Create 301 redirect: subdomains to root

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isshmen

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Hey, 301 pros.

So I just bought my first expired domain and planning to create a website on this domain.
There's lots of backlinks pointing to subdomains (sub1, sub2, sub3 etc) and their pages (sub1.main.com/nice-article)

What's the best way to do 301 redirect and "keep" the link juice?
I am not planning on (re)create articles on those subdomains/pages.

Thanks a lot.

 

moneyguru2013

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I ain't no SEO guru but i would link back from those subdomains back to the main domain.

 

tiiberius

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Best way would be to redirect on page by page basis.

sub1.main.com/nice-article
to:
main.com/sub1/nice-article

If you simply redirect to homepage you will get lots of soft 404.

Maybe what would work is redirect whole sub-domain to sub-folder like illustrated above.

 

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moneyguru2013 said:

I ain't no SEO guru but i would link back from those subdomains back to the main domain.

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So you're sayin' to recreate the subdomains and redirect them to root?
What would the redirect htaccess code be? or through cpanel?

later edit: i don't want to keep those urls.
I only need their backlinks.

 

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anyone can help me with a 301 redirect htaccess code?

 

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isshmen

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still need help redirecting subdomain to domain.com/url

 

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well, someone from namecheap helped me, but I'm not sure if this redirect method will get the link juice (backlinks pointing to subdomain).


so what de did:

1. created the sub.site.com subdomain (where SUB get those backlinks)

2. redirect in cPanel from sub.site.com to sub.site.com/^/(.*)$

3. adding this code in .htaccess uploaded on sub.site.com

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)$ https://site.com/sub

Is that good enough?

Thanks!

 

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any advices, please?
i don't want to lose link juice.