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Old 2004-05-04, 06:34 PM   #4
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Originally posted by DangerDave
Lee,
As long as you move the page as it is... and dont change it too much till its re-spidered in its new home, you can do an htaccess permanent redirect.
This shows the SE spiders that the page has moved to a new home and that the original no longer exists..
it aslo catches any stray traffic coming via the old url
DD
DD - If I wanted to do this to hundreds of pages and I couldn't wait too long before updating them - what would you suggest please?
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