301 redirect

[sesertin]

What is a proper way to redirect any url containing a give word (anywhere in the url) to another sepcified url? Is it like this?

RedirectMatch 301 ^thisword$ http://domain.com/newlocation

[SimonCullum]

Hi Zsolt

You'll find a blog post here on SEOmoz really useful, entitled "URL Rewrites and 301 Redirects - How Does It All Work" by Jennifer Sable Lopez (SEOmoz Staff).

There is a section on the '301 Redirect process', you may also find the first section 'URL Rewrites' helpful.

There are some useful links within, depending on whether you're using Apache or IIS.  The reason for the redirect and your technical environment will determine the most appropriate way.

RedirectMatch 301 /folder/filename.php http://www.domain.com/newlocation

is probably what you're after anyway going by your example in your question.

Also some really helpful information at http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

Hope that helps,

Regards

Simon

[sesertin]

Not exactly what I was looking for but thanks for the feedback anywy

[SimonCullum]

Ok, as I'd like to help, just looking at your exact question then:

Is it like this?

RedirectMatch 301 ^thisword$ http://domain.com/newlocation

My answer was:

**RedirectMatch 301 /folder/filename.php http://www.domain.com/newlocation** 

is probably what you're after anyway going by your example in your question.

which seems to answer the question asked, just provided a lot more information to help further.

If that's not what you're after, could you rephrase the question so that you can get the help you are after?

Regards

Simon

```

[ShaMenz]

Hi Zsolt,

Just so we understand exactly what you are asking here ...

What you are wanting to do is permanently redirect any and all URLs containing "thisword" to a single URL on the same domain? Is that accurate?

Sha

[sesertin]

I'm looking for a method to redirect any urls containing a certain variable. I have  a scorable element on my site and each time a new score is added a new url is generated like domain.com/xyz?score=5 or domain.com/score=4&rew=22. These are all alternates of my main page abd I would like to redirect them there. In the end found something when clicking through from Jennifer's post but I'm still not quite sure.

[sesertin]

You got it right

[sesertin]

I think it should be something like

Redirectmatch 301 /.*thisword.``* http://domain.com

Maybe but I am not sure, would be grateful for feedback

[ShaMenz]

Hi again,

We set up an example page for you with working tests and links to example code and zipped version.

Hope that is what you need,

Sha

[AlanMosley]

the ^ symbol means the begins with, the $ means ends with

so ^thisword$ means the URL must be a exact match "thisword"

try simply thisword

[sesertin]

Thank  you a lot for your help, very much appriciated

[sesertin]

Thanks, Alan. Not really like that, as my url contains additional characters both in the front and at the end of the word. By the way the links you sent me on the topic were great I am just having some hard time to understand them, they are a bit chinese to me, as I have no basics at all writing htaccess.

[AlanMosley]

Did you try it, it works for me.

Just try simply thisword

it should match aaaathiswordaaaaa

this will work,

[a-z]thisword [a-z]

but so will

thisword

[sesertin]

still not working for me.

The exact url is domain.com/?score=4&rew=25   (there are some more versions of course with different counters)

I want to redirect all urls like this to domain.com

tried:

RedirectMatch 301 /[a-z]score[a-z] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /.score. http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /^score$.* http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 /.^score$.* http://domain.com

none of them woks

[AlanMosley]

i work on microsoft servers, so i am not sure about the sytax of htaccess.

but the regex is the same.

please try these.

RedirectMatch 301 [a-z]score[a-z] http://domain.com
RedirectMatch 301 score http://domain.com

you missed the *

[sesertin]

Still not working for me. I tried further with:

RedirectMatch 301 [.]score[.] http://domain.com  (I thought a-z stands just for letter and urls contain number and marks)
RedirectMatch 301 [.]score[.] http://domain.com

neither works

[AlanMosley]

You are correct, give me a munite and ill get back to you

[AlanMosley]

try [a-z,0-9]score[a-z,0-9]

[AlanMosley]

[a-z,0-9,=,&]alan[a-z,0-9,=,&]

get the idea

[AlanMosley]

Here this will select your whole url

[a-z,0-9,=&?/.]score[a-z,0-9,=&]