Hey guys,

I'm just in the process of shrinking down three of our product pages into one.

In this instance, it was just a matter of us having too much to show on one page in the format we were display products. I've changed it so it fits and looks a lot better.

My question is this...I have my-page.asp, my-page2.asp and my-page3.asp

Should I be adding some form of redirect on the 2 & 3 pages that will no longer be valid? Should I just delete them and all links to them and pretend they don't exist?

I was thinking of doing a 301 redirect, but the page I would be sending their 'ranking' to actually ranks much better than either of the second or third page.

Sooooo...what would be the best approach here? My instinct tells me to just remove the pages and move on but I don't want to make any decisions that may hurt me without at least asking first.

Thanks in advance.

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Use a 301 for pages 2 & 3 to page 1. With the 301 you're just sending visitors and bots to where they should be for those products and you'll conserve any of the page rank that those pages had.

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That won't have any negative effect on the page rank of the page 1?

Just concerned that sending the PR of those two pages to the first page would actually lower it's PR.

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3 glass of water... you empty 2 of them in the third one... did the 3rd lose water or it has more of it ?

Thank you dilligaf and Jocelyn,

Actually, I was facing the same problem.
Can any one of you explain me how to do this 301 redirect, pls.
Thank You

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On an apache server you can use "manager redirects" in Cpanel so you don't have to mess around editing the .htaccess file.

In asp, there's a couple of lines of code that you can add to each page, you can do it on the server or in the httpd.ini file if you have the rewrite component installed.

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OK, thanks guys...sorry for being a little bit slow on the uptake there, it had been a long day.

As for the actual redirect...I don't know much about the httpd.ini or rewrite component...but what I use is just the following on each specific page

<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.shearcomfort.com/Camo-Seat-Covers.asp"
%>

Hope that's helpful amitd

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That looks like ASP in which case your probably not using Apache anyway. Your close, this is what I user for 301's in ASP
Response.StatusCode = 301
Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader("Location", url)

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