Permanent redirect htaccess? 301? 2001?!

fish · Mar 17, 2011

I have a couple of domains which have history, PR & Yahoo backlinks.
Currently they are just set up as a forward to other (subject related) domains so I can benefit from the traffic.

What is the best way to do this in order to 'keep the love' ?

Thnx

Howie

wb · Mar 17, 2011

Permanent 301

fish · Mar 17, 2011

wb said:
Permanent 301

OK, idiots guide to do this please

is done via htaccess ?

wb · Mar 17, 2011

Edit: reply below is clearer

JDubya · Mar 17, 2011

fish said:
OK, idiots guide to do this please

is done via htaccess ?

Either create, or append to a ".htaccess" file (uploaded to the document root folder):

HTML:

Redirect 301 / http://www.new-domain.co.uk

Which will redirect all requests to the new domain. But I don't know to what degree you can expect to pass on any PR or benefits from the backlinks for the old domain to the other domain.

Maybe it would be more beneficial to stick up a holding page on the old domain (related to the anchor text of the backlinks) and stick a link to the subject related other domain.

If the backlinks to the old domain are pointed at directories/sub pages of the old domain, you could redirect those to the holding page. Again, with .htaccess, something like:

HTML:

RewriteEngine On

# non www requests to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

# single page redirection
Redirect 301 /old-page.html http://www.old-domain.co.uk/

# multiple matches redirection
RedirectMatch 301 ^/old-directory/ http://www.old-domain.co.uk/