Redirecting Backlinks On Resurrected Domain

PassiveJ

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• Oct 26, 2019

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Hi

I have picked up an expired domain and am planning on rebuilding it. I want all existing backlinks to redirect to the root as I have now added SSL to the domain so they are invalid. What is the easiest way to do this please in Wordpress?

I was wondering if 'Really Simple SSL' could do this or if I need to do some kind of 301 redirect.

Thanks

 

MJ10

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• Oct 27, 2019

• #2

use plugin 404 redirect to homepage

 

Rj268

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• Oct 27, 2019

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If you are building similar niche you can just redirect them to similar pages on the new site. Or redirect them to the home page. There are wordpress plugins for both options.

 

PassiveJ

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Rj268 said:

If you are building similar niche you can just redirect them to similar pages on the new site. Or redirect them to the home page. There are wordpress plugins for both options.

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Could you suggest one for redirecting to home page please?

 

MJ10

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https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-404-redirect-to-homepage/

 

Rj268

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PassiveJ said:

Could you suggest one for redirecting to home page please?

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I have used all of these. The last two will send 404 to home by default.

Redirection
404 to Similar Post
404 to 301
404 to Homepage

 

PassiveJ

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Thanks for the suggestions both.

 

RAP

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A plugin for a simple 404 redirect?
What a waste of resource, it can be done with 1 line of code in .htaccess

ErrorDocument 404 /

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