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Google Search Console Change of Address tool adds redirect validation & reminder

Google announced two new features to the Change of Address tool within Google Search Console. These new features include redirect validation for top five URLs of the moving domain and a reminder at the top of both the moving domain and the destination domain within Google Search Console. Redirect validation. Google added redirect validation for […]

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What is a 301 Redirect, and When Should You Use One?

SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

I moved five times in the last year. And every single time I moved, I forgot to sign up to have my mail forwarded to my new address. Mail forwarding is an important step in any moving process, as it ensures you don’t lose any valuable information that’s sent to you. And the same can

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REAL Established Website for Sale URL Shortener Redirect, Subscription Autopilot

Websites & Businesses for Sale / Good To SEO

Item specifics Type: Website REAL Established Website for Sale URL Shortener Redirect, Subscription Autopilot Price : 99.00 Ends on : View on eBay websites businesses for sale

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Google Answers: Safe to Redirect Affiliate Links?

SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

In a Google Webmaster Hangout, Google’s John Mueller answered if redirecting affiliate links was a bad practice. He answered the question then offered what he felt was a better way to deal with affiliate links. Affiliate Links and Advertising Affiliate links are basically performance based advertising. A publisher is paid when a user clicks an

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Google Maps displaying redirect notice alerts when users click on business website URLs

SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

For approximately five days now, if a searcher tries to click your website URL within your Google Maps listing, they will receive a “redirect notice” from Google. The notice reads: “The previous page is sending you to [the URL you clicked on],” and then adds, “If you do not want to visit that page, you

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Can You Reverse A 301 Redirect?

SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Posted by Dr-Pete The short answer is “yes.” You can reverse a 301-redirect, even though it’s technically permanent. The long answer, though, is that this change may not work the way you’d expect or hope, and it could even make your problems worse. Let’s explore the long answer with four real-world scenarios … First: A

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Most SEOs Say Redirect When Pruning Old Content

SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Cyrus Shepard posted a poll on Twitter asking SEOs what is better to do when pruning old content, to 301 redirect or 404 the page. That is if the page cannot be updated to have better content, what do you do? Either (a) Noindex/Remove (noindex, 404, 410) or (b) 301 Redirect to a relevant, better

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Google Pops the Redirect Link Building Trick

SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Google’s John Mueller offered insights about how Google treats a popular black hat link building trick. His answer deflated the benefits of the strategy and also gave insights into how Google’s algorithm treats redirected links. 301 Redirect Link Building The strategy consists of buying a new domain, building links to that domain, then redirecting all

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301 redirect all your 404s to your homepage • Yoast

404 Errors, technical seo / Good To SEO

Joost de Valk Joost de Valk is the founder and CEO of Yoast. He’s a WordPress / Web developer, SEO and an Open Source fanatic. Sometimes I encounter new “SEO hacks” that people apply, that are actually anti-patterns. One of these new anti-patterns I noticed is the pattern of 301 redirecting all your 404 pages

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Google to redirect old Search Console reports to new ones Dec. 13

SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

As we reported last month, Google is sunsetting some reports within the old Google Search Console. Google announced that many of these reports will redirect from the old to the new Google Search Console on December 13. What is changing? The old Google Search Console is somewhat redundant to the new Google Search Console, and

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