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    • MarloSchneider
      MarloSchneider last edited by

      Not an unusual situation, I have a blog on blog.domain.com it has quite a few blog postings.  The platform is old and will be scrapped, but the blog content itself is going to be moved to domain.com/blog.

      The current process is we are manually listing all linked to/content pages and we are going to 301 redirect them to their counterparts on the new blog.  This is going to be a tedious process.

      A) Is there any way to automate the moving of the blog?

      B) What is the best way to do the massive 301 redirect, php headers, .htaccess?  Should we move the individual pages with redirects, or redirect the domain in the .htaccess (this will be very difficult to match all the titles and file structure)?

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      • jaraca
        jaraca last edited by

        Hi Keri.

        You're right! I am not a professional in the matter and I am trying to catch up little by little.

        Thanks for your advice!

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        • KeriMorgret
          KeriMorgret last edited by

          This thread is actually four years old, and the original poster mentioned that the problem was solved so no worries! You might want to look at more recent questions, as SEO advice can change as the search engines change.

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          • MarloSchneider
            MarloSchneider @MarloSchneider last edited by

            We solved it, our web programmer wrote a program to scrape all of our posts and turn them into a format that imported into wordpress.  As far as the redirects we kept the page titles the same and did a sitewide 301 that sent them from blog.example.com to example.com/blog/

            Although I would still like to grab Richard's php script for doing this in a more efficient manner in the future.

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            • A_Q
              A_Q @Getz.pro last edited by

              It will if you add r=301 to the last line like so:

              RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1 [L,R=301]

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              • KeriMorgret
                KeriMorgret @MarloSchneider last edited by

                Spencer, did you get this taken care of off-line, or is this question still open?

                [Keri Morgret, SEOmoz Associate]

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                • MarloSchneider
                  MarloSchneider @Getz.pro last edited by

                  Would you mind posting or messaging me the correct script?  It would be a great help, thanks.

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                  • Getz.pro
                    Getz.pro @Dan-Petrovic last edited by

                    Yup, that will do the job of relocation, but it does not 301 the link and therefore you will not transfer link juice.

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                    • Dan-Petrovic
                      Dan-Petrovic last edited by

                      Found this one:

                      RewriteEngine On
                      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.mysite.com
                      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /blog/$1 [L]

                      Source: http://www.scriptygoddess.com/archives/2007/06/13/redirect-a-subdomain-to-a-directory-using-htaccess/

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                      • Getz.pro
                        Getz.pro last edited by

                        I am mobile, so excuse the typos 🙂 Using PHP, grab the incoming title and do a 301 header redirect to the new location. No need to mass 301 in .htaccess. 🙂 If you need the script, let me know

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