301 Redirect Questions

[photoseo1]

I have a site I built on a wisiwig editing platform that will not allow a 301 redirect. The site has already been remade and I need to point it to another domain.

To do the redirect, can I change it to another domain host that will allow a 301 or will that make me loose the authority of the site? I may not be able to move the content of the site.

Please help.

[riplash]

If you can keep the domain, and point it at the nameservers of your new 301 friendly host, you should be able to keep most of the authority if you then redirect to a new domain. If you can do that, however, why do you need to change domains at all?

[ufmedia]

The quick-and-dirty solution may be to implement a 301 wildcard redirect for the domain and any pages on that domain.  However, that is definitely the ugly way to do it.  Can you tell us what editing platform you're using?  Is it an open source platform?  If so you may be able to find a plugin that will allow for manual 301 redirects.

[danbocain]

If you are on an Apache server and have FTP access, you can setup 301 redirects using .htaccess

The proper format for this is as followed:

redirect 301 /oldurl.html http://domain.com/the-full-url

[polarking]

Neil has a good point. Also work with a GOOD webmaster if you are not totally comfortable changing domain servers. I had a mess last year when my less than qualified IT department didn't pay attention to 301s. Good luck! Google webmastertools has some helpful advice for this.

[photoseo1]

The site is hosted by Intuit. I called yesterday and they said that because of the language it is written in it isn't possible to do a 301.

[polarking]

I posted your last comment in another forum so maybe you can get some insight into this situation. I can share the forum with you if you want to follow it. As a person that has worried about 301s in the past I hope I can help someone else

[polarking]

Intuit probably doesn't allow access to the htaccess. If you move your site to one that allows it you can then redirect them. I am not familiar with intuit but I worry that you are a subdomain of the intuit webstores. Storesonline uses this type of technique ( I am pretty sure) so no one every leaves in fear of losing rank and authority. If this is the case you may have some ruff waters ahead if you decide to leave. My personal not professional opinion is you will be better off if you move to another host and then within that host switching domain names. Check your site in semrush and see how many keywords you rank for and if it is far less than you thought this maybe the case. The site you built maybe good enough to climb the ranks quickly.

[photoseo1]

So if I do a 301 redirect with the new host do I have to take all the files from Intuit and host them with the new host or can I just transfer the domain name and do a 301 without transferring the files? Never had to deal with this before.

Both sites are on the first page for most of my keywords so I am good there.