Anyone know how to fix a .htaccess

[mallymally is verified member.]

Hello

I've modified my old website, and now need to remove the phrase "cheap-products"

Some example url's

randomdomain.com/product-1000-cheap-products/
randomdomain.com/product-1001-cheap-products/
randomdomain.com/product-1002-cheap-products/

How do I make it so it will forward (seo wise) to the following

randomdomain.com/product-1000/
randomdomain.com/product-1001/
randomdomain.com/product-1002/

I'm guessing .htaccess is the quick way ahead,

Thanks in anticipation!Q

 

[RobMRobM is verified member.]

In your .htaccess file:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/product-(.*)\-cheap-products/ /product-$1/

 

[mallymally is verified member.]

Excellent Rob, that works great cheers Mally

 

[roydovaston]

How does Google take to these types of internal URL redirects from an seo point of view?

 

[Aegean]

Roy, a properly formatted 301 redirect is advocated by Google, so they are fine.

 

[MurrayMurray is verified member.]

How does Google take to these types of internal URL redirects from an seo point of view?

Video from Matt Cutts you might find useful

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/rel-canonical-html-head/