Re: Handling Redirects + SEO

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Mandy, how would the directive know whether to look on microsite or
mainsite to find the requested page without making inefficient
requests?  Think carefully about what you're trying to do here:  why
have two sites at all if you only want users to access one of them?

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Mandy Singh <mandys@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like some help in understanding how redirects work.
>
> I have a main site www.mainsite.com and a microsite www.microsite.com.
>
> All my rankings should be determined by mainsite.com.
>
> However, we didn't think about it earlier and now microsite.com and
> mainsite.com have divided traffic and hence rankings are lower.
>
> We want to consolidate the two.
>
> I know about 301 redirects and ideally I could have done -
>
>     RewriteEngine ON
>     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mainsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]
>
> So, www.microsite.com/about/index.php would go to
> www.mainsite.com/about/index.php and my rankings would be accounted for as
> its a permanent redirect.
>
> However, this would mean I need to move all my pages "physically" from
> microsite to mainsite.
>
> Is there another alternative wherein I keep all my pages on microsite (still
> have same directory structure) but call them using mainsite.com domain?
>
> Am I making sense?
>
> Let me know.
>
> Thanks.
>

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