301 redirect?

[watto]

I recently 301 redirected my old url http://www.businesstrader.biz to my new url http://www.business-trader.com.au

Will my pr from my old url transfer to my new url, and when should I expect this to happen.

All information appreciated.

watto

[incrediblehelp]

Moved to "Search Engine Optimization Forum" as this post is more relevant there.

As for your PR moving from one domain to another. Don't worry if your PR number will be the same on the new website as it was on the old.

What you would like to happen is to have your old backlinks that were matched to the previous domain move over to the new one. The answer to this question is ALWAYS different for every website. Most of the time if a proper 301 redirect is put in place 3-4 months later Google will update the backlinks. Yahoo usually takes a bit longer depending on when they picked up your change and their algo update cycle.

I assume your doing the redirect because you want to focus and perform better on the Australian search engines?

OK now I went in and checked the header on http://www.businesstrader.biz/. It seems to be doing a 302, not a 301 redirect. Is this something you wan to do? If so it is OK. I have heard some report good (faster) results doing a 302 redirect for a week or two and then switching to a 301 redirect. Is this your plan?

As always the best way to make this change go quicker to to contact the websites linking to you and have them change their links to you.

[watto]

Hi and thanks for your reply.

Well, my intention was to do a 301 from the start, and I was advised to place the following code in my htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^BUSINESSTRADER.biz$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.BUSINESSTRADER.biz$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.BUSINESS-TRADER.com.au/$1 [R,L]

I was unaware that I have done a 302.
This code has been in place for aroung 3 - 4 weeks now. What should I do next?

watto

[incrediblehelp]

Change from a 302 to a 301 and wait about 2-3 months.

[watto]

I'm not quite sure what code I should be pasting in my htaccess file, as I was told that the code I have is for a 301??????

cheers

Watto

[incrediblehelp]

Originally Posted by watto

I'm not quite sure what code I should be pasting in my htaccess file, as I was told that the code I have is for a 301??????

cheers

Watto

huh? Yes you want to implement a 301 redirect, not 302. Let me know when you change it and I will check on my side for you.

[mikesmith76]

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^BUSINESSTRADER.biz$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.BUSINESSTRADER.biz$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.BUSINESS-TRADER.com.au/$1 [R,L]

Try changing the above code to

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^BUSINESSTRADER.biz$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.BUSINESSTRADER.biz$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.BUSINESS-TRADER.com.au/$1 [R=301,L]

That should do what you require. The only change is the addition of the 301 status code to your rewriterule

[watto]

I have now made the changes.

Thanks for the code mikesmith........

Hopefully this will head me in the right direction.

thanks for all of your help.

watto

[incrediblehelp]

Yes it is working fine:

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:37:12 GMT
Server: Apache Web Server
Location: http://www.BUSINESS-TRADER.com.au/
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1