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Hi,

I just bought an old domain with good backlinks and authority, that domain was technology product formerly.

So, I want to make this domain for my money site. The purpose of this website is to serve technological information like WordPress tutorial and etc (free software or drivers).

And I just installed a sub directory on this domain like https://maindomain.com/subdirectory/ and this directory I made for a free software like graphics drivers download (NVIDIA or AMD). What you think with this website? Is it make sense?

Wait, I just added this domain to my campaign at MOZ and the result shown my sub directory was 6 times of crawl depth. Is it good for directory or I need to move the sub directory to my main site?

Thank you, hope someone answer my confuse.

Best Regard, Matthew.

Hi Steve,

Sorry for my delayed reply. I was busy on my offline business.

But, thanks for you help. It really help and my question has been solved wit your answer above

Hi Steve, thanks for still being here to solve my problem.

For sure, I will do what you tell me to do. I will still use 301 redirect for the moment and maybe permanently to make sure it'll goes correctly.

I'm using WordPress as my CMS. And Steve, I want to ask you about Screaming From crawl. When I crawl my old domain on the software, it shown that just my homepage alone not all my article/post/inner page. You can check my screenshot below.

Is it true? Or I was implemented a wrong redirect code?

Can you tell me how to implement 301 redirect correctly via htacess file? I need this. Or you can check my current implementation below.

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://new-domain.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]</ifmodule>

Is that true? Or I need to add some code more?

Thank you before.

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for your kind reply, and here some info that you need:

• I redirected old-domain.com to new-domain.com with a 301 redirect
• I've been tested all the pages on my old domain/URL and that's work finely
• This redirect happen because I want to rebrand my website
• I've checked my old domain on Screaming Frog and all my old URL redirected to my new URL successfully

And I would like to take your suggestion to backup and delete all my content on my old website, maybe this can free up my hosting space, right?

One more question, how long I need to redirect the old domain to new domain? permanently or what?

Thank you.

Matthew

Hi,

I want to ask what need I do to the old content after my 301 redirect to the new domain with the same content success?

Do I need to remove that old content? Nothing bad happen right?

Thanks

Hi Steve,

Thanks for your kind reply, and here some info that you need:

• I redirected old-domain.com to new-domain.com with a 301 redirect
• I've been tested all the pages on my old domain/URL and that's work finely
• This redirect happen because I want to rebrand my website
• I've checked my old domain on Screaming Frog and all my old URL redirected to my new URL successfully

And I would like to take your suggestion to backup and delete all my content on my old website, maybe this can free up my hosting space, right?

One more question, how long I need to redirect the old domain to new domain? permanently or what?

Thank you.

Matthew

Hi Steve, thanks for still being here to solve my problem.

For sure, I will do what you tell me to do. I will still use 301 redirect for the moment and maybe permanently to make sure it'll goes correctly.

I'm using WordPress as my CMS. And Steve, I want to ask you about Screaming From crawl. When I crawl my old domain on the software, it shown that just my homepage alone not all my article/post/inner page. You can check my screenshot below.

Is it true? Or I was implemented a wrong redirect code?

Can you tell me how to implement 301 redirect correctly via htacess file? I need this. Or you can check my current implementation below.

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^old-domain.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.old-domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://new-domain.com/$1 [L,R=301,NC]</ifmodule>

Is that true? Or I need to add some code more?

Thank you before.

15167685e9a3183b6303c7110790e1d88d59c29c40d32a12cb00b60ae76a1b744aa5d745.jpg