Domain redirection

drumltd · Jan 5, 2009

I've taken over the managment of a site, which has about 10 domain names, all of which point to exactly the same content. I don't think this is doing anybody any good what so ever.

So I'm think of moving the 9 extra domains to another IP address, then having a redirect to the correct site.

What is the most SEO friendly way of doing this?

so that

xxx.com/fredy/bert/jane

maps correctly to

yyy.com/fredy/bert/jane

I'm thinking the redirects should be permanent so that the likes of big g, etc. know to stop bothering with the old domains, but they still work if someone has one bookmarked.

TommyDJr45 · Jan 5, 2009

That's a good question I too would like to know the best way to redirect a certain domain name to the appropriate one.

zone69 · Jan 5, 2009

drumltd said:
I've taken over the managment of a site, which has about 10 domain names, all of which point to exactly the same content. I don't think this is doing anybody any good what so ever.

So I'm think of moving the 9 extra domains to another IP address, then having a redirect to the correct site.

What is the most SEO friendly way of doing this?

so that

xxx.com/fredy/bert/jane

maps correctly to

yyy.com/fredy/bert/jane

I'm thinking the redirects should be permanent so that the likes of big g, etc. know to stop bothering with the old domains, but they still work if someone has one bookmarked.

I think this should work for you. Just place on each domain in the .htaccess.

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://new_domain_to_redirect_to.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]

Hope that helps!

drumltd · Jan 5, 2009

That's great thanks, is it possible to put all the spare domains into the hosting acct, and have that redirect, or should I have one acct for each old domain?

mdmoney · Jan 5, 2009

You can use zones method or most cpanels have this option of redirect. It is very good for doorway pages.

xhpdx · Jan 6, 2009

you can try this method also

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?old-domain\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.new-domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This should redirect both the www and non-www versions to your new domain.

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