Redirect without transferring backlinks

I thought that was the point? You want to redirect to a new
domain. Of course you need to have a new domain and pay
for that hosting. But the old domain you just keep it. Pay the
domain fee, of probably 10 bucks or less a year.

What I meant above was, go to the site that holds you domain.
Who did you register it with? That's the place to take it offline
and do a domain redirect from your account there. Mine does
it free, and I can only assume most do.

That way, the domain is nonexistent online.

Now here is another trick, but requires more money and domains.
Google only follows so many 301's. I think I read 5. So, 301 to
one domain, then 301 that domain, then 301 that domain, etc.
until you get to your new domain.

I think google follows 3, browsers will go 5 deep.

You can experiment with this silly idea if you wish. See how many
give a too many redirects error.

You could 301 to one site, meta refresh 0 to the new one, or use
it as an interstitial page.

The first suggestion is tops, however.

Neither 301 or 302 hides anything from google. The 302 could worse, as
the reasaon you are using it is to tell google that the sites are definitely
connected. Sort of like saying your site exists in more than one place, but
it's still the same site.

302 has its place, but not for this.

Paul