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The very best way to preserve your hyperlinks, and have visitors end up on their needed web page is to setup a redirect from the old domain to the new one particular.

If you have to move a web site from a single domain to yet another, it will imply that all the links pointing to your old internet site would now be lost and would generate the dreaded 404 error when visitors came in by way of old search engine listing or links.

The ideal way to preserve your links, and have guests finish up on their needed web page is to setup a redirect from the old domain to the new a single.

In this example, we are going to assume that we use to have a domain called OLDSITE.COM and for some reason we have to move everything across to NEWSITE.COM

The first up, dont kill the hosting for the old web site but leave it operating for some time. This will then let us to redirect guests from the old site to the new site.

A 301 redirect merely tells search engines that go to your website that the old URL has now permanently changed to another URL. When the search engines find the 301 redirect they will begin to convert all the old hyperlinks in their index across to the new location.

This will take some time and on website internet sites, this may take months to have the search engines convert all the old hyperlinks across to the new places.

An .htaccess file is absolutely nothing much more than a easy text file that consists of directions for the internet server that run on that hosting account.

On your Computer, start a copy of NOTEPAD (This can be accomplished by going Begin->Accessories->Notepad) and edit your existing .htaccess file or to produce a new a single. DONT use Word or any other word processing application to open the file, because these packages have the horrible habit of inserting funny characters in file that will cause the .htaccess file to not function appropriately.

If your new sites structure is specifically the very same as the old internet site, then just place the following line in your .htaccess file

Redirect 301 save the file, and FTP this file up into your web sites main account. On most Linux primarily based systems, this is the /public_html/ directory

Now, whenever a visitor (be it a human or a search engine bot) comes to your old domain, they will be redirect to your new internet site. So if they came searching for a file referred to as stuff.html (old URL would be www.oldsite.com/stuff.html) they would get automatically redirected to www.newsite.com/stuff.html

This is the easiest way to move an complete internet site from 1 domain to yet another

If the structure of the new web site is diverse from the old one, then we will require to map each old URL to its corresponding new place. This also applies if you determine to change the structure of your web site, and you want to preserve the hyperlinks from your old structure and map them to their new place.

If you have a URL that was www.oldsite.com/dogtraining/ and you wanted to redirect visitors to www.newsite.com/information/dog-instruction.html you would location the following in your .htaccess file.

Redirect 301 /dogtraining/ format is:

Redirect 301 old-place new-place

The old-place is the path to the old destination (minus the domain name)

The new-place is the complete path to final location (it should include the fully certified domain name as well).

This signifies that when each and every a visitor comes in on the old URL (www.oldsite.com/dogtraining/) the web server will redirect them to the new URL of (www.newsite.com/information/dog-instruction.html)

If you have a number of areas that you want to redirect, then you have to have multiple redirects set up. With 1 redirect per line. An instance may appear like this:

Redirect 301 /dogtraining/ 301 /policedogtraining/ 301 /dogtrainingvideos/ is time consuming setting up 301 redirect, but if your site had beneficial incoming hyperlinks, then its worth spending the time to preserve these links and maintain your internet site ranking as well as it utilised to and to keep your website lucrative. multiple domain certificate

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