Should /node/ URLs be 301 redirect to Clean URLs

[MargaritaS]

Hi All!

We are in the process of migrating to Drupal and I know that I want to block any instance of /node/ URLs with my robots.txt file to prevent search engines from indexing them.

My question is, should we set 301 redirects on the /node/ versions of the URLs to redirect to their corresponding "clean" URL, or should the robots.txt blocking and canonical link element be enough?

My gut tells me to ask for the 301 redirects, but I just want to hear additional opinions.

Thank you!

MS

[Schwaab]

I would look into installing a module called Global Redirect.  It should take care of this problem for you.  I used to work exclusively in Drupal and made sure this was installed on every site.

https://drupal.org/project/globalredirect

http://developerkarma.com/2008/04/22/step-step-guide-installing-drupal-module-global-redirect.html

[MargaritaS]

This is perfect! Thank you so much.