Hey Gang,

Whiteboard Friday time again and, since Rand is once again out of town, I've enlisted yet another Mozzer to take his place. This week, developer extraordinaire, Jeff Pollard, takes us on a brief tutorial of the wild and crazy world of 301 redirects.  We get a lot of questions about how and when to use these tremendously valuable little buggers, so we thought it's be a good idea to put some info out there for the masses.

Enjoy the video and look below the fold for links to some great resources on 301's courtesy of Jeff.

• Here is Matt's article on applying 301s:
• Here is an article on how to 301 in a bunch of different languages
• Webmaster World thread to do a 301 in IIS
• Apache manual for "Redirect" directive
• Apache manual for "RedirectMatch" directive

Note from Jeff: In the video I mentioned that you can use regular
expressions to match for a redirect.  I neglected to mention that
they only work for RedirectMatch and not Redirect.