Redirecting old links from an expired domain?

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I recently bought an expired domain. The links on this domain look something like this:

http://www.cars.com/how-to-change-a-tyre.aspx

The links are all .aspx.

I bought the domain and I have installed it on a Wordpress and it is running fine, I have moved all of the old content via wayback machine onto the wordpress site on new links so they look all the same, however, the wordpress links do not end in .aspx. The old aspx links are not automatically redirecting to my wordpress links which are exactly the same except they do not have .aspx on the end.

What is the best way of dealing with this? Am I supposed to create a redirect for every single link, and wouldnt this be bad for SEO to have a site with so many redirects?

Please share your thoughts!
 
Why would you even redirect or bother with the old links? Use ChatGPT and make better content on site. I doubt those old links will bring in any type of cash
 
I am making better content on the site, but these links point to high performing content.
 
Server software can be used for this. For example in nginx you can match all links ending in *.aspx and return a 301 to your new link, without .aspx. It's easy if you kept the same paths since you just remove the .aspx, but if you have completely newer links for your blog posts you have to do each one manually. It can be done though.

Edit: and I'm sure the same can be achieved with apache.
 
I recently bought an expired domain. The links on this domain look something like this:

www.cars.com/how-to-change-a-tyre.aspx

The links are all .aspx.

I bought the domain and I have installed it on a Wordpress and it is running fine, I have moved all of the old content via wayback machine onto the wordpress site on new links so they look all the same, however, the wordpress links do not end in .aspx. The old aspx links are not automatically redirecting to my wordpress links which are exactly the same except they do not have .aspx on the end.

What is the best way of dealing with this? Am I supposed to create a redirect for every single link, and wouldnt this be bad for SEO to have a site with so many redirects?

Please share your thoughts!

This is one of the best plugins available:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
 
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