Parked Domain Redirect Problem: Subpages Won't Redirect!

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So I created several landing pages for my client and put them on their website, www. micpa.com. Most all of them ranked quickly, but I noticed a few pages weren't within the top 100 results, and I discovered that Google had indexed the parked domain for these subpages instead of their main domain that I track.

Their parked domain is www. mcclureinserra.com.
Example: Google had indexed www. mcclureinserra.com/cpa-firm-accounting-south-barrington-inverness-il

instead of www. micpa.com/cpa-firm-accounting-south-barrington-inverness-il, which is the domain I do all the SEO for.

I thought it'd be an easy fix, I'd just 301 redirect the parked domain to the main one and that'd be that.

So I set up the redirect in cpanel for www. mcclureinserra.com to go to www. micpa.com, which it now does. But the subpages DO NOT redirect even though I set up a 301 redirect within cpanel (I did not manually edit the .htaccess file).

Anyone have an idea why the subpages for the parked domain would not be redirecting even though I've set up a 301 redirect for the domain (which works) and for the subpage specifically (which doesn't seem to do anything)?
#website design #domain #parked #problem #redirect #subpages
  • Could you please show me the htaccess ? Thanks
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    • Sure, here it is:

      Code:
      RewriteOptions inherit

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Redirect 301 /business_helps.htm http://www.micpa.com/info-center#usefullinks
Redirect 301 /15.htm http://www.micpa.com/info-center#usefullinks
Redirect 301 /26.htm http://www.micpa.com/tax-services-cpa-chicago

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mcclureinserra.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.www.mcclureinserra.com$
RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.micpa.com" [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mcclureinserra.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.www.mcclureinserra.com$
RewriteRule ^cpa-firm-accounting-south-barrington-inverness-il/?$ "http://www.micpa.com/cpa-firm-accounting-south-barrington-inverness-il" [R=301,L]
  • I would use something like this if you want to route everything from olddomain to newdomain (same folder/name/file-structure ofcourse):

    Code:
    Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
#
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.newdomain.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
    Read more here:

    .htaccess / 301 redirect an entire site to new domain Apache Web Server forum at WebmasterWorld
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    • [1] reply
    • Cool, thanks Mike, I'll try that!
  • $5,00, man
  • Hey Mike, I put the code you suggested into the .htaccess, but that hasn't fixed the problem. mcclureinserra.com redirects to micpa.com, but subpages don't redirect. example:
    http://www. mcclureinserra.com/cpa-firm-accounting-south-barrington-inverness-il
  • Use some google

    mod rewrite - Redirect one domain and every sub-page to a different domain - Stack Overflow

  • After a long time of googling (seems a lot of people have this same problem, but no one's solution was actually working), I found this and it works! so for the reference of those who may come across this page later...

    Code:
    Options +FollowSymlinks -MultiViews
RewriteEngine on

# handles domain2/* -> domain1/* for http
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain2.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =80
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain1.com/$1 [R=301,L]

# handles domain2/* -> domain1/* for https
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?domain2.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://domain1.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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    Parked Domain Redirect Problem: Subpages Won't Redirect!

    So I created several landing pages for my client and put them on their website, www. micpa.com. Most all of them ranked quickly, but I noticed a few pages weren't within the top 100 results, and I discovered that Google had indexed the parked domain for these subpages instead of their main domain that I track. Their parked domain is www. mcclureinserra.com.