Changing URL, can I save my backlinks?

Hi everyone,

We are going to be changing our URL, and were wondering if it is possible to set up redirects from an internal page on site A to site B.

Example: SiteA.com/article-number-one ***TO*** SiteB.com/article-number-one

We have over 1000 articles and want to maintain the thousands of backlinks without having them all dump directly into the root page.

Is this possible, or are we stuck with a 301 re-direct to the home page?

Thanks for all of your help.

Geek Legacy said:

Hi everyone,

We are going to be changing our URL, and were wondering if it is possible to set up redirects from an internal page on site A to site B.

Example: SiteA.com/article-number-one ***TO*** SiteB.com/article-number-one

We have over 1000 articles and want to maintain the thousands of backlinks without having them all dump directly into the root page.

Is this possible, or are we stuck with a 301 re-direct to the home page?

Thanks for all of your help.

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Yes you can and there are two ways.

If you keep the same exact site structure on the new site you can forward all the the urls with one redirect.

I think this does it but test to make sure as it has been quite awhile since I used it

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !.*YOURDOMAIN\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://YOURDOMAIN.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>


If you are changing the site structure you will need to do a 301 for every single page. With a big site not something I would recommend

If you have CMS then there are usually plugins/modules that can help.
But yeh, you generally need to do a 301 redirect or something similar.

Most hosting companies actually provide a redirect service. Which company do you use? HostGator has that option on the cpanel.

I use this redirect service for a lot of my affiliate campaigns.