Server Status Code Infographic For SEOs
By Don Campbell
Expert Author
Article Date: 2011-06-06
SEOMoz published this nifty Infographic describing HTTP server status codes. These are the codes that your web server returns when someone requests a page from your website.
Why are these important? When you are moving a website, it is important to take an inventory of your pages and ensure that they are redirected properly to their new URLs. You need to make sure they are being redirected with a "301 Permanent Redirect" to ensure that Google understands you moved the page and transfers link juice to the new page. 
More Tools For Your Website & SEO ToolkitHere is a nice web-based tool to help you inspect the status code for a page:
Server Header Checker Tool. You can use the chart above to interpret the server response codes you get back from this tool. Here is a tool to check your page load times too:
Pingdom Page Load Time Checker You can also use Google's Page Load Speed Tool. I also really like this tool - you can enter in any URL and it will tell you what shows above and below the "fold" for each browser size. I optimize for 1024 x 768.
Google Browser Size Tool. What tools do you use?
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About the Author:
Don is President and founder of Expand2Web.com, which provides WordPress Websites and Local Search Marketing solutions and training for small business owners and consultants.
Don is a veteran of Silicon Valley Startup Interwoven, where he was created a $5M product line and Microsoft where he was technical evangelist for Office and Office Live. Check out his blog at http://www.expand2web.com/blog.
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