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Hi all,

I posted the thread in Jan. and got many responses and I am very appreciated
to those contributors.

Here is my update. After read all suggestions, comments and instructions.
I think use 404 page redirect the users to the new page is doable. But I
believe that I need to brand that redirect with 301 response:
so I replaced the original
Response.Redirect x 'x is new web page addrress
with the following code

Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", x

After that I used http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
to check header information by entering an old page and it did redirect me
to a new page, but I expected that the header informaiton should look like
this: HTTP Status Code - 301 Moved Permanently
But acutally I got the result like this:
HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 200 OK

Did I do anything wrong? What's the best place to put custom 404 page?
My testing server is on the intranet, does that matter?

Thank you.

--
Betty

Hi Betty,

From your description, you use the following page to track the httpheader
of the response of your 404 redirect page but found that no 301 status(you
set) returned, correct?

http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

I've searched for some other articles on 404 page redirection(SEO approach)
and the code you used below should be correct:

>Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
>Response.AddHeader "Location", x

I've also performed test on my local side. I used the "Trace Utility" in
SoapToolkit 3(a tool that can capture http messages) and found that the 301
status does return at first(when the redirect.asp send the redirect header
back), then, the send request(to the new location) will bring back the 200
status. I think this is the behavior you expect, correct? I'm wondering
whether it is the above "headers.asp" page that may not return the correct
headers(or it only return the last page's headers and omit any intermediate
redirection ones).

Please feel free to let me know if there is anything I omited.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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>From: =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?= <>
>Subject: Update to redirect search engine highly ranked page
>Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:02:04 -0800

>
>Hi all,
>
>I posted the thread in Jan. and got many responses and I am very
appreciated
>to those contributors.
>
>Here is my update. After read all suggestions, comments and instructions.
>I think use 404 page redirect the users to the new page is doable. But I
>believe that I need to brand that redirect with 301 response:
>so I replaced the original
> Response.Redirect x 'x is new web page addrress
>with the following code
>
>Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
>Response.AddHeader "Location", x
>
>After that I used http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
>to check header information by entering an old page and it did redirect me
>to a new page, but I expected that the header informaiton should look like
>this: HTTP Status Code - 301 Moved Permanently
>But acutally I got the result like this:
>HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>
>Did I do anything wrong? What's the best place to put custom 404 page?
>My testing server is on the intranet, does that matter?
>
>Thank you.
>
>--
>Betty
>

Thanks, Steven, for being so thorough.
It's nice you have a trace tool for getting intermediate response status.
I just wish I could download somewhere if there is any free version
--
Betty


""Steven Cheng"" wrote:

> Hi Betty,
>
> From your description, you use the following page to track the httpheader
> of the response of your 404 redirect page but found that no 301 status(you
> set) returned, correct?
>
> http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
>
> I've searched for some other articles on 404 page redirection(SEO approach)
> and the code you used below should be correct:
>
> >Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
> >Response.AddHeader "Location", x
>
> I've also performed test on my local side. I used the "Trace Utility" in
> SoapToolkit 3(a tool that can capture http messages) and found that the 301
> status does return at first(when the redirect.asp send the redirect header
> back), then, the send request(to the new location) will bring back the 200
> status. I think this is the behavior you expect, correct? I'm wondering
> whether it is the above "headers.asp" page that may not return the correct
> headers(or it only return the last page's headers and omit any intermediate
> redirection ones).
>
> Please feel free to let me know if there is anything I omited.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Steven Cheng
>
> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
>
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> --------------------
> >From: =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?= <>
> >Subject: Update to redirect search engine highly ranked page
> >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:02:04 -0800
>
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I posted the thread in Jan. and got many responses and I am very
> appreciated
> >to those contributors.
> >
> >Here is my update. After read all suggestions, comments and instructions.
> >I think use 404 page redirect the users to the new page is doable. But I
> >believe that I need to brand that redirect with 301 response:
> >so I replaced the original
> > Response.Redirect x 'x is new web page addrress
> >with the following code
> >
> >Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
> >Response.AddHeader "Location", x
> >
> >After that I used http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
> >to check header information by entering an old page and it did redirect me
> >to a new page, but I expected that the header informaiton should look like
> >this: HTTP Status Code - 301 Moved Permanently
> >But acutally I got the result like this:
> >HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> >
> >Did I do anything wrong? What's the best place to put custom 404 page?
> >My testing server is on the intranet, does that matter?
> >
> >Thank you.
> >
> >--
> >Betty
> >
>
>

Hi Betty,

Yes, the SoapToolkit is a free package suite, however, since it is mainly
used for legacy VB based webservice dev(which is not recommended and
supported now), I don't quite recommend you install it(I just installed it
previously and be used to using the Trace utility in it ).

For http trace, you can consider the following web browser add-on
components:

#fiddler for IE
http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/help/hookup.asp

#Web Development Helper
http://www.nikhilk.net/Project.WebDevHelper.aspx

Both of them are very good for capture and analyize http commucations in
webbrowser.


Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

--------------------
>From: =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?= <>
>References: <CC81DBCC-4E77-464B-9C1E->
<>
>Subject: RE: Update to redirect search engine highly ranked page
>Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:46:02 -0800

>
>Thanks, Steven, for being so thorough.
>It's nice you have a trace tool for getting intermediate response status.
>I just wish I could download somewhere if there is any free version
>--
>Betty
>
>
>""Steven Cheng"" wrote:
>
>> Hi Betty,
>>
>> From your description, you use the following page to track the
httpheader
>> of the response of your 404 redirect page but found that no 301
status(you
>> set) returned, correct?
>>
>> http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
>>
>> I've searched for some other articles on 404 page redirection(SEO
approach)
>> and the code you used below should be correct:
>>
>> >Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
>> >Response.AddHeader "Location", x
>>
>> I've also performed test on my local side. I used the "Trace Utility" in
>> SoapToolkit 3(a tool that can capture http messages) and found that the
301
>> status does return at first(when the redirect.asp send the redirect
header
>> back), then, the send request(to the new location) will bring back the
200
>> status. I think this is the behavior you expect, correct? I'm
wondering
>> whether it is the above "headers.asp" page that may not return the
correct
>> headers(or it only return the last page's headers and omit any
intermediate
>> redirection ones).
>>
>> Please feel free to let me know if there is anything I omited.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Steven Cheng
>>
>> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
>>
>>
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>>
>> --------------------
>> >From: =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?= <>
>> >Subject: Update to redirect search engine highly ranked page
>> >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:02:04 -0800
>>
>> >
>> >Hi all,
>> >
>> >I posted the thread in Jan. and got many responses and I am very
>> appreciated
>> >to those contributors.
>> >
>> >Here is my update. After read all suggestions, comments and
instructions.
>> >I think use 404 page redirect the users to the new page is doable. But
I
>> >believe that I need to brand that redirect with 301 response:
>> >so I replaced the original
>> > Response.Redirect x 'x is new web page addrress
>> >with the following code
>> >
>> >Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
>> >Response.AddHeader "Location", x
>> >
>> >After that I used http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
>> >to check header information by entering an old page and it did redirect
me
>> >to a new page, but I expected that the header informaiton should look
like
>> >this: HTTP Status Code - 301 Moved Permanently
>> >But acutally I got the result like this:
>> >HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>> >
>> >Did I do anything wrong? What's the best place to put custom 404 page?
>> >My testing server is on the intranet, does that matter?
>> >
>> >Thank you.
>> >
>> >--
>> >Betty
>> >
>>
>>
>

Steven,

Good stuff. I will defintely benefit from it.

Thank you so much.
--
Betty


""Steven Cheng"" wrote:

> Hi Betty,
>
> Yes, the SoapToolkit is a free package suite, however, since it is mainly
> used for legacy VB based webservice dev(which is not recommended and
> supported now), I don't quite recommend you install it(I just installed it
> previously and be used to using the Trace utility in it ).
>
> For http trace, you can consider the following web browser add-on
> components:
>
> #fiddler for IE
> http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/help/hookup.asp
>
> #Web Development Helper
> http://www.nikhilk.net/Project.WebDevHelper.aspx
>
> Both of them are very good for capture and analyize http commucations in
> webbrowser.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Steven Cheng
>
> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
>
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>
> --------------------
> >From: =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?= <>
> >References: <CC81DBCC-4E77-464B-9C1E->
> <>
> >Subject: RE: Update to redirect search engine highly ranked page
> >Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:46:02 -0800
>
> >
> >Thanks, Steven, for being so thorough.
> >It's nice you have a trace tool for getting intermediate response status.
> >I just wish I could download somewhere if there is any free version
> >--
> >Betty
> >
> >
> >""Steven Cheng"" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Betty,
> >>
> >> From your description, you use the following page to track the
> httpheader
> >> of the response of your 404 redirect page but found that no 301
> status(you
> >> set) returned, correct?
> >>
> >> http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
> >>
> >> I've searched for some other articles on 404 page redirection(SEO
> approach)
> >> and the code you used below should be correct:
> >>
> >> >Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
> >> >Response.AddHeader "Location", x
> >>
> >> I've also performed test on my local side. I used the "Trace Utility" in
> >> SoapToolkit 3(a tool that can capture http messages) and found that the
> 301
> >> status does return at first(when the redirect.asp send the redirect
> header
> >> back), then, the send request(to the new location) will bring back the
> 200
> >> status. I think this is the behavior you expect, correct? I'm
> wondering
> >> whether it is the above "headers.asp" page that may not return the
> correct
> >> headers(or it only return the last page's headers and omit any
> intermediate
> >> redirection ones).
> >>
> >> Please feel free to let me know if there is anything I omited.
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> Steven Cheng
> >>
> >> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
> >>
> >>
> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
> >>
> >> --------------------
> >> >From: =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?= <>
> >> >Subject: Update to redirect search engine highly ranked page
> >> >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:02:04 -0800
> >>
> >> >
> >> >Hi all,
> >> >
> >> >I posted the thread in Jan. and got many responses and I am very
> >> appreciated
> >> >to those contributors.
> >> >
> >> >Here is my update. After read all suggestions, comments and
> instructions.
> >> >I think use 404 page redirect the users to the new page is doable. But
> I
> >> >believe that I need to brand that redirect with 301 response:
> >> >so I replaced the original
> >> > Response.Redirect x 'x is new web page addrress
> >> >with the following code
> >> >
> >> >Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
> >> >Response.AddHeader "Location", x
> >> >
> >> >After that I used http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
> >> >to check header information by entering an old page and it did redirect
> me
> >> >to a new page, but I expected that the header informaiton should look
> like
> >> >this: HTTP Status Code - 301 Moved Permanently
> >> >But acutally I got the result like this:
> >> >HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> >> >
> >> >Did I do anything wrong? What's the best place to put custom 404 page?
> >> >My testing server is on the intranet, does that matter?
> >> >
> >> >Thank you.
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >Betty
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>

You're welcome

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

--------------------
>From: =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?= <>
>References: <CC81DBCC-4E77-464B-9C1E->
<>
<0E72A26D-D7F9-482B-BA0C->
<>
>Subject: RE: Update to redirect search engine highly ranked page
>Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:56:03 -0800

>
>Steven,
>
>Good stuff. I will defintely benefit from it.
>
>Thank you so much.
>--
>Betty
>
>
>""Steven Cheng"" wrote:
>
>> Hi Betty,
>>
>> Yes, the SoapToolkit is a free package suite, however, since it is
mainly
>> used for legacy VB based webservice dev(which is not recommended and
>> supported now), I don't quite recommend you install it(I just installed
it
>> previously and be used to using the Trace utility in it ).
>>
>> For http trace, you can consider the following web browser add-on
>> components:
>>
>> #fiddler for IE
>> http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler/help/hookup.asp
>>
>> #Web Development Helper
>> http://www.nikhilk.net/Project.WebDevHelper.aspx
>>
>> Both of them are very good for capture and analyize http commucations in
>> webbrowser.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>>
>> Steven Cheng
>>
>> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
>>
>>
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
>>
>> --------------------
>> >From: =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?= <>
>> >References: <CC81DBCC-4E77-464B-9C1E->
>> <>
>> >Subject: RE: Update to redirect search engine highly ranked page
>> >Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:46:02 -0800
>>
>> >
>> >Thanks, Steven, for being so thorough.
>> >It's nice you have a trace tool for getting intermediate response
status.
>> >I just wish I could download somewhere if there is any free version
>> >--
>> >Betty
>> >
>> >
>> >""Steven Cheng"" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Betty,
>> >>
>> >> From your description, you use the following page to track the
>> httpheader
>> >> of the response of your 404 redirect page but found that no 301
>> status(you
>> >> set) returned, correct?
>> >>
>> >> http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
>> >>
>> >> I've searched for some other articles on 404 page redirection(SEO
>> approach)
>> >> and the code you used below should be correct:
>> >>
>> >> >Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
>> >> >Response.AddHeader "Location", x
>> >>
>> >> I've also performed test on my local side. I used the "Trace Utility"
in
>> >> SoapToolkit 3(a tool that can capture http messages) and found that
the
>> 301
>> >> status does return at first(when the redirect.asp send the redirect
>> header
>> >> back), then, the send request(to the new location) will bring back
the
>> 200
>> >> status. I think this is the behavior you expect, correct? I'm
>> wondering
>> >> whether it is the above "headers.asp" page that may not return the
>> correct
>> >> headers(or it only return the last page's headers and omit any
>> intermediate
>> >> redirection ones).
>> >>
>> >> Please feel free to let me know if there is anything I omited.
>> >>
>> >> Sincerely,
>> >>
>> >> Steven Cheng
>> >>
>> >> Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> >>
>> >> --------------------
>> >> >From: =?Utf-8?B?YzY3NjIyOA==?= <>
>> >> >Subject: Update to redirect search engine highly ranked page
>> >> >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:02:04 -0800
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >Hi all,
>> >> >
>> >> >I posted the thread in Jan. and got many responses and I am very
>> >> appreciated
>> >> >to those contributors.
>> >> >
>> >> >Here is my update. After read all suggestions, comments and
>> instructions.
>> >> >I think use 404 page redirect the users to the new page is doable.
But
>> I
>> >> >believe that I need to brand that redirect with 301 response:
>> >> >so I replaced the original
>> >> > Response.Redirect x 'x is new web page addrress
>> >> >with the following code
>> >> >
>> >> >Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
>> >> >Response.AddHeader "Location", x
>> >> >
>> >> >After that I used http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp
>> >> >to check header information by entering an old page and it did
redirect
>> me
>> >> >to a new page, but I expected that the header informaiton should
look
>> like
>> >> >this: HTTP Status Code - 301 Moved Permanently
>> >> >But acutally I got the result like this:
>> >> >HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
>> >> >
>> >> >Did I do anything wrong? What's the best place to put custom 404
page?
>> >> >My testing server is on the intranet, does that matter?
>> >> >
>> >> >Thank you.
>> >> >
>> >> >--
>> >> >Betty
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
>