Comments on: WordPressGarage.com now on WPGarage.com, and how to move a domain with a 301 redirect on WordPress

By: Even More on 301 Redirects with WordPress, Primary Domains, Dummy Domains and Hostgator | WP Garage

Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:05:36 +0000

[...] otherolddomain.com), was in a subdirectory of the primary domain. I thought I could just reuse the oh-so-easy 301 redirect that worked when we moved WordPressGarage.com over to WPGarage.com. [...]

By: Property Guru

Property Guru — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:54:08 +0000

Thanks, i managed to redirect my old domain traffic to a new domain. But somehow the traffic wasnt that much as compared in the past. Will monitor and update.

By: T3B

T3B — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:49:25 +0000

Yes, for those who tried but failed, watch out for the space and have the .htaccess file store in that original website folder.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:10:07 +0000

He (the expert whose makes money from consulting with WordPress and Typepad) just said once you redirect your site, the PR and Google juice will eventually flow to your new site (Site 2) and Google will get the hint and you no longer will need to keep site 1 open as Google will understand what has happened.
This I agreed with him. However, I made the point that was true as long as you keep the links pointing to site number 1, eventually they will need to be change the links to site 2 if you want to keep that juice flowing. If you cancel site 1 without this change in links then the redirect benefits will mostly be lost. I have no idea how he could not understand this but – he did not believe me.
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For a site that did not have much PR and age, I have simply moved the content and wrote my linkers to change their links if they wanted. I cancelled domain 1 (I want to start scaling down the number of domains I use) and in about 3 or 4 months things were back to normal in site 2 without a redirect.
I know people would cringe at this but I am curious about your opinion about by passing the redirection.

By: Miriam Schwab

Miriam Schwab — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:13:00 +0000

Mark, what did the self-proclaimed expert tell you that was different?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:29:13 +0000

That is what I thought, however, a self proclaimed expert told me to the contrary. I agree with you and conventional wisdom that I will have to write anyone with a link I have to keep paying for the domain. It is more a hobby site so I might just delete it.
I am trying to consolidate my smaller sites, WP be always interesting but it is a matter of time.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 03:31:59 +0000

@Mark
1. As long as you want to keep receiving PR from the old links you will need to keep the old domain. Once the domain is gone, those links will die and hence can’t help you out SEO wise.
2. Yes, all old links would need to be replaced since they wouldn’t be pointing anywhere

I hope that link in your comment above is not the site you are referring to since it appears to be a site about WP SEO, lol!

By: More on doing a 301 redirect of a WordPress site to a new domain | WP Garage

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:27:26 +0000

[...] the request by the folks at Automattic that people not use the word WordPress in their domain name. We wrote up a guide on how to do this type of 301 redirect, and at that point it seemed that things had gone mostly smoothly. However, I now know that things [...]

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:39:29 +0000

I came across this policy today. Therefore, it looks like I will need to do this.
1) How long must I keep paying for the old domain? That is if I cancel it next year or in two years will I lose Google juice if I ever cancel this domain?
2) If I do cancel this old domain all the people linking to it need to be rewritten?
3) I wish I knew about this before.

By: Linus Bohman

Linus Bohman — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:54:06 +0000

Huh, that’s pretty weird. When I’ve switched domains in the past GA has corrected itself. You can edit the settings in analytics itself to update the domain – have you tried that? If yes, the only thing I can think of is to re-generate or re-validate your site. If you figure it out I would love to hear what the problem was for future reference.