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Hi all,

I'm taking over a site that has some redirect issues that need addressed and I want to make sure this is done right the first time.

The problem: Our current setup starts with us allowing both non-www and www pages. I'll address this with a proper rewrite so all pages will have www.

Server info:  IIS and runs PHP.

The real concern is that we currently run a browser detection for language at the root and then do a 302 redirect to /en, /ge or /fr. There is no page at the www.matchware.com. It's an immediate redirect to a language folder.

I'd like to get these to a 301(Permanent) redirect but I'm not sure if a URL can have a 301 redirect that can go to 3 different locations.

The site is huge and a site overhaul is not an option anytime soon.

Our home page uses this:

<%
lang = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE")
real_lang = Left(lang,2)
'Response.Write real_lang
Select case real_lang
    case "en" 
        Response.Redirect "/en"
    case "fr"
        Response.Redirect "/fr"
    case "de"
        Response.Redirect "/ge"
    case else
        Response.Redirect "/en"

End Select
%>

Here is a header response test.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

HTTP Request Header

Connect to 87.54.60.174 on port 80 ... ok

GET / HTTP/1.1[CRLF]
Host: www.matchware.com[CRLF]
Connection: close[CRLF]
User-Agent: Web-sniffer/1.0.37 (+http://web-sniffer.net/)[CRLF]
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,UTF-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7[CRLF]
Cache-Control: no-cache[CRLF]
Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3[CRLF]
Referer: http://web-sniffer.net/[CRLF]
[CRLF]

HTTP Response Header

Content (0.12 <acronym title="KibiByte = 1024 Byte">KiB</acronym>)

<title></span>Object moved<span class="tag"></title>
 # Object Moved This object may be found  <a< span="">HREF="/ge">here.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

To sum it up, I know a 302 is a bad option, but I don't know if 
a 301 is a real option for us since it can be redirected to 1 of 3 
pages?

Any suggestions?</a<>

I don't think you're file is going to the right place.

Default theme has a screenshot here:

http://blog.seoherts.co.uk/wp-content/themes/twentyten/screenshot.png

Your theme should have the screenshot here:

http://blog.seoherts.co.uk/wp-content/themes/ubiquity/screenshot.png

But, there's nothing, and I checked the style.css. It's not there either.

Please check your directory structure again. Also, when you upload a template through the wp-admin, you upload the ubiquity.zip file. WP will unpack it as it should if your folder permissions are ok.

Hope that helps,

Vince

Your sitemap.xml looks fine, but like Tim said, submit it using Google Webmaster Tools.

Also, add it to your robots.txt file.  Add a new line:

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: http://wwww.jparizonaweddingvideos.com/sitemap.xml

You also asked about which 30x redirect to use. I'm also looking for this answer. We currently an ASP header redirect. I don't think this is best, but I'm not sure a 301 redirect can be used. I'd like to hear from others too.

This is what we have now:

lang = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE")
real_lang = Left(lang,2)
'Response.Write real_lang
Select case real_lang
    case "en" 
        Response.Redirect "/en"
    case "fr"
        Response.Redirect "/fr"
    case "de"
        Response.Redirect "/ge"
    case else
        Response.Redirect "/en"

End Select

They automatically redirect people in the uk who type in www.google.com to www.google.co.uk

But, this is different from changing language on a visitor. I'm not sure what google would do if I was in Italy and used my american laptop to visit google.com. I don't think they'd switch me to www.google.it, but maybe someone else has this answer.

Using the browser language settings has worked well for us.

Hi Daminao,

I do a redirect based on browser language.  I'd stay away from IP/location based redirects. You can have English vistors in Italian locations that would be lost on your pages.

hth,

Vince

Hi all,

I'm taking over a site that has some redirect issues that need addressed and I want to make sure this is done right the first time.

The problem: Our current setup starts with us allowing both non-www and www pages. I'll address this with a proper rewrite so all pages will have www.

Server info:  IIS and runs PHP.

The real concern is that we currently run a browser detection for language at the root and then do a 302 redirect to /en, /ge or /fr. There is no page at the www.matchware.com. It's an immediate redirect to a language folder.

I'd like to get these to a 301(Permanent) redirect but I'm not sure if a URL can have a 301 redirect that can go to 3 different locations.

The site is huge and a site overhaul is not an option anytime soon.

Our home page uses this:

<%
lang = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE")
real_lang = Left(lang,2)
'Response.Write real_lang
Select case real_lang
    case "en" 
        Response.Redirect "/en"
    case "fr"
        Response.Redirect "/fr"
    case "de"
        Response.Redirect "/ge"
    case else
        Response.Redirect "/en"

End Select
%>

Here is a header response test.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

HTTP Request Header

Connect to 87.54.60.174 on port 80 ... ok

GET / HTTP/1.1[CRLF]
Host: www.matchware.com[CRLF]
Connection: close[CRLF]
User-Agent: Web-sniffer/1.0.37 (+http://web-sniffer.net/)[CRLF]
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,UTF-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7[CRLF]
Cache-Control: no-cache[CRLF]
Accept-Language: de,en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3[CRLF]
Referer: http://web-sniffer.net/[CRLF]
[CRLF]

HTTP Response Header

Content (0.12 <acronym title="KibiByte = 1024 Byte">KiB</acronym>)

<title></span>Object moved<span class="tag"></title>
 # Object Moved This object may be found  <a< span="">HREF="/ge">here.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

To sum it up, I know a 302 is a bad option, but I don't know if 
a 301 is a real option for us since it can be redirected to 1 of 3 
pages?

Any suggestions?</a<>

Hi Daminao,

I do a redirect based on browser language.  I'd stay away from IP/location based redirects. You can have English vistors in Italian locations that would be lost on your pages.

hth,

Vince