Redicting Website to new domain need to change Old Sitemap ?

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    Help Needed in redicting Website to new domain
    Hi,
    I have moved my old site to new web site.I redirected all the pages except the main page of the old site. I want to keep it.
    I used the .htacces file and used the rewrite engine rule.
    My site contains around 5000 pages.
    But I did n't replaced all my old files which points to new location. It uses .htaccess file intsead of it. So when ever a user clicks on
    oldpage -> it goes to new page using the .htaccess 301 redirection .

    Now I do have the Old page Sitemap already uploaded to Google webmaster tools. Now google has reported some warnings like "Too many 301 redirections from your pages" . This is because I actually did n't make changes in that web page to new site. It uses the old address and uses the redirection.

    Now I have two options
    1) Change the old pages point to new location
    2) Cahnge the site map to point to new target location.
    3) Create New Site map for new site and submit to google

    Here is my question which is better option 1) , 2) or 3) so that it smoothly tranfers the page rank with out any problem.

    I am confused..

    Or the method I am using is wrong..?
    Please Help me..
     
    rakesh_kpn, May 21, 2008 IP
  2. Cherryone

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    I would personally delete the old sitemap and put one 301 rewrite rule that would take all the traffic from any of the old pages to the homepage of the new website.
     
    Cherryone, May 21, 2008 IP
  3. rakesh_kpn

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    #3
    my new site do have the same directory structure.
    I don't just wanted to redirect all the traffic to new home page, I want it to be redirected to the corresponding page.presently it is working also.

    deleting the sitemap would be fine I think.
    or in the old site map instead of old target pages I will add new target pages .
     
    rakesh_kpn, May 21, 2008 IP
  4. Cherryone

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    Maybe you could write a rewrite rule that would forward everything from
    *www.old-domain.com/*page.html to *www.new-domain.com/*page.html
    provided that the filenames are the same.

    What I'm thinking here is the rewrite rule that changes all the .htm files to .html or to .php. Just instead of changing the file extension, we change the domain name. That would be one rewrite rule instead of multiple ones.

    Hop it helps...
     
    Cherryone, May 22, 2008 IP