Redirect help
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I work for a company that has a domain that is something like www.neat-stuff.com but most people just use www.neatstuff.com without the dash. The redirect for the homepage works fine.
We recently launched a new site and if you use www.neat-stuff.com/category it redirects from the old site to the new site just fine.
However if you use www.neatstuff.com/category it does not properly redirect to www.neat-stuff.com/category.
How do I fix that?
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That is exactly what we ended up doing thanks for your help.
After site launch a few months ago we lost a lot of organic traffic. Think this will bring some of it back?
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As long as all your redirects are already working on the new site, you should be fine.
Look into the article I posted above. You essentially need to create a dummy non-www website in IIS that redirects to the new site. Right now you probably just have both the www and non-www versions declared in the host header of the new site.
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Couple of things. We have 20k pages or so. Individually redirecting that much would be a pain.
After working with some people we now have it to where www.neat-stuff.com/235425243 category on the new site redirects to www.neat-stuff.com/category on the new site correctly. Same thing with neatstuff.com/4544564 to www.neatstuff.com/category on the new site. Shouldn't it be to one?
For the home page both www.neatstuff.com and www.neat-stuff.com work but there is no redirect. When I run a checker it says direct link. I think we are being shown as a duplicate site.
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You'll have to put individual redirects in place if you want a specific old directory to redirect to a specific new directory. You can set those up in IIS on the www.neat-stuff.com website.
Then, if you append the $S$Q to the root of the neat-stuff.com (non-www) website, it should all work fine.
This writeup was helpful for me when I learned to set this up.
http://www.stronghost.co.uk/Redirecting-non-www-domain-to-www-domain/B23.htm
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On our old site the categories were /52352524 and one of the things we did on the new site was actually give them names so it is now /category WIll that still work with that?
Wanted to add that most of our current redirects are done dynamically because we use asp.net so if you go to category 34234 it will take you to the correct /category through a 301 redirect.
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in IIS for the redirecting website (neat-stuff.com) use this as the Redirect To url:
that'll redirect all directories and files as well.
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It is hosted on a Windows server. Do you have a similar fix for IIS?
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It is hosted on an IIS Windows server
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Not tested and I'm very sleepy this Friday afternoon, but the below should fix it.
NB, this will also redirect any subdomains.
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^neatstuff.com$ [OR] RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.neatstuff.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.neat-stuff.com/$1 [R=301,L]EDIT
As per JP above, this is a solution using .htaccess. If you're on a Windows server you'll need to use IIS. The below might help
<match url="(.*)"></match>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^neatstuff.com$"></add> <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.neat-stuff.com/{R:1}}" redirecttype="Permanent"></action>But again, I'm sleepy, so test things first
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I think it would depend. Where is your website hosted? On what type of server? There would be a different method for achieving this via Cpanel on a linux server than there would via IIS on a Windows server. etc.
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