301 to subdomain regional preference

I have this site, and been trying to market the UK for a while, its #1 in most places except UK....

http://www.bookmakersonlinebetting.com/

so I created a subdomain in google and targeted the UK and I host it with a UK IP....

http://uk.bookmakersonlinebetting.com/

I am now trying to do a 301 from the main site to the subdomain, but its giving me a redirect loop and a redirect timeout...

this is what i got in the htaccess file:

redirect 301 http://www.bookmakersonlinebetting.com/ http://uk.bookmakersonlinebetting.com/

i have also tried redirect 301 / to the subdomain and redirect 301 /index.html

none work.

I have deleted the htaccess instructions that i put previously to go from the domain.com to the www.domain.com, still doesnt work....

any ideas as to how to do the 301???

 

i think...in geolocation redirect, 302 should be preferred over 301

 

you're redirecting an established site to a subdomain? why? Why not just switch host of the original site to the UK? that should be enough to get UK ranking. I think i'm rightin thinking that a subdomain with UK mentioned in it wont do anything for UK listings, nothing at all.

anyway, either way, use mod rewrite, not redirect to do this. A simple one will do, something like this.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]:

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*oldwebsite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.preferredwebsite.net/$1 [R=301,L]

Try it...

 

I agree with the second reply here.......it is not advisable to redirect or do anything with the estabilished site. you may want to change the host to UK host for UK rankings instead of any redirect..

 

the site is already hosted in the UK

 

yes, and i've just checked, you are listed in UK search engines.

You're number 7 for UK bookmakers in google UK when i checked.. and that is your target term according to your website.. so whats the problem?

 

Yes!!! There is absolutely no need. When I checked...it was,
msn UK- 1st
yahoo UK- 2nd
google UK- 9th

 

Thank you for the information! I think it will come in handy for some of my hosting sites.

 

use this script for redirect...

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]: