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That won’t work because 301 Redirects don’t preserve the URLS and our SEO specialist says he doesn’t like Redirect only RewriteRule or using a real file.

If I do:

Redirect 301 /page2.php /index.php?page_id=123

Then the browser is redirected to /index.php?page_id=123, the URL’s are different and the search engines get 2 URLs for 1 page.

And it’s hard to use .htaccess Redirect with WordPress since WordPress is so heavily reliant on .htaccess code for making permalinks, it bypasses most of the permalinking. Which makes using RewriteRule hard to use too.

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