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  • James 251 posts 1169 karma points
    Jan 12, 2016 @ 19:20
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    Redirecting to first child

    Hello all,

    Quick question sort of weighted towards SEO.

    If i have a website that has sections within it like:

    Section

    • about

    • cool stuff

    • more cool stuff

    But instead of section being a page it is simply just a node that houses content pages below it.

    So what i do is create a controller that hijacks the section document type and redirects to the first child. That way if http://mysite.com/section is browsed to it will go to: http://mysite.com/about.

    If i ensure in the HTML sitemap + xml sitemap i exclude document types of 'section' is there any other negative impact to having this in place?

    technically http://mysite.com/section exists but surely it wont be indexed or such?

    cheers,

    james

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  • Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib
    Jan 12, 2016 @ 19:31
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    Hi James,

    One way that you can do it is using the umbracoredirect property alias

    https://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/umbraco-best-practices/umbracoredirect/ but be aware that it creates a 302 redirect.

    Maybe you could use the 301 redirect tracker, with the package you can create your own redirects. https://our.umbraco.org/projects/developer-tools/301-url-tracker

    Hope this helps,

    /Dennis

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  • James 251 posts 1169 karma points
    Jan 12, 2016 @ 19:39
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    Hi Dennis,

    So are you saying it is important to have a 301 redirect in this situation?

    simply hijacking the document type and redirect to first child isnt enough, there must be a status code?

    cheers,

    james.

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  • Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib
    Jan 12, 2016 @ 20:03
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    Hi James

    I always think that it´s important to have 301 redirects regarding to SEO https://www.ltnow.com/difference-301-302-redirects-seo/ and https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-advice-discussing-302-redirects/

    But I must say that I am not a SEO expert.

    /Dennis

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  • Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib
    Jan 12, 2016 @ 19:39
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    Perhaps you also should have a look at this package https://our.umbraco.org/projects/backoffice-extensions/permanent-redirect/ developed by Peter Gregory.

    /Dennis

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  • Jesper Hauge 298 posts 487 karma points c-trib
    Jan 13, 2016 @ 00:26
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    You could also check the approach in this article by Jeroen Breuer

    http://24days.in/umbraco/2014/urlprovider-and-contentfinder/

    Jeroen uses a combination of an URL-provider and a content finder to do something similar, advantage being that there is no redirects or duplicate content involved.

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