I’ve been using the cheap ass HTML redirect way for my ‘Top 100 OS X Apps’ for ages now, I really need to get with the right way of doing the redirect – the 301.

The best way to redirect those pages is by using something called a “301 Redirect”. What this 301 redirect does, is it blatantly redirects to a different page when it is triggered, what makes the 301 redirect the best, is that not only does it accomplish your redirect, it does it safely, no having to worry about the search engines penalizing you for it! To be specific, the 301 redirect tells the browser, or in other cases, it tells the search engines “Hey this page has been moved, here is the correct URL!”.

This is basic stuff which a lot of us don’t do right, usually through the need for speed, I’ll revisit my pages and my servers htaccess file and get this all sorted. The link takes you through how you should be doing a redirect:

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