Redirect pages' appropriateness for SEO

[mgc]

Hi,
I've been reading quite a bit about SEO, and have come across some warnings to stay away from redirecting pages.

I'm wondering about my .co.uk page that is specific to that market, but then points all traffic to my .com site for the remainder of the visitors site vist. Does anyone see any problems with SEs or Directories, as long as I don't try to get a separate directory listing for the .co.uk URL?

Any feedback is welcome. Thanks!
mgc

[srikanthsh]

How is the redirection done? 301 redirection(Redirecting while returning 301 status code to the user-agent) is safe.

[mgc]

Originally posted by srikanthsh
How is the redirection done? 301 redirection(Redirecting while returning 301 status code to the user-agent) is safe.

I'm not certain, but my IT guys have just told me that we're on an IIS server and he thinks that 301 redirect can only be done on Apache servers. Is this correct?

[srikanthsh]

If you own the server,

a) Create another website in the IIS for .co.uk domain name.
b) Then right click on the website folder.
c) select properties
d) under the virtual directory tab, select 'a redirection to a URL'
e) enter the URL.
f) check 'the exact URL entered above', 'a permanant redirection to this resource' check boxes.
g) 'Apply'. then 'Ok'

Done.

If you are not the Admin, and if you own another server space for .co.uk domain name- You could drop a default page like default.asp/index.asp at the root. In that default file, use the following script ,

<%
response.status = "301 Moved Permanently"
response.addheader "Location", "yourdotcomURL"
response.end
%>

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