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Amazing, thanks for the information and the attached article. It's more than useful.

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Most of the traffic is from organic and craigslist. Some of the original pages were redirected over 3 years ago, so removing them now won't be a problem.

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Well if the internet was a static entity than leaving the original urls in place is an option. The original urls were optimized using the guidelines of the day ... today, however, they would be considered spam ... hence the change. At least the 404 page gets them back to the site.

Appreciate your input.

Our site has been updated twice in the past 6 years with new, better urls.

Initially we did 301 redirects 3 years ago for the url redirects.

Recently some of those redirected pages have been redirected again.

Question: How long before it's time to have the old, original urls removed through Google?

And, once that is done, how long to wait before removing the older redirects from the htaccess file?

Appreciate any feedback/insights on this matter.

Good advice.

Still think mobilegeddon is going to hit big and soon.

Glad for this brief transition before Google makes good on their promise.

We are working on quotes for other companies that don't understand the possible repercussions of upgrading to responsive site, even though their business is already impacted by refusal to use and work with the tools Google supplies to optimize their site.

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Appreciate your feedback.

Working at a fast clip to get entire site launched by 5.21

Prefer working assembly line vs. section by section or page by page.

Noticing a slight downturn from Google, just enough to keep me motivated.

The majority of the competition in our niche still needs to go responsive, but no longer looking back to see if they are catching up.

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We are having an issue about when to upload newly converted pages to website.

By going responsive we are basically going with a new layout, different look entirely.

I think it's best to wait until every page in the site has been transferred over to the new layout. Partially because some urls are being updated too, and the look is different enough that it may look like half the site got hi-jacked.

My partner thinks rolling out/uploading each page as it is complete is the way to go.

Need input on pros and cons of either method.

Since 2007 the best keywords for a good rank in seo have changed.

In some cases we have changed urls to maintain a good ranking.

That was 2 years ago ... and now we see we need to upgrade the keyword phrase we use and are thinking about changing the urls once again to keep our ranking.

It seems absurd to have a redirect for your redirected page.

Are there different ways to approach updating your keyword phrases without the 301 redirect?

For example, it has been 2 years since we did a 301 redirect on a group of our pages. Are we better off having the original url deleted (which has been up since '07) or is it better to redirect the original page and the redirected page to the newest page?

We already incorporate the updated keyword phrase changes into our titles, images and body copy to reflect the changes.

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The 404 error code we put into htaccess files for our websites does not work correctly for our https site.

We recently changed one of our http sites to https.

When we went to create a 404.html page for it by creating an htaccess folder with the 404 error code in it, once we uploaded the file all of our webpages were displaying incorrectly, as if the css was not attached.

The 404 code we used works successfully for our other 404.html pages for our other sites (www.telfordinc.com/404.html). However, it does not work for the https site.

Below is the 404 error code we are using for our https site (currently not uploaded until pages display correctly)

ErrorDocument 404 /404-error.html

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www.)?privatemoneyhardmoneyloan.com/.*$ [NC] RewriteRule .(gif|jpg|js|css)$ - [F]

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.privatemoneyhardmoneyloan.com$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.privatemoneyhardmoneyloan.com/$1 [R=301,L]

So we want to know if there is a different 404 error code that goes into the htaccess file for an https vs. http?

Appreciate your feedback on this issue

Appreciate your pointing out the spamminess of the description. All of the page description are being revised.

Well if the internet was a static entity than leaving the original urls in place is an option. The original urls were optimized using the guidelines of the day ... today, however, they would be considered spam ... hence the change. At least the 404 page gets them back to the site.

Appreciate your input.

Problem fixed