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Tested and all working!

Thanks for that.

All done now, fingers crossed!

Richard

Got one.

This is the content - not certain that's what I need?

redirect permanent /index.html http://www.global-lingo.com/index.php

BEGIN WordPress

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>

END WordPress

That's what I want to do. But I can't be sure I have the right file. There are .htaccess files in a few folders

Thanks for bearing with me Matthew

Ok now I'm stuck again!

I have the list, in the right format, thanks to Matthew.

I can see where to upload the file, but now I'm worried that it will replace all my existing redirects. From the WordPress site I can't see where I can export all the existing redirects so that I could at least add my new ones to the existing ones and upload a new file.

Any ideas guys?

Brilliant, thanks Matthew

Hi Matthew,

Sorry, pretty nervous now!

Here's what I have in the columns

A = http://www.global-lingo.com/news/2009/12/news-internet-translations/

B = http://www.global-lingo.com/blog/

C = redirect 301 http://www.global-lingo.com/news/2009/12/news-internet-translations/ http://www.global-lingo.com/blog/

I think I got a little lost with the full URL in column A. What should I remove? Or have a got it correct? Sorry to use the real URL I just want to make sure I get this correct.

Thanks

Richard

Hi Matthew,

That is the perfect answer, thank you so much. Just creating the file was where I was getting stuck and knowing what to put in the columns.

what I have at the moment is:

Column A = 404 url

Column B = URL I want

That solution is perfect, I'm more than happy using that!

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the quick response. That's why I'm being very careful. I have used the re-direction tool but as there are quite a lot to do I was looking for some way to create one big file and then upload rather than copy and paste nearly 300 entries

Some of the pages are ranking for terms I have optimised other pages for. The pages which are ranking are quite rightly falling, because they aren't optimised for the terms they're showing for. However, I have pages which are optomised for those terms. How do I switch the SERPS to the page I want?

Very interesting. Looks like they should pass some link juice then. Thanks for the information.

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