Expired Domain Showing Error When Linked with Search Console

[BynJ]

Hi, I bought an expired domain for my affiliate website. It was unused for the last 1-2 years. The Wayback machine has snaps of the domain till 2018 end. The domain has a small backlink profile (mostly from some educational institutions). But when I connected it with the Google search console, it's giving me following error.

The problem is that the site has only 5 pages/posts!!

I checked the errors with URL inspection and it says no issues.

I am really confused on the number of URLs GSC showing in "Indexed, not submitted in sitemap" category. Do you guys face this issue with used domains? What should I do about this?

 

[BynJ]

Bump,
Does anyone have similar issues?

 

[Starblazer]

Expired domains generally show old indexed pages. You can either redirect all of them to your home page or create fresh content for them. You can even copy content from archive.

 

[BynJ]

Expired domains generally show old indexed pages. You can either redirect all of them to your home page or create fresh content for them. You can even copy content from archive.

Thank you for your reply. There are a lot of pages, so I don't want to recreate them. So how can I redirect all of them to my home page? Is there any plugins or should I try any manual process?

 

[Starblazer]

Thank you for your reply. There are a lot of pages, so I don't want to recreate them. So how can I redirect all of them to my home page? Is there any plugins or should I try any manual process?

If the permalink structure is different, then it's easy to redirect using regex. For example, if the old perma links follow domain/year/month/url, and the current structure is domain/url, then you can redirect all links with 4 digit/2 digit numbers at once using regex. If the permalink structures are similar, then you need to manually redirect them. There are several plugins available which will make it easy to process urls in bulk. Export the list from GSC and import it to the redirect plugin.

 

[BynJ]

If the permalink structure is different, then it's easy to redirect using regex. For example, if the old perma links follow domain/year/month/url, and the current structure is domain/url, then you can redirect all links with 4 digit/2 digit numbers at once using regex. If the permalink structures are similar, then you need to manually redirect them. There are several plugins available which will make it easy to process urls in bulk. Export the list from GSC and import it to the redirect plugin.

Thanks man. I have been looking on the internet about 301 redirects and I saw a WPbeginner video saying either use .htaccess file or Redirection plugin to do 301s, which one do you think is good.

PS: I don't know Regex