{"id":4397,"date":"2021-06-30T12:08:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/googles-help-guide-on-redirects-and-google-search-updated-349993\/"},"modified":"2021-06-30T12:08:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T12:08:13","slug":"googles-help-guide-on-redirects-and-google-search-updated-349993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/googles-help-guide-on-redirects-and-google-search-updated-349993\/","title":{"rendered":"Google's help guide on redirects and Google Search updated"},"content":{"rendered":"
Google said it has “significantly expanded” the help guide it has for how Google Search handles various forms on redirects. The redirects and Google Search help document<\/a> use to be a few paragraphs long, but now it goes into much greater detail.<\/p>\n What is new. <\/strong>The old page had general advice on the importance of using server-side 301 redirects when communicating to Google Search that a page has moved. It also linked to some guides on how to set up those redirects on Apache and NGINX servers. That was the bulk of it; for comparison, here’s a screenshot of the old page<\/a>.<\/p>\n Google has expanded this document to include much more robust sections on why redirects are important and how they are handled for each type of redirect. This includes:<\/p>\n\n
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