301 old non-sef urls to new ones?

17 years 2 months ago #189 by mergemedia
I read somewhere that SEFadvance will 301 old, non-SEO-friendly URLs to the new ones automatically.  Example:

user comes in on domain.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=9 , the URL is 301 redirected to the new SEO friendly url, which would eliminate duplicate content indexing at the search engines.

Am I correct about the 301 redirect?  am I doing something wrong?

My site will give a 200 OK to the same content item, whether it's requested via the old url string, or the new SEF url string.

thanks for the help :)

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17 years 2 months ago #190 by Saka
No, it will redirect OLD SEF links to NEW SEF links.
For example:
domain.com/option,com_content/task,view/id,4/Itemid,9/
will be redirected to
domain.com/section/category/article/

Accessing non-sef URLs will not be affected.

Emir Sakic
www.sakic.net

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17 years 2 months ago #191 by mergemedia
ah, I see.  Any way to rewrite the non SEF urls too?  I notice googlebots crawling them a lot.

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17 years 2 months ago #192 by Saka
Not by SEF Advance.
You could put some custom code in index.php to do it but that's outside the scope of SEF Advance support.

Emir Sakic
www.sakic.net

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17 years 2 months ago #195 by mergemedia
indeed.  perhaps this thread would be better suited in the 'custom coding jobs' category?  would this be something you would be interested in doing?

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17 years 2 months ago #197 by Saka

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