Redirect from old wordpress site to new php site? Best approach

[ocelot]

Hi

I have two websites one legacy site done in wordpress the other in php.  However I would like to merge the two together and remove the wordpress site.

However it has a good link profile and the pages rank well.

What is the best approach to do a 301 redirect from the old site with all its pages pointing to the homepage of the new site?

If so what's the best way to do this in wordpress?

Many thanks

[edwardlewis]

redirect the pages in the .htaccess file.

rather than redirect them all to the homepage, you should redirect them to the most relevant page on the other site.

why are you getting rid of one site?

[Naghirniac]

Ian,

You will need to do the follow:

1) Search pages indexed by google

You will need to do the 301 redirection only for the pages that google already indexed. To discovery then you need to google "site:www.example.com", where example.com is your website

2) Create the .htaccess file

Inside of the .htaccess file you will need to include:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

_redirect 301 /old.html http://www.example.com/new.html_

The first part is to avoid duplicated content from www.example.com and example.com. The line redirect 301 you will need to write for each page you need a redirection (founded at step 1). That's all.

[Vahe.Arabian]

Hi Ian,

Edward has started on the right step in terms

Ian I wouldn't say cms is too important as hosting and server details, because hosting & server is what limits your ability to migrate the website.

Check out this recent article - http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos  and go to the URL mapping section to get a comprehensive step by step guide. Focus on your best pages.

Naghirniac, rather than searching pages indexed by google, it would be better to use a site crawler like Xenu or screaming frog as it will find all duplicate and 404 pages for you.

Good luck,

V

[ocelot]

Can this be done?

on each page indexed?

Are there not any Wordpress plugins that would do this without delving into the htaccess file?

In your example you mention the code below, how would I change what I have below to redirect from my mydomain.co.uk site to point at the correct site mydomain.com site

And on the redirect 301 lines, how would I redirect - what would the code need to be?

www.mydomain.co.uk/sample to www.mydomain.com/newsamplepage.php

[ocelot]

Basically because there were too sites in tandem and when the business areas merged there is only a need for one site.

I am struggling with the best way to achieve this as described in my post at the bottom of this thread

[Vahe.Arabian]

Ian

• Meta refreshes should never be replaced with 301's, they are actual much worse than a 302 redirect.
• There are a few redirects you can find - http://www.aowaa.com/5-wordpress-301-redirect-plugin/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-301-redirects/. The disadvantage I find with using plugins is that they extremely slow down your site.
• For doing 301 redirects it's entirely up to the server your site is hosted on.