Redirect from old domain to a new domain
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Hi,
assuming i have an old domain that i would like to redirect it to the new domain because the old domain contain good links on it and been ranking for its keywords. Would it be a wise choice?
and can i redirect my sub domain into my new one too? for example
website1.com/life > website2.com/life
and how do i do so? can i do that by hosting the old domain in my new domain hosting and do all those redirect include sub domain redirect?
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If you are planning to redirect old domain from the new one you probably have to have a complete plan. Make a list of what you ideally want to achieve from the website and how redirect can help you with that.
If you have links on different pages of the website so ideally you should do page to page redirect so that all the authority of website one (on any page of the website) will redirect to the new version.
Make sure all the redirects are 301 and not 302.
Hope this helps!
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