Basic Redirection Question
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I am doing a 301 Redirect from site ABC to site XYZ. I loaded the following .htaccess file by ftp to the ABC.com/ server:
Redirect 301 / http://XYZ.com/
This was completed over 30 days ago, OSE is not showing any of the links and is failing to show that abc.com is redirected even though the MozBar shows a successful 301 http status code. Is this still just a waiting game or is it not advised to do a redirect this way for seo?
PS: ahrefs is showing the redirect itself, however, it is not showing the links going to site ABC.com/ as passing to site XYZ.com/ . Any help is appreciated.
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Sounds to me like you only redirected homepage to homepage. Instead, you probably should have programmed the following into htaccess...
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.example.com [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.net/$1 [L,R=301,NC]
Of course, you will want to replace example.com and example.net with your old domain and new domain.
When you write it up in htaccess like I pasted above this way, you are doing an entire domain redirect. Source: http://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/website/redirects/setting-up-a-301-permanent-redirect-via-htaccess
I have that page bookmarked for when I do SEO work through htaccess - maybe you should do the same :).
Hope this helps. Good luck!
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