Question about Hm Pg Redirects

[poolguy]

This question is for MichaelC who was helping me with a previous question that is now closed.  Please refer to my question with Subject "Double 301 Redirect"

It was about redirecting /home.aspx to simply "/" because that was an old URL and we have some backlinks pointing to it.

If the best I could do is redirect "/home.aspx" to something like "#hm", would that work, since everything after the hash symbol is ignored?

Thanks

Clint

[StalkerB]

Until MichaelC shows up

Sounds reasonable, I would also put a canonical tag on it saying the / is the official page.

What might also be an option is to put a parameter on like ?hm (if possible) and in Webmaster Tools - Site Configuration > Settings > Parameter Handling you can tell them to ignore the ?hm. However I'm not sure how well that works and I would have the canonical in there as well.