Request a 3rd party to change the URL to your site or 302 redirect it?

[NaescentAdam]

Hi,

My new site design for small hope went live about 3 months ago and I changed the URL structure. I'm kind of new to the SEO game, but I've done quite a bit of research, successfully implemented all the 301s I need and tested them and everything is working fine.

But I'm having a little trouble with this propagating through Google et al. Most of the advice is to sit tight and wait but I want to be a little more proactive.

So even though the 301s are in place, can I ALSO send emails to our partners and request link changes?

Would Google find this suspicious behaviour and penalise us?

Thanks,

Adam

[Cornel_Ilea]

HI Adam,

Sending emails to your partners to changes their links is just a natural process after a 301 redirect.

No, Google wont find that spammy and it will increase your link juice, rankings etc.

Cornel

[NaescentAdam]

Superb, I thought so but I'd recently heard otherwise but I thought I'd double check.

Thanks for the quick reply!

Adam