Hi folks --
One of my clients has asked if the store can do 301 redirects for discontinued products and categories. I've been doing a little reading, and it looks to me like Miva Script can't do a 301, because that requires modifying the status code that the server sends back to the browser. Is that correct?
In that case, I'm looking for other solutions. For shoppers using old URLs, it's easy enough to keep a table of old product codes, and then display the corresponding new product by having a system-ex module that alters the value of g.Screen. But that's no help with the search engines. For them, I can put canonical links on the pages; would that work as well as a 301?
Also, there's the possibility of redirecting the browser with a meta-tag instead of a 301. But I wonder what the search engines would make of that?
Any recommendations? Thanks --
One of my clients has asked if the store can do 301 redirects for discontinued products and categories. I've been doing a little reading, and it looks to me like Miva Script can't do a 301, because that requires modifying the status code that the server sends back to the browser. Is that correct?
In that case, I'm looking for other solutions. For shoppers using old URLs, it's easy enough to keep a table of old product codes, and then display the corresponding new product by having a system-ex module that alters the value of g.Screen. But that's no help with the search engines. For them, I can put canonical links on the pages; would that work as well as a 301?
Also, there's the possibility of redirecting the browser with a meta-tag instead of a 301. But I wonder what the search engines would make of that?
Any recommendations? Thanks --
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