Right redirect to transfer juice www, no-www and website movement
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Hi here is my problem, I have a website which works both with www. and without www; Now I want to optimize it and transfer it to another new domain along with the link juice of both the old domain with www and without www. I don't want to do it with multiple redirects but with just one clean redirect (I know that search engines don't like that, am I right?). What should I write in the .htaccess of the old domain and in the one of the new domain?
To summarize I want something like that:
www.oldsite.com/anyfile.html>301>www.newsite.com/anyfile.html
oldsite.com/anyfile.html>301>www.newsite.com/anyfile.html
newsite.com/anyfile.html>301?>www.newsite.com/anyfile.html
Thanks
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Yes if you just want to redirect individual pages like that - you could have it so any requests on the domain www and none redirect to the new domain and then specific pages can point to specific pages - see below:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.newdomain.co.uk" [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^page2.html$ "http://www.newdomain.com/page2.html" [R=301,L]
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Ok thank you very much for the useful answer. I have one more question for you. What about if I want to redirect page by page?
Is something like this going to work?
RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$
RewriteRule ^page1.html "http://www.newdomain.com/page1.html" [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^page2.html "http://www.newdomain.com/page2.html" [R=301,L]
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RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.newdomain.co.uk" [R=301,L]
Add this to your .htaccess file of your oldsite and it will redirect both www. and none www. to your new domain passing on link juice - sorry I wasn't specific before.
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This is general information about the topic that I already know. What I need is the exact code to insert in my .htaccess to be sure that I am doing the best redirects for my specific case.
Thanks anyway Matt.
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Hi Simone
I think this will help solve your problem -
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-rewrites-and-301-redirects-how-does-it-all-work
and how to actually do it -
http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php/
You will only need to create the redirect in the old domains htaccess file so that all traffic to the old domain will go to the new one.
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