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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!

 

 

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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!

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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.

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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. =)

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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

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