301 Redirects Help Please!

Hey guys, i had just purchased 3 high authority domains and i want to 301 redirect to my main site.

I am using godaddy and I was wondering if I have to use a .htaccess file?
Because if I'm not mistaken it means I would have to pay for hosting wouldn't I.

Isn't it possible to do a 301 redirect from the domain registrar's DNS settings?

What is the difference?

Will i still get the link juice if the backlinks were linking to subfolders and not the root?

Sorry for the many questions but i hope someone can answer them or point me to an article or somesort that i can refer to. Thank you.

can i see screenshot please?

If you expect to redirect sites at registrar level and get some boost out of it, then that won't happen. 301 redirects are not as effective as they used to be, can take months to take effect and you have to redirect already ranking site. Not deindexed sites without any content at the registrar level. There's no reason for any link juice transfer at all.

See if the domains are indexed, and would be best if you first host the sites, maybe try restoring original sites from Archive.org and then decide if you keep them as a PBN and link out to your MS, or try 301 redirect with htaccess. Pretty much what @Nargil said, he is the person to trust about domains.

301s at registar level works perfectly as long as there is some relevancy and the domain is in the index.
Seriously guys apply some common sense. If you are website owner and decided to change your domain and redirect your old domain to the new one, do you think Google will punish you (by not letting link juice to flow) if you don't want to pay for another hosting? Yeah sure. If is looks natural enough - it works. Thats it.

Iknowsomethings said:

301s at registar level works perfectly as long as there is some relevancy and the domain is in the index.
Seriously guys apply some common sense. If you are website owner and decided to change your domain and redirect your old domain to the new one, do you think Google will punish you (by not letting link juice to flow) if you don't want to pay for another hosting? Yeah sure. If is looks natural enough - it works. Thats it.

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If I am redirecting my old domain to a new one, then it's an aged and indexed domain with content already on it. Entire reason why Google accepts 301 redirects is continuity in case you are moving to a new domain. By redirecting deindexed sites without any content at the registrar level, there's absolutely no reason for Google to even crawl them, let alone provide you with any benefit.

Nargil said:

If I am redirecting my old domain to a new one, then it's an aged and indexed domain with content already on it. Entire reason why Google accepts 301 redirects is continuity in case you are moving to a new domain. By redirecting deindexed sites without any content at the registrar level, there's absolutely no reason for Google to even crawl them, let alone provide you with any benefit.

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Well the domains i got are have a 50+AHrefs DR and MozDA and MozTrust of 5 and PR of 6. A few thousands of big domains are linking to them and they are still indexed. Dead as the site may be.

Im just wondering if i must 301 specific pages with backlinks to my new domain for the FULL Domain Authority to be passed through or is 301ing the http://domain.com https://domain.com and http://www.domain.com https://www.domain.com to my main domain enough?

I understand as time goes on the quality of those 301s will diminish though as i lose more and more backlinks.

I don't really want to spend the time to PBN these out...

Thats why I said indexed relevant domains. If is de-indexed and you just register the domain it may not get indexed at all (depending of the registar).

Loh Jie Sheng said:

Well the domains i got are have a 50+AHrefs DR and MozDA and MozTrust of 5 and PR of 6. A few thousands of big domains are linking to them and they are still indexed. Dead as the site may be.

Im just wondering if i must 301 specific pages with backlinks to my new domain for the FULL Domain Authority to be passed through or is 301ing the http://domain.com https://domain.com and http://www.domain.com https://www.domain.com to my main domain enough?

I understand as time goes on the quality of those 301s will diminish though as i lose more and more backlinks.

I don't really want to spend the time to PBN these out...

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You can redirect them as they are. Of course, ideally, you want to redirect them page per page.

Another thing that hasn't been mentioned here is, that you are not only transferring link juice, but also anchors. So if those domains aren't super related to your money site, you will screw your anchors considerably.

You can use the free DNS servers provided by namecheap. And use namecheap DNS servers to do the 301 redirect.

Don't play with 301, not before you do your research.
100% working 301 is when you change your old domain with a new one but you use same script and same structure links, in this way 301 goes link on link and google will do his job and he will pass 99% of the juice.

When you wanna blast with 301 from expired domains then you need to know that there are some risk, and the best way is to check if the domain is still indexed in google, and if it is then try to recover the old content from the expired domain, make a site put it online and wait to see if google still indexing some new links, and just after that make the trick with the 301.

If the expired domain is not on index anymore then same try to recover the old content, make a site, add it on google and wait to see if google will index it, if not then is just garbage and will not help you in no way.

Hope this helps, is just my point of view from my cases of study and research.

I have done three 301 redirects to expired domains, I would register the domain, add some content relevant to my money site, wait for 2-3 weeks. then 301 redirect. would do them from the .htaccess and within a week, ahrefs would pick the links. Google search console would also embrace them.

You don't have to use .htaccess you should be able to do it using DNS Settings on GoDaddy (already done that.). Google it i'm pretty sure godaddy must have docs on it, and if you're still struggling then feel free to leave a pm