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CarolineS's avatar
CarolineS
Boss
7 years ago

SEO impact of redirecting from / to a top-level category

Hi ya'll!   Leveraging top-level categories, we're going to launch a second branded community soon on our single Lithium instance.   All traffic that previously went to / (https://community.merak...
RahulA's avatar
RahulA
Khoros Alumni (Retired)

I've done a quick test on couple of our existing communities and http.response.setRedirectUrl is setting the response code to 302. I believe that it should be feasible to change the status code to 301 if you want to using the http.response.setRedirectStatus option.

 

References:

https://community.lithium.com/t5/Developer-Knowledge-Base/Using-a-FreeMarker-Page-Initialization-Script/ta-p/125767

https://community.lithium.com/t5/Developer-Documentation/bd-p/dev-doc-portal?section=freemarker#l::%7B%22p%22:%22%2Frefer%2FcontextObjects%22,%22h%22:%22%23httpResponse%22%7D

CarolineS's avatar
CarolineS
Boss
7 years ago

Thanks so much, RahulA! I actually launched this redirect last week, so I'll check how my traffic to the home page is looking and will adjust the redirect type if it's looking sad.