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If youre changing say hot_sexy_babes.html to hotsexybabes.html how do you do it without getting penalized by google for duplicate content?

Do you:

(1) Delete the first and let it 404 and just link from your site to the second.

(2) Have both on your domain but just link to the second so google doesnt index the first when the indexing happens but only indexes the second.

(3) Something else?

from what i understand, no it won't get penalized

i would guess with a 301 permanent redirect, as long as nothing has been changed with page rank hijacking

Use 301 redirect from old page to new page. It will give two benefits. 1) Avoid duplicate content penalty. 2) Pass the link popularity (and PageRank) of older page to new one.

And of course don't forget to replace old links with new link, though its not necessary in the presence of 301 redirect, but recommended.

Quick questions:

(1) How do you do a 301 redirect from old page to new page? How is it done?

(2) What you say replace old links with new link, what do you mean? The old links are the ones which i would be 301 redirecting to the new page so why does the old page need replacing? Eventually when the new pages are indexed, ill just delete the old pages.

Add this line of code in your .htaccess.

Remember to use old file/folder name or path without http://www.domain.com and new file/folder name and path with http://www.domain.com

I guess, i don't need to mention that you should upload your .htaccess in ASCII mode. It is very important.

When I say replace old links, I mean removing all links to old-page.html from your website and replacing it to new-page.html

Also, you can delete old pages right after you done setting up 301 redirect.

Vick,

Thanks for this..... very appreciated. Ive done that and it works!

One last question:

(1) I get people to link to my domain.com (without www.) Now if i want to get PR only on domain.com is there a way to use htaccess so that everything www.domain.com ends up at domain.com ??? (including all the PR)

you are welcome dude..

Use this code in .htaccess

changing hot_sexy_babes.html to hotsexybabes.html is pointless, you just changed one thing to another and they both are exactly the same in the search engines eyes

if you wanna change something, change hot_sexy_babes.html to hot-sexy-babes.html

in searchenginise, hot_sexy_babes is one full thing, underscores are characters, but hypens are spaces

What?

Are you saying that hyphens could rank better than underscores??

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

500 dollars epass

and I will help you

Search engines, now a days, are smart enough to pick keywords from the URL even if you have used underscores. They can even pick and bold the "teacher" and "sex" from firstsexwithteacherblahblah.html if you search for "teacher sex", without quotes.

Hyphens (dashes) are just recommended by most SEOs over underscores. Have a look at Dashes vs Underscores

what a fucking idiot you are, who the fuck qualified you to give advice on seo? you are one stupid ignorant tranny fucking motherfucker.

shit, that was harsh :(

Indeed.... he convinced me to buy a gun and carry it at all times.

Can someone comment on whether this htaccess code is right?
Or have i added something or missed something out?


RewriteEngine On
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://domain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.domain.com
RewriteRule .*[Jj][Pp][Gg]$|.*[Gg][Ii][Ff]$ http://www.domain.com/index.html [L]
#domain.com/index.html - your custom hotlinker page

ErrorDocument 404 http://domain.com
DirectoryIndex index.html

why even change it?

hot_sexy_babes

is better for the engines anyhow.

The application he wants to use it for doesnt matter, he just wanted to know how to do such a change.

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dashes-vs-underscores/

301 redirect is the solution to this..