I've been reading everything I can on the web about SEO and yesterday I learned something new and it sounds important but I don't know how to do anything about it. In a casual comment made in a news letter it mentions that MSN Office sites are redirects and you can do something to get rid of that ?Label? by changing a 302 code to 301. OK I don't have a clue about code...yet. Is there an idot's gide to tell me how I change this 302 to a 301. I don't even know how to access the code to change it. Help!

Honestly, I don't know a thing about "MSN Office Sites" but if you'll paste your url into the form field here http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp it'll tell you what's returned from the headers (301, 302, 200..) and what type of server you're on (if you don't know)

I'd guess because it's MSN it'll be a Windows server so if it returns a 302 you'd have to do the redirect on the server (if you have access) or have a component installed that will let you modify it through an external file.

If it's an Apace server copy/paste code for your .htaccess file is easily found.

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Doing a 301 (AKA Permenant redirect") is easy if you can edit your .htaccess file.

Simply type the following in your htaccess file (where webpage1.html is the initial page and webpage2.html is where you want to redirect it to):

It really is simple as that. Remember, though, whenever you edit your .htaccess file - or upload it via ftp - it MUST be ascii and not binary.

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You first need to find out how to gain access to alter code then come visit us and we can walk you through the change to a 301 redirect.