Old website with new domain name - A questions about re-directs

[wisedave]

Hello,


I have a website hosted with a company that is in liquidation. It's a bespoke site for our business. Luckily, I am almost finished with a new Wordpress site that should go live in a week or two.


My original website has a decent amount of relevant backlinks, PR and organic traffic. I wanted to use re-directs to our new site to pass that 'juice' to the new website. The old website is a .co.uk whereas the new website is a .com if that matters.


My question is this....do I have to have a 'copy' of old website and host it in order to use re-directs properly or is there some other technical means to do this without getting hosting for the 'old' site? So far, my emails are not going answered and I can't get ahold of them and am freaking out a bit.


I just want to ensure that my new site is properly set up with the re-directs from the old site and apparently they aren't/cant' help! Luckily, I have changed them from being the domain registrar. Those are being held with Namecheap.


Any thoughts or ideas would be appreciated!


Cheers,


Dave

[Keimos]

Hi Dave,

A quick and easy solution is to park the .co.uk domain and have it automatically re-direct to the .com domain you can mark the parked domain with a 301 direct that will show it has been permanently moved, most backlinks will be to the main page (www.yoursite.co.uk), for individual pages you would need to have the old domain hosted with re-directs in place.

I have used this to re-direct dormant domains but at least I have picked up traffic for the parked sites.

Hope this helps,

Regards
keith