301 Dilemma
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Hi Everyone,
I have written new content for a product page and at the same time put it on a different URL:
The previous URL was something like this:
example.com/brand/type/product (PR4) So all in all this is an easy enough 301, however, we also have a shop page for this product:
example.com/shop/brand/type/product_shoppage.php (PR4) Should I also do a 301 from this page to the new page?: example.com/product
Can you have two 301 redirects like what I am proposing?
Kind Regards,
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Hi Gary,
If the two pages are identical (or close to identical), you could add a canonical link element to one of them as an alternative. Just choose the one that you wish to be seen as the preferred page and add the code in the HEAD of the other to identify it. Here is an example of the code you might use to identify your new page as the preferred page:
Hope that helps,
Sha
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Yes you can, but if you have 10 or 20 then search engines will start to ignore them and may not assign value. but 2 you will be fine.
make sure you 301 direcly to the final page in one hop, dont redirect from one to the other and then to the final page.
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