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I am changing the category structure. There are some categories that I will remove. They are already indexed in search engines with PR. How do I redirect those pages to the new categories that I will create?
I thought may be creating the same category pages with no content and redirect code... remove the categories from admin... then place those pages directly on the server ??
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I use Eval UrlMapper (Ewal.UrlMapper) and redirect categories after changes out of web.config: something like <entry pattern="(?<basedir>.*?)/games/party/(?<id>.*?)\.aspx" target="{basedir}/Games/Party-Games/{id}.aspx" type="redirect"/> Corneliu. |
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Can you access IIS on the server?
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Thank you. I am not familiar with that. I am little hesitant making changes to webconfig. I played with it before and it caused one day downtime and no sleep :-) I have like 20 categories that will be changed... along with their sub-categories. Is this the only way to do it?
Anymore ideas or suggestions?
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You can purchase siteDirector from nc software. You can google siteDirector to find the product online. I have used it on my site since 2004 with no issues. It supports 301 "Permanently Moved" and 302 "Temporarily Moved" server responses. You can setup your redirects to work with or without a log of requests for the deleted page. Easy to setup and easy to use.
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siteDirector has a TON of overhead and poor support. It should handle 20 links though. We use ISAPI_Rewrite for all these things. It handles the whole server, it's simple to use and it does a whole lot more than sitedirector with a substantially lower server impact. It's made by www.helicontech.com |
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Thank you for the advise. I m looking at them and will give it a try.
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these solutions seem over complex to me. you don't need to buy anything.
I just create real folders and aspx files on the server to match the categories and products that have been removed from the site and use the google-approved 301 redirect to redirect to the new version of the category or product page.
Here's an example of a redirector file is placed in /shop/catalog/category1/category1a.aspx which redirects to the new page for the category
<%@ Page Language="VB" %> <script language="vb" runat="server"> Sub Page_Load(Source As Object, E as EventArgs) Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently" Response.AddHeader("location", "New-Page.aspx") End Sub </script> <html> <head> <title>Page Redirector</title> </head> <body> <p>You should have been automatically redirected to the new page for this category or product. If you have not, please <a href="New-Page.aspx">click here</a> to be redirected.</p> </body> </html>
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Originally Posted by: "Noah" siteDirector has a TON of overhead and poor support. It should handle 20 links though. We use ISAPI_Rewrite for all these things. It handles the whole server, it's simple to use and it does a whole lot more than sitedirector with a substantially lower server impact. It's made by www.helicontech.com BINGO! Have your host install the ISAPI rewrite... I am doing the same as you right now as I type (well im typing here so not literaly lol). I'm 302 redirecting my old cats to the new ones. Easy to do. OR Just move over to resposio... Noah will take care of ya.
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