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Redirect Entire Website/Domain and SEO implications

by ThisIsMeNow
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Site A is 7+ years old with good ranking and traffic. I created Site B where the niche of Site A is expanded with more categories and more products, keeping also all content from Site A. I added canonical tag to Site B in order not to get penalized for duplicate content.

I decided though that best would be to redirect Site A to Site B and just have one site. Obviously I'd like to keep the ranking and the traffic. That would be the purpose actually, to transfer the ranking and traffic of Site A to Site B (which has barly any traffic yet).

Do I have to redirect every single page one by one with 301 redirect or can I just redirect the entire domain on hover.com at domain level?

In case I have to create 301 redirects page by page, do I need a web hosting to host the .htacess file or can I set this up at hover.com?
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    Originally Posted by ThisIsMeNow View Post

    Site A is 7+ years old with good ranking and traffic. I created Site B where the niche of Site A is expanded with more categories and more products, keeping also all content from Site A. I added canonical tag to Site B in order not to get penalized for duplicate content.

    I decided though that best would be to redirect Site A to Site B and just have one site. Obviously I'd like to keep the ranking and the traffic. That would be the purpose actually, to transfer the ranking and traffic of Site A to Site B (which has barly any traffic yet).

    Do I have to redirect every single page one by one with 301 redirect or can I just redirect the entire domain on hover.com at domain level?

    In case I have to create 301 redirects page by page, do I need a web hosting to host the .htacess file or can I set this up at hover.com?

    You need to redirect each individual page to its corresponding new page. If you just redirect the entire domain, you will likely lose the rankings those individual pages had.

    It needs to be done in the .htaccess file.

    I have no idea what hover.com is, but Site A needs to be hosted somewhere. It could even be on the same account as SIte B.
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      I'm paying webflow.com $20/month for hosting each website that has a CMS. So I would not like to pay that if all they need to host is a .htaccess file. So then I could host it a bluehost or something and include all the 301 redirect in the .htaccess file, right?

      hover.com is a domain registrar
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