Redirecting Original Domain To New One For SEO Purposes

Hi everyone,

This problem is stressing me out pretty badly, so hopefully fellow DP'ers can help me out!

Here is the situation:

I recently changed my blog domain from financeadvisorystop.com to iblogplanet.com. I am running WORDPRESS on both of these. I exported the XML (all the posts) from the first domain, and moved it to iblogplanet.com.

I then removed the posts from financeadvisorystop.com in order to avoid duplicate content penalties.

I set up a 301 redirection, but here is the problem.

If someone clicks on financeadvisorystop.com/article1, they are not taken to iblogplanet.com/article1. Instead, they are taken to iblogplanet.com
I had 5500 backlinks to financeadvisorystop.com.

Is there any way to fix this so that I could still have some of the backlinks to my new site? Or traffic for that matter?

If anyone has a solution, I'd be more than willing to return the favor for you somehow.

Thanks!

 

How did you redirect?

 

I edited the .htaccess file.

 

Have you tried this?

Redirect 301 / http://www.example.com/

Code (markup):

 

show us the code you used in .htaccess to redirect

thanks,