[Hidden-tech] Permanent redirect okay?

[Gyepi SAM]

Hi Claudia,

The short answer is that a redirect will not harm your seo, at
least with Google, according to their docs. One issue you may need
to deal with: for permanent redirects, the source and target urls need
to match whereas urls for temporary redirects don't. If your source domain
has a markedly different url structure, then temporary redirects would make
more sense.

Other than that, Google's crawlers handle both kinds of redirects similarly.
Only the redirect target domain will appear in search results.

However, if you wanted both domains to appear in search results then
I would recommend hosting both domains on the same server
and serving the same content. Which may or may not have implications
from a branding perspective, but that's not a technical issue ;)

Regards

-Gyepi

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 04:31:05PM -0400, Claudia Gere wrote:
> I own the url ClaudiaGere.com and wonder whether
> making a permanent redirect ("301 Moved Permanently" HTTP)  of
> ClaudiaGere.com to ClaudiaGereCo.com is going to harm my seo, or are there
> any downsides to a permanent redirect.(i.e., can I reverse it if I change my
> mind in the years to come). I don't want to maintain two sites. Thanks for
> your feedback. Thank you for your help, Claudia