: How long before Google counts my .htaccess 301 redirect links? I have a friend who had around 2000 visitors per day to his website before a web designer with no SEO knowledge changed all his

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My question is how long does it take before google notices the redirects and passes link juice?


It varies from site-to-site. Stack Overflow will see virtually immediate effects while "smaller" sites could have to wait weeks for all of their pages to be found and updated in their index. If this site gets 2,000 visitors a day, they probably have plenty of quality backlinks and probably would see results sooner rather then later.


and will those long lost backlinks who where pointing to 404 pages count in google webmaster tools, I mean will I see a higher number of backlinks?


Once those redirects are found, yes.


And last question, will I get a higher page-rank?


Maybe. Maybe not. A few links may not make a difference in your page's rankings. There are a lot of factors to be considered when determining the rank of a page and we don't know enough of them to say what will happen. But more links, especially if they're on-topic, are a good thing and this can only help.

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