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  • MarloSchneider
    MarloSchneider last edited by Feb 23, 2011, 11:35 PM

    Not an unusual situation, I have a blog on blog.domain.com it has quite a few blog postings.  The platform is old and will be scrapped, but the blog content itself is going to be moved to domain.com/blog.

    The current process is we are manually listing all linked to/content pages and we are going to 301 redirect them to their counterparts on the new blog.  This is going to be a tedious process.

    A) Is there any way to automate the moving of the blog?

    B) What is the best way to do the massive 301 redirect, php headers, .htaccess?  Should we move the individual pages with redirects, or redirect the domain in the .htaccess (this will be very difficult to match all the titles and file structure)?

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    • jaraca
      jaraca last edited by Jun 16, 2015, 8:07 PM Jun 16, 2015, 8:07 PM

      Hi Keri.

      You're right! I am not a professional in the matter and I am trying to catch up little by little.

      Thanks for your advice!

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      • KeriMorgret
        KeriMorgret last edited by Jun 16, 2015, 8:01 PM Jun 16, 2015, 8:01 PM

        This thread is actually four years old, and the original poster mentioned that the problem was solved so no worries! You might want to look at more recent questions, as SEO advice can change as the search engines change.

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        • MarloSchneider
          MarloSchneider @MarloSchneider last edited by May 11, 2011, 5:43 PM May 11, 2011, 5:43 PM

          We solved it, our web programmer wrote a program to scrape all of our posts and turn them into a format that imported into wordpress.  As far as the redirects we kept the page titles the same and did a sitewide 301 that sent them from blog.example.com to example.com/blog/

          Although I would still like to grab Richard's php script for doing this in a more efficient manner in the future.

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          • A_Q
            A_Q @Getz.pro last edited by May 4, 2011, 1:25 PM May 4, 2011, 1:25 PM

            It will if you add r=301 to the last line like so:

            RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1 [L,R=301]

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            • KeriMorgret
              KeriMorgret @MarloSchneider last edited by May 1, 2011, 10:26 PM May 1, 2011, 10:26 PM

              Spencer, did you get this taken care of off-line, or is this question still open?

              [Keri Morgret, SEOmoz Associate]

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              • MarloSchneider
                MarloSchneider @Getz.pro last edited by Feb 24, 2011, 3:48 PM Feb 24, 2011, 3:48 PM

                Would you mind posting or messaging me the correct script?  It would be a great help, thanks.

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                • Getz.pro
                  Getz.pro @Dan-Petrovic last edited by Feb 24, 2011, 10:22 AM Feb 24, 2011, 10:22 AM

                  Yup, that will do the job of relocation, but it does not 301 the link and therefore you will not transfer link juice.

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                  • Dan-Petrovic
                    Dan-Petrovic last edited by Feb 24, 2011, 3:16 AM Feb 24, 2011, 3:16 AM

                    Found this one:

                    RewriteEngine On
                    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.mysite.com
                    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1 [L]

                    Source: http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2007/06/13/redirect-a-subdomain-to-a-directory-using-htaccess/

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                    • Getz.pro
                      Getz.pro last edited by Feb 24, 2011, 12:34 AM Feb 24, 2011, 12:34 AM

                      I am mobile, so excuse the typos 🙂 Using PHP, grab the incoming title and do a 301 header redirect to the new location. No need to mass 301 in .htaccess. 🙂 If you need the script, let me know

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