301 redirect question

I have a website with a couple thousand pageloads a week and
a google rank of 5.

I have set up a blog on the same server in a directory and
now want to move the blog to the domain name and have the traffic
and the rank go to the blog rather than the website.

Some say do 301 redirect.

Some say just move your blog index.php.

Some say erase the WWW.domain redirect, leave THAT as the
website and use the NO-WWW.domain for the blog?



Any advice on this please?



RJ

301 redirect question
On 5/5/07 4:21 PM, ''rack22'' wrote:



%26gt; I have a website with a couple thousand pageloads a week
and a google rank of

%26gt; 5.

%26gt; I have set up a blog on the same server in a directory
and now want to move

%26gt; the blog to the domain name and have the traffic and the
rank go to the blog

%26gt; rather than the website.

%26gt; Some say do 301 redirect.

%26gt; Some say just move your blog index.php.



Based on this, it sounds like the website is going away, and
the blog is

moving from example.com/blog/ to example.com



If that's the case, yes, do a 301 from example.com/blog/ to
example.com





%26gt; Some say erase the WWW.domain redirect, leave THAT as
the website and use the

%26gt; NO-WWW.domain for the blog?



If the website is going away, why is this being considered?



If you want to keep the website active, then you *could* keep
the website at

www.example.com, and have the blog at example.com. I think it
would tend to

confuse things though.



People are inconsistent about entering the www, and they're
inconsistent

about including it when linking to you. If you do this,
you'll get people

wanting to link to the website but they link to just
example.com and they'll

be linking to the blog instead. And vice versa. So I wouldn't
recommend

doing it that way.



If you want to keep the website and blog both active, and
keep the website

at www.example.com, perhaps you might want to put the blog at

blog.example.com. If you do that, then you'll want to 301
from

example.com/blog/ to blog.example.com



--

Sonjay







301 redirect question
Thanx Sonjay!



The website is not going under, it is important, but the blog
is more important regards bringing in search results. I want the
arrival to the blog and then go to the website if they want.



I tested the 301 htaccess and it worked fine, page rank
carried over and worked instantly. But I had not figured that about
1000 links and graphic pointers are now wrong! :) Not quite sure
what to do about that.

I have most everything for the website in the root and quite
a bit of the blog there too, I suppose I could move most everything
in the root to domain/blog/?

rackjite.com is my domain, and serendipity is the director
the blog is in.



So I though I would try the PHP redirect in the index.htm
file.

%26lt;?php

header( 'Location: http:/rackjite.com/serendipity/' ) ;

?%26gt;

I tried that with the index.php and no slash and so forth
with no luck. I put it at tippity top as required and it doesnt do
anything at all. I do not know if this is a good way of doing it
but I did want to see what actually happened. If the page rank went
with it?

I also wonder about putting the blog index.php into the root
and what would happen. Does it still default to index.htm? if there
is a index.php.



My firend with the WWW suggestion has always been a bit weird
about WWW. He is a WWW advocate of sorts and I dont really know
what the point is, but it is colored by his prejudice for using
WWW.



Im confused on how best to do this.



One other thing to ponder, the webpage has a grank of 5 and
the blog even now has google rank of 4, how important is that
difference?



I have quite a few links out there to the domain, perhpas I
could just ask for new links under the blog name and hope they will
add that too? Been around long enough to know that wont work very
well though... :)



thanx again



RJ