301 Redirect

[Paul78]

Need a little bit of help on this one.

I have a product page which actually has 3 products on the page in question:

www.example.com/products

I thought it would be best for each product to have a page on its own:

www.example.com/product-1

www.example.com/product-2

www.example.com/product-3

however my question is:

The page with the 3 products www.example.com/products where should the 301 go to?

Can you do a 301 to all the new product pages?

Hope that makes sense

Kind Regards,

[NeilTompkins]

You can only do a 301 redirect to 1 page.  I'd pick the best performing product out of the 3 and redirect it to that one.

[Paul78]

Hi Neil,

Yes, sorry, when reading the post back, it just not make sense Can you do a 301 to all the new product pages?

Thanks for that, I was thinking to do it that way, probably makes sense.

[stevecounsell]

Hi,

It kinda depends on where the search is starting and where you want the users to end up.

Getting your 301 redirect to sort out where the user should be (product1 , 2 or 3) may well be possible. Is that what you actually want?

From the question I am assuming that you want to move the 3 product page (single page) to multiple 1 product pages.

If this is the way you want it to be there could be a way to create a 301 redirect to push url/anchor to the correct page.

Are you now duplicating the content in your 3 product page and the individual pages?

[AlanMosley]

Wjhat would be better, is make 2 new pages and keep one product on the old page, this way you would lose anything with the 301 redirect.

[Paul78]

Hi thanks for the quick reply.

The new pages will have unique content written for these pages for SEO purposes, that's one of the reasons I am doing this, however with the example.com/products page having a high PR, i thought it would be best taking advantage of this and using a 301, however after thinking about it a bit more, I think i actually might keep this page plus add the other product pages to help the keywords SERPs