How do I 301 re direct a PAS page?

[RobertPAS]

Hi Broker,

There isn't a formal write-up yet for the 301 redirect feature yet, at least that I know of. It's located under Website Management within the CMS. When you create a new redirect page, you'll enter the relative path to your old page of content, the absolute URL it should redirect to, and the status code (301, 302). Happy coding!

Robbie

[Brokerstar]

So when you create a new page, you pretty much leave it blank and it just transfers to the new page? So how will creating a new page, that essentially has no content on it, help said content rank better in Google? Am I just being simple here? What's the point of a 301 re direct then?

[RobertPAS]

I'm not sure I follow completely..

You'd take your old content out from some ugly url:
http://mysite.com/path/to/old/conten...query/09ds09k3

And move it to a new page (internal/external link):
http://mysite.com/articles/better-for-seo.html

After setting up the redirect, requests for both
http://mysite.com/path/to/old/conten...query/09ds09k3 [301-permanent redirect]
http://mysite.com/articles/better-for-seo.html [200-ok]

return the content. When Google next indexes your site, the 301 is a flag that will update the existing index with the new URL.

Disclaimer: Not an SEO expert :P