Redirecting for page rank

[mikey]

I recently updated a website to REW. One of the pages had page rank and ended in .htm

Should I make a special page for redirecting customers, leave it the way it is or?

Here's the link: http://www.hawaiihomes1.com/kahala.htm

Thanks, Mike

[ericbramlett]

You need to catalog all the old pages that were indexed by google & redirect them to the appropriate .php pages on your new site. You only have 3 pages you need to do this to. I ran this search to find them.

The easiest way to redirect the pages is to create or update your .htaccess file. You can do this in notepad or any other text editor.

[mikey]

That's great, thanks Eric?

Now, what do I do with/where do I put the .htaccess file?

[John Allen]

Mike,

Eric's advice is spot on. Make sure you do a 301 permanent redirect, not a 302. Any link juice your old page had will then be passed to the new page.

You have a REW site so I would recommend you have them do this update. It should only take 15 minutes or so of time and you will know it is done right.

[mikey]

You guys are great! I made a work order and referenced it to this thread.

Aloha, Mike