I have done a lot of this for one of CF Webtools customers where we needed to redirect/reindex old pages for SEO lately and in the process I learned a few new tricks.
This link covers a way to help get the search engine to reindex the new link http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/canonical-link-tag/ About the only other thing you can do here for the end use is to use a META redirect. The above will tell search engines that the link is old and index the new one. The META redirect will get the end users to the correct page. <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=http://newlink.com/";> Wil Genovese Sr. Web Application Developer/ Systems Administrator CF Webtools www.cfwebtools.com [email protected] www.trunkful.com On May 5, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Chris Bracciano wrote: > > Hello all- > I have a rather strange request. I have old web pages that Google is still > finding links for so I want to utilize this power. These old links have new > equivalents. The problem is, the old links are so old that they are .htm > files. My site is now CF8 hosted. Doing a simple 301 redirect is proving > quite difficult. > > The complications: > I am on a shared server, so I don't have access to .htaccess. That option is > gone for a redirect. I tried to put <cflocation> tags on the old links, but > because they are .htm files, the server won't execute the <cflocation> tags. > I asked the server to tell CF to process all .htm extensions as .cfm, but > they can't do this because it's a shared server and it could cause problems. > > So, I tried to put the following code in my application.cfm file. > > <cfif #CGI.SCRIPT_NAME# EQ "old-page.htm"> > <cflocation url="new-page.cfm" addToken="yes" statusCode="301"></cfif> > > However, this doesn't seem to be working either. I think because the old > links are .htm files, application.cfm isn't even running when I attempt to go > to the old links and test the code. > > Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. > -Chris > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:344276 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
