Hello everyone, I know this topic has been discussed many times but I still have a few things that I am confused about. I have a blog that has around 130,000 visitors/month. The blog resides under a subdomain such as www.abc.com/blog Most of my traffic, about 70-80% comes from Google. My plan is to move this blog to its own domain www.xyz.com I know that there are 2 options: redirect 301 or 302. But the more I read, the more I am confused about it. Some people recommend one over the other one. My questions are basically: 1. which one is best to use? 2. how badly would I be affected by the change? Will the traffic drop dramatically? My PR is actually 0 now, because of the text link ads, so in terms of that, it makes no difference. thank you
301 will work best .... as it is a permanent change!!! will not effect traffic that much ..... if rest of the url remains same!
cool. Also, how should I go about the redirect? .htaccess? any examples? Should I also redirect when someone types www.abc.com/blog to www.xyz.com ?
You should use .htaccess to redirect the domains, you will see a decrease in organic traffic, this is due to the temporary drop in search engine results because of the redirecting. It takes time to pass on the SEO\Pagerank weight. Below is an example of how to do the redirecting in .htaccess
You are confused you have me and others conused to! a sub domain goes like this www.yourdomain.kd-mains.com or www.mydomain.kd-mains.com and not www.abc.com/blog or www.kd-mains.com/blog redirecting anything is not good to do if it can be avoided! So as an example let's say I once had the domain worldsdating.com and wanted to redirect the traffic to kd-mains.com/dating I would just make it known on Google and elsewhere but I would not redirect traffic from worldsdating.com via any other means as redirects just take up time in many ways!
ok, let me make it clear then: my current blog is hosted under: www.abc.com/blog Basically, I am trying to move it under a brand new domain: www.xyz.com Does it make more sense?
so I should expect a huge drop then. Some of the articles are ranked really high, so basically, all the traffic from them will be gone...for a while.
No, I don't think you will experience a huge drop. I changed thousands of pages recently with a permanent .htaccess redirect with no problems. I did not change domain names though.
I can't give you an exact figure on how much traffic you'll not recieve or how far in the search results you'll fall. What I'm telling you is it will happen for a decent amount of time as the 301 redirect passes juice over, you will return to normal levels eventually.
I'm having some problems redirecting. For some reason, when i do this RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-site.com/blog [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.new-site.com/$1 [L,R=301] it doesn't work. I placed this in the .htaccess found in the root, and not under the /blog but if I try this code redirect 301 /blog http://www.new-site.com/ everything works well. Which one should I use? Is there a difference between the two of them?
anyone? I can't figure it out Here is what I came up with so far, RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.old-site.com\/blog$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.new-site.com/$1 [L,R=301]