301 Redirects- Help!

photowinz

Long story short - I need help creating 301 redirects from URL's on my site BEFORE I changed the "Nice Name". My SEO results have plummeted as a result of the changed URL name and Redirecting will help Google find me. Is there a way to do this??

Go to my site: http://www.kevinwinzeler.com

My main domain is the same, but when you look at "Portfolios" I've changed those names. If there is a way to create a 301 redirect, do you know how I can see my prior URL names because I do not have them all saved. Is there a snapshot back in time so to speak that can be pulled any way.

Thank you!

gluwater

photowinz wrote:

Long story short - I need help creating 301 redirects from URL's on my site BEFORE I changed the "Nice Name". My SEO results have plummeted as a result of the changed URL name and Redirecting will help Google find me. Is there a way to do this??

Go to my Photography site: http://www.kevinwinzeler.com

My main domain is the same, but when you look at "Portfolios" I've changed those names. If there is a way to create a 301 redirect, do you know how I can see my prior URL names because I do not have them all saved. Is there a snapshot back in time so to speak that can be pulled any way.

Thank you!

Hi Kevin,
I'm sorry but you cannot use 301 redirects on your site. You may be able to find what your galleries were named before you changed them in the Way back Machine: http://www.archive.org/index.php. Give that a try and see if you can find what you're looking for.

Your images are incredible. Hopefully you'll be able to get your SEO results back up. If I can help in any way please let me know.

I did notice that you're not using any keywords.

photowinz

gluwater wrote:

Hi Kevin,
I'm sorry but you cannot use 301 redirects on your site. You may be able to find what your galleries were named before you changed them in the Way back Machine: http://www.archive.org/index.php. Give that a try and see if you can find what you're looking for.

Your images are incredible. Hopefully you'll be able to get your SEO results back up. If I can help in any way please let me know.

I did notice that you're not using any keywords.

Hey Nick,

1) I'm not sure how that tool works. Do I put the current domain in and it will give me the old one? If so, then it doesn't look like that will work. Please advise.

2) Can I build an XML sitemap - http://www.xml-sitemaps.com. and upload it to my site through the webmaster tools?

3) Do I have the ability to set-up custom meta tags for a smugmug page? If so, how?


4) Lastly, what did you mean by "you're not using any keywords"?


Thanks!

gluwater

photowinz wrote:

Hey Nick,

1) I'm not sure how that tool works. Do I put the current domain in and it will give me the old one? If so, then it doesn't look like that will work. Please advise.

2) Can I build an XML sitemap - http://www.xml-sitemaps.com. and upload it to my site through the webmaster tools?

3) Do I have the ability to set-up custom meta tags for a smugmug page? If so, how?

4) Lastly, what did you mean by "you're not using any keywords"?

Thanks!

1) I looked up your site in the way back machine and you're right, it isn't going to work for you.

2) You cannot upload a sitemap to your SmugMug account.

3) You cannot set up custom meta tags for your page. Please take a look here for what you can do: http://www.smugmug.com/help/search-engines.

4) Sorry about that, I meant to delete that line from my initial post. You just had your keywords hidden.