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SEO Tip #137: When I Change Domains How Long Should I Leave the Redirects In Place?

Posted by ajohnson in: Search Engine Tips
SEO Tip #137: When I Change Domains How Long Should I Leave the Redirects In Place?

Matt Cutts: This is something where search engines can change their policies over time because we might see the web evolving or we might see how webmasters have issues or those sorts of things. I can tell you about my experience from moving MattCutts.com to Dullest.com and then Dullest.com back to MattCutts.com. Whenever I decided to move back I used a 301 redirect and it took a period of several weeks
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SEO Tip #28: Does anchor text carry through 301 redirects?

Posted by ajohnson in: Search Engine Tips
SEO Tip #28: Does anchor text carry through 301 redirects?

Matt Cutts: Typically anchor text does flow through 301 redirects, but we don’t promise that that will always happen. So the question is does it carry through all? Not necessarily. We reserve the right to score not only in links and how we determine the weights and the trusts for links and also the trust we have for redirects. I can tell you that if your sole method of link building
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