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indyrain
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Posted: 2008-Sep-12 04:35
Hi,
New to the forums and pretty much a code rookie. After years of hosting one of my websites I decided to re-brand it to a different domain name. I started to do some googling and it looks like the best way is to redirect all my old pages to my new website pages using a 301 redirect. Does this mean I have to go into all my hundreds of old pages and redirect them to the new website pages? If so what is the redirect code that goes in the <head> section for .htm pages? Or is there a simpler solution. Please keep in mind for those kind enough to answer that I'm a code dumb dumb.
Thanks in advance,
Rick
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indyrain
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Posted: 2008-Sep-12 04:58
IT looks like after doing some more searching that I should be doing the redirect through the .htaccess file for html pages. Is this the best solution?
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g1smd
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Posted: 2008-Sep-12 08:57
Yes, do this in .htaccess using functions from Mod_Rewrite. Once you have defined exactly which URL formats need redirecting, the code to do so is fairly trivial. You don't need separate hosting for the file. You point both domains at the same server and let the .htaccess file take control once the requests arrive; redirecting only those that are for the "wrong" domain name.
However, you should question whether you really want to make this domain move, as you are throwing away your domain age, and domain trust. As far as Google is concerned you are starting again. The redirect will eventually transfer some of the factors over from the old domain, but you are likely to rank lower for many months, maybe anything up to a year.
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indyrain
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Posted: 2008-Sep-12 16:34
Thanks for the helpful advice. Fortunately the re-branding is to a domain that has been around for years too and is ranked underneath my old domain for similar keyword phrases 
Thanks again for your reply and advice,
Rick
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