jacksdad Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 *** edited and added *** HELP. Still have problem. see my posts at the end of this thread. My redirect from an old missing page that has not spaces in it works, but the redirect I am trying to use for "buyers guide.htm" does not. I want a redirect for the missing page (and others that had spaces) because they are indexed in google. Any ideas to make the redirect work? THANKS! *** original post below *** help! I originally uploaded a few pages to our site that have a space in the name. Google indexed them. I am now told that this is a problem, so have replaced the space with a hyphen. I see the c-panel allows me to do a redirect, which I did, but it doesn't seem to be working! The website uses Frontpage if that matters. Here's one of the now missing pages: www.pinnacledisplays.com/buyers guide.htm The new page is: www.pinnacledisplays.com/buyers-guide.htm The redirect automatically changed the original name to buyers%20guide.htm I went and typed in the original url, but I got page not found, not a redirect. HELP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaJill Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 %20 is the character encoding for a space; there's no way around that -it's the only way for browsers to read it. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Dick Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 Is the page "buyers guide.htm" still there or did you remove it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 I get a little confused (nothing new though ) but if http://pinnacledisplays.com/buyers-guide.htm is what you want it called, its working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted May 21, 2004 Author Share Posted May 21, 2004 my new page with the hyphen works. unfortunately, google has indexed my old page: www.pinnacledisplays.com/buyers%20guide.htm which is no longer there since I replaced it with the new hyphenated one. The redirect I set in the c-panel doesn't work. The old address still gives a page not found. Help? BTW, 3 very fast replies! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted May 21, 2004 Author Share Posted May 21, 2004 here's the info from cPanel Add Redirect page Current Redirects /buyers%20guide.htm http://www.pinnacledisplays.com/buyers-guide.htm (permanent) Any guesses as to why its not working???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted May 21, 2004 Author Share Posted May 21, 2004 update: I just tried to redirect another page without any spaces to my home page, and the redirect worked. Must be the spaces! But how can I get the redirect to work??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted May 22, 2004 Author Share Posted May 22, 2004 BUMP. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaJill Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 I believe this is one of the many reasons not to use spaces in URL's =/ The only thing that I can suggest is to find a javascript redirect and place it on the page with the space in it's name. Then when people hit that page it will redirect them. There is a simple one at CodeAve Hope that helps. =) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted May 22, 2004 Author Share Posted May 22, 2004 Lisa, I will not use spaces in my urls in the future! (I,m going to write this on the chalk board 100 times). I would like to use a 301 redirect because google says it is ok. Meta-refresh redirects (?) are spammy, so I have been told to avoid them. Any opinions if the java redirect you are suggesting would be considered spammy and be penalized? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaJill Posted May 22, 2004 Share Posted May 22, 2004 Google won't follow javascript redirects; I don't think it *can*. So I can't answer your question as to how it would consider it - I believe it would probably simply ignore it. But this is a guess (that's my version of a disclaimer *grins*) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.