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	Manually 301 obsolete categories

Solution If you're renaming/moving popular categories with URL rewriting, this will change the URL potentially leading to a loss in search engine ranking and some customers coming through to invalid links for a while.

The software doesn't have any features to handle this, but manual redirects can be handled by adding such code into the products.asp. This requires both knowledge of the url rewritten and non url rewritten linking methods.

<%
if request.servervariables("QUERY_STRING") = "category=old+category&subcategory=old+subcategory" then
' Permanent redirection
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", session("path_info") & "pcp/New_Category.html"
Response.End
elseif request.servervariables("QUERY_STRING") = "category=old_category&subcategory=old_subcategory" then
' Permanent redirection
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", session("path_info") & "pcp/New_Subcategory"
Response.End
end if
%>

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Article ID:

114

Created On:

13 Oct 2009 10:22 AM