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fix google crawl 404 errors with laravel

I've replaced lately an old website with a new one made with laravel. Now if i check google webmaster tools I have some 404 errors due of course to different URIs. Yesterday I fixed them with a simple redirect like

    Route::get('librerie_su_misura/librerie_su_misura.php', function(){ 
    return Redirect::to('librerie-su-misura', 301);
});

But this morning when i woke up i was thinking whether it will be ok for Google, or maybe it's a better approach to load the pages on the same old paths like

    Route::get('librerie_su_misura/librerie_su_misura.php', 'LibrerieController@index');

what's the best approach according to you? Of course i would like the old routes to be deleted some day, do you think the first approach can be ok for google?

Solution

  • According to RFC2616, section 10.3.2 301 Moved Permanently:

    The requested resource has been assigned a new permanent URI and any future references to this resource SHOULD use one of the returned URIs. Clients with link editing capabilities ought to automatically re-link references to the Request-URI to one or more of the new references returned by the server, where possible.

    This is also recommended practice from Google.