[Hidden-tech] Permanent redirect okay?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:34:35 -0400 Colin Panetta <colin at left-click.us> wrote:

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> Hey Claudia,
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> One of our programmers passed this along to me:
> Setting up your old domain to point to your new one with a 301 redirect is
> exactly what you should do.  301 indicates that any external tools (like
> browser bookmarks and search engines) should use your new domain in the
> future.  Assuming that your two domains serve different sites, you may lose
> some traffic that would have gone to your old site simply because the
> content will no longer be there (although the redirect will help people
> find it in it's new location).  Setting up an individual 301 redirect for
> each resource/page to its location on the new domain would help with this.

RedirectMatch is good for this, unless the two sites have a different
structure.  If you just want 'ClaudiaGere.com/<mumble> to redirect to
ClaudiaGereCo.com/<mumble> (where <mumble> is the same for both), then
a RedirectMatch is what you want.

>  If you later decide that you want to use the old domain, simply remove the
> redirect, and you can begin rebuilding your SEO.
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> Best,
> Colin
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