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  1. #1
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    Redirecting domain name

    Hello,

    I have an active wordpress website (news) xxx.com. Now I have new partners who will put some money in it and they want me to change the domain name to yyy.com

    I'm #1 on Google search. Most of my users are from Google.

    How can I redirect xxx.com to yyy.com? Not the domain name but also the full content.

    News: xxx.com/news/1234 I want it to become yyy.com/news/1234

    So basically I want to redirect everything from xxx.com to yyy.com and not just the domain name but also the contents, pages, categories.

    How can I achieve that?

    Thank you!
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  2. #2
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    Change the domain for the Wordpress installation so that it's running on yyy.com. (If you want no downtime, set up hosting for yyy.com, and copy everything over to that, which would give you two copies of your site at once - one on xxx.com and one on yyy.com).

    Check that all your pages now load with the yyy.com domain.

    Then remove the website from xxx.com. (If you set up a complete copy of the Wordpress installation, delete the files from the xxx.com folder. If you merely changed the domain for your hosting to be yyy.com, you've got nothing to do).

    Then set up a directory to host xxx.com out of. All you need in there is one .htaccess file that reroutes any requests to an xxx.com URL to the identical URL on yyy.com.
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  3. #3
    If you've registered with godaddy there is a "URL redirect" option that'll do just what you want to do. I would imagine that every other major domain name registrar does that too.

  4. #4
    I would rather just park domain y to your existing domain x as it would apply a new domain for your old website, but you wouldn't lose your good position on google search engine, which is way more important than some new fancy domain name.. As for SEO, even between 'www' and domain without 'www' makes difference as google defines these two as separate websites. And what you're about to do is to change your entire domain.. even if it's redirect it harmfully affects SEO, so I would think twice before doing such bold decision

  5. #5
    Quote Originally Posted by 5freehosting View Post
    I would rather just park domain y to your existing domain x as it would apply a new domain for your old website, but you wouldn't lose your good position on google search engine, which is way more important than some new fancy domain name.. As for SEO, even between 'www' and domain without 'www' makes difference as google defines these two as separate websites. And what you're about to do is to change your entire domain.. even if it's redirect it harmfully affects SEO, so I would think twice before doing such bold decision
    Very good points. Be careful not to have the same content available on different domains as it can appear as duplicate content which could affect SERPs etc.
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