Hello,
How do I get Google to rank a website that has a 301 redirect on it.
I have seen other websites where the owner has the .com and .net. The .net just redirects to the .com. But the .net ranks in google. When the user clicks the link for the .net in google it goes through to the .com.
I was thinking of having a microsite but if I can rank with a 301 redirect this is probably the best option?
Thanks.
That would be the case where the .net has had content, but the site has changed to use the .com address. The old .net links will continue to appear in search results until Google updates its index. (If the redirect is not correctly done as a 301 redirect, indicating it’s permanent, Google may continue to show these links indefinitely, which is not very helpful to anyone. If your change is permanent, make sure you mark the redirect as permanent.)
OK
In terms of developing the (redirected) website in the future.
Is it better to use a permanent redirect? Or is it better to use a microsite which can be developed?
If I use a permanent redirect and then choose to develop it then will this be problematic compared with a microsite?
Hasn’t this question been answered in several of your earlier posts @MatthewBOnline?
Do not think I have asked about microsite compared with permanent 301 redirect.
Sorry, but I don’t understand what you’re asking here.
You use a 301 redirect when you want one URL to always redirect to a different URL. I’m not sure what you mean by a “microsite”, or how that relates to redirecting. If you’re asking whether it’s better to develop websites on both domains, then I would say almost certainly not, but it would depend on exactly what you have in mind.
Yes - I may develop both sites in the future and rank both the .org and .net.
I am guessing Google will see no problems ranking similar (not identical content) on the same domain with different extensions (.net and .org).
That’s true - but your sites will be competing against each other. I’d think this through very carefully before you go down this route.
I’m a bit confused.
The topic title is misleading or the discussion has changed focus?
If are talking about two (or possibly more) sites that have different TLDs that are not redirecting to one site but are active sites, search engines will see them as different sites.
In addition to the problem of them competing with each other, be very careful to
make sure they don’t link to each other.
Unless you make sure they are all nofollow that could be interpreted as a link scheme and result in neither of them appearing in SERPs
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