The only way to redirect safely with regards to search engine optimization is to use an 301 Redirect.
Why? 301 keeps the value and weight of the referring page. Robots, like Google, love it. If you are going to delete a page, consider redirecting it using a 301 redirect.
Many webmasters will say that pagerank is just a number, many will argue. Well, literally speaking, page rank is a number
. Especially with the recent page rank update (or penalization as many think) of October 2007, the discussions of page rank have been at an all time high. The fact remains that page rank is an algorythm - nothing else. It is not manually altered and is entirely calculated based upon many factors of which we dont know all the details of - only Google do.
There are hundreds of different procedures regarding search engine optimisation to ensure you get good organic search engine results in search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN. This post however, is designed to put the important and key factors of search engine optimisation into a nutshell.
Using this tool will enable you to view all the links along with the pageranks on the page that you require to view.
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This tool helps you determine if the redirect you have created is Search Engine Friendly.
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