Hi all, I am hoping someone will know what I am talking about. I have a blog at http://dillydesigns.com that is 3+ years old, I lost all my PR from using sponsored links, so I am not worried about losing PR. I have gone through and cleaned everything up- i.e- no spammy paid links anymore, no-follow added where I couldn't delete, etc. Anyway, since I am starting over I figured it was time to buy a domain that had something to do with my blog. So I finally bought http://confessionsofahousewife.com (as that is the title of the site, and the other domain did not fit at all) right now I have my host (hostgator) parking and redirecting the new domain to the old one. I want to have the new domain (confessionsofahousewife.com) eventually replace dillydesigns.com completely, theoretically this would be easy, I would have the host change the domain name around making the opposite of what I have in place now, with dillydesigns redirecting to confessions, then I would need to go into wordpress and change the domain there to be sure all permalinks and such switched. In theory that works (in my head LOL) but I am sure that if someone goes to http://dillydesigns.com/the/old/permalink they will get a 401 page. Is there anyway to htaccess a redirect or something to make sure that the computer just replaces the DOMAIN NAME, and leaves the rest of the link intact, to be sure that old permalinks dont get lost and on that note- most 'deep' landing pages come from google, once I do switch over my new domain name do I need to do anything special to be sure not to get penalized for dup content if they have the cache of the old one and the index of the new one? Thanks so much for all the help in advance yall!!
You could try the following (put in your .htaccess file): RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^prime357.org [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.prime357.org RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://prime357.net/$1 [R=301,L] Code (markup): My prime357.net site use to be prime357.org. I still have to account for old links (.org) all over the place and the above code does the trick. Hope this helps (obviously replace with your domain details).
thanks steve! I will add that to the file- i just initiated the switch so the next few hours will show how scary this will all be! LOL