Best Practice on SEO for redirect site

[ms4u]

Hi,

I got a site was redirect from homepage to a sub-folder:

xxyyzz >> http://www.xxyyzz.com/directory

What is the best SEO practice/way to do the above redirect? Should I using permanent (301) or temporary (302) redirect? My root/homepage have no any index file

Thanks

 

[temi]

Permanent 301 redirect is the best way, OWG did a post on this issue a while back, dig it out and read it

 

[johnafrankllin]

For SEO prospective a 301 redirect is the best option in this way the search engine will consider that you have permanently moved your contents to that new location and new location will get the credit of all your old location.
regards
John

 

[b-first]

301 redirect is always good

 

[aathuls]

301 redirect is quite simple in the seo sites. It's a best method to preserve your current search engine rankings when redirecting web pages or a website.

 

[Handsome34]

301 redirect is always good and simple

 

[stanneon]

301 redirecting is the best suits for redirecting sites... you can have all your previous ranking to your new website.

 

[YooHee]

I agree with you guys....

301 redirecting will do better

 

[Element]

Two ways...

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] DirectoryIndex in .htaccess

or 301 redirect.

The 301 is meant to do what you need to do...so, that makes the most sense.

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