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I'm actually using 2.5.

I will take a look at the module but for my own piece of mind, I would like to understand how to use Redirectmatch\RewriteRule better.

Thanks

Stefan

I think I'm starting to loss my mind.

I have worked with regex before with very little problems how with my redirects nothing appears to be working. A little guidance is needed!

The Low down

I have a site with Joomla CMS backend.

The site is undergoing and SEO overhaul

I was simple hoping to use a 301 redirect o these old pages that are now a causing 404's

The addresses

/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=53_blank

/shop/product.php?id_product=11

I have tried the following redirects but no avail

RedirectMatch 301 ^/shop/product.php?id_product=11$ http://www.nomitang.com/index.php/en/vm_getaway_w this does not work at all

if I remove the ?.....ending then I can simply redirect the product page but this is not what we need.

Why does RedirectMatch not register anything after the "?"?

I also tried this

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=53_blank [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.nomitang.com/ [R=301,L]

But this also didn't work.

Please could someone tell me how to redirect these url's and how to deal with the extrension

Thanks

Stefan

Thanks for the suggestion I was hoping for something a bit more substantial. I suppose I was wondering how the Big Boys in the industry achieve usability test. I once read that Tesco spent some 40000 GBP on usability where would a corp that size get its focus group? Not that I have that kind of budget.

My question is twofold; firstly is there a recommended company that I could use to get feedback on my site usability. Ideally I would like this company to arrange a focus group of a couple hundred people that fit into the right demographic and organise a report on the opinions of the group and the issues faced.

Secondly an in-house understanding of usability

Now I would like to think that when I review a site for usability I am not biased in any way. But I believe that if I look at the page that I have created or even collaborated on that I will always miss usability issues as I frankly think my/our creation is amazing. I'm interested to know how people rank and check their site usability and what factors rank highest in their assessments i.e. the tools you use and how you use them.

If you keep the two sites separate would you will be penalized by Google for having duplicate content? if this is the case how should you deal with this?

How do I start to target a national audiences? I currently get most of my hits from The US and Australia? But I see no reason why I don't get vies in Canada and The UK.