Do to reasons mentioned in another thread, I am moving my site to a new domain. The site is only a month old, but I want to keep as much of the position it has so far in tact. I was planning on dropping this into my .htaccess file: Redirect 301 / http://www.newdomain.com/ Does that cover all my bases, or should I use something like: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] Also, do I delete the whole website from the old domain, just leaving the .htaccess file in place or does it even matter as long as the htaccess has the redirect in it?
I would use the latter method, only because if you have content on the original domain you would want all of those weights to carry over. Make sure you keep the same URI structure in the new domain too, if your'e going to use that method.
Thanks for your reply, I did the: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] and it's working great. We'll see if the serach engines can figure out what happened now.