Hello, I have a website hosted with a company that is in liquidation. It's a bespoke site for our business. Luckily, I am almost finished with a new Wordpress site that should go live in a week or two. My original website has a decent amount of relevant backlinks, PR and organic traffic. I wanted to use re-directs to our new site to pass that 'juice' to the new website. The old website is a .co.uk whereas the new website is a .com if that matters. My question is this....do I have to have a 'copy' of old website and host it in order to use re-directs properly or is there some other technical means to do this without getting hosting for the 'old' site? So far, my emails are not going answered and I can't get ahold of them and am freaking out a bit. I just want to ensure that my new site is properly set up with the re-directs from the old site and apparently they aren't/cant' help! Luckily, I have changed them from being the domain registrar. Those are being held with Namecheap. Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated! Cheers, Dave
So I can do this without 'hosting' the old website then? Where do I set the re-direct up? I know that's a pretty basic question but we all have to learn! Thanks for the help! -Dave
You can redirect the domain name itself at the DNS level using CNAME. That will not pass the link juice as effectively, if at all, however. To keep the link juice, you will need to have the domain active and hosted. If the old domain name is hosted with the same hosting provider as the new one, you could use the cPanel > Redirects in the Domains box to 301 redirect the pages. If it is not hosted with the same hosting provider and you can't transfer it, then you could just install an empty WordPress shell and use the Redirection plugin to 301 redirect to the new pages on the new site. You will need to do a 301 redirect for all pages, which might be a bit of an undertaking, but if the link juice is worth it, then it makes sense.
Hello, These are hosted on completely different servers and different companies. As for your other idea...that's interesting! What you are saying (I think and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that I could use the 'old' domain name, install a 301 re-direct plug in and systematically page by page do re-directs to the new site. By doing it this way, will I still retain the 'link juice', PR and SERPs? Cheers, Dave
Yeah, if you have access to the old domain name then you can use a redirect plugin (or anything that will 301) redirect the pages to the new site. That will retain the link juice and page rank.
are you have full control for both of your domain names? if yes, you can do this simple step, point your old domain to your new hosting and than create a new index.php file with contain the following script * this is a lazy method but the easiest way to redirect all your old domain traffics from search engine to the new domain <?php $incomingurl=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; //replace old domain with the new one $outgoingurl=str_replace("olddomain.co.uk","newdomain.com",$incomingurl); # 301 redirect header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently"); header("Location: $outgoingurl"); exit(); ?> PHP: I use this method to redirect all my old domain to the new one, especially when Google disabled ads serving for my old domain, I get all traffics, backlinks, and PR :cmiiw ~sorry my bad englis