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Permalink Help! Purchased Old Domain

by Lost Leader
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I purchased an old PR4 domain that had multiple PR3 pages. One of the old pages cached in Google was:

www.yourdomain.com/index.php?page=membership

I created a new wordpress site. Changed the Permalinks to custom and created the page above. When the page displayed it displayed as:

www.yourdomain.com/index-phppagemembership/

Notice the ? OR = did not carry through to the new page and the . changed to a -. Also, a "/" was placed on the end of the domain name. What can I do to fix that? Or, can anyone point me in the right direction? I have searched and cannot find the answer (I may not even be asking the right question).

Thanks


Of course the reason I am doing this is to re-create the PR3 page for its link power.

Also, is there a way to redirect a non-existent page (never existed on my site; but existed on the previous site) to a new page?
#domain #permalink #purchased
  • Profile picture of the author RichKent
    A ? in a URL is a query string. You can't use the 'pretty' permalink structure and include a query string in WordPress, and even if you use one of the other options you won't be able to set a query string of ?pagemembership (at least not that I know of).

    I'd suggest redirecting the old content to clean URLs. The content on this page should get you started: php - Rewrite rule that removes query string from URL and redirect - Stack Overflow

    You can also try running WordPress › Redirection « WordPress Plugins, and redirect URLs there. Good luck!
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    • Profile picture of the author Lost Leader
      Thank you for your reply. The old domain was expired and dropped. I never owned it. Just know the pages exist from site:domain.com/...

      Can I redirect a page that never existed on my website to begin with? If I do, will the original Google page stay cached? (I want to keep the PR3 of the page).
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      • Profile picture of the author RichKent
        Originally Posted by Lost Leader View Post

        Thank you for your reply. The old domain was expired and dropped. I never owned it. Just know the pages exist from site:domain.com/...

        Can I redirect a page that never existed on my website to begin with? If I do, will the original Google page stay cached? (I want to keep the PR3 of the page).
        Yes you can redirect a page that used to exist on the domain to a new page that currently exists on the domain. Assuming their are backlinks to the old page a 301 redirect is the ideal way to pass the link juice along to a new page.

        Note that on a dropped domain there's a good chance that the page will lose its page rank next time Google does a PR update - but cross your fingers and you might get lucky!
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