301 Redirect for mis-spelled potential and better PageRank
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So what happens if someone mis-spells your subdomain url or directory? Will they still make it to your website?
If they link to you will you get the PageRank benefit (ergo the Google vote tallied for the link)?
No, you will not. Unless . . .
You set up a 301 Redirect to send the surfers to the right subdomain or directory. Plus, the 301 Redirect will also allow Google to follow the wrong link to the right place and give you a backlink vote helping your PageRank tally by another link!
Here’s an example with a site belonging to a friend of mine, Skeet.
I noticed as I was manually typing her url into my address bar she has a double ’ss’ between skeets and stuff for skeetsstuff in the url http://skeetsstuff.skeeterbess.com . I typed only one ’s’ the first time and got a 404 page. That’s bad for readers and bad for Google. (not real real bad, but it doesn’t help
If she updates here .htacccess file to redirect from the mis-spelled domain of skeetstuff.skeeterbess.com over to skeetsstuff.skeeterbess.com then all the people like me that get confused with the double s or just fat key the keyboard, will still end up in the right spot.
Better yet GoogleBot will end up in the right spot and give Skeet the benefit of the backlink count!
Here’s a quick article on How to create a 301 redirect with your .htaccess file.
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