Right redirect to transfer juice www, no-www and website movement

[darkanweb]

Hi here is my problem, I have a website which works both with www. and without www; Now I want to optimize it and transfer it to another new domain  along with the link juice of both the old domain with www and without www. I don't want to do it with multiple redirects but with just one clean redirect (I know that search engines don't like that, am I right?). What should I write in the .htaccess of the old domain and in the one of the new domain?

To summarize I want something like that:

www.oldsite.com/anyfile.html>301>www.newsite.com/anyfile.html

oldsite.com/anyfile.html>301>www.newsite.com/anyfile.html

newsite.com/anyfile.html>301?>www.newsite.com/anyfile.html

Thanks

[Matt-Williamson]

Hi Simone

I think this will help solve your problem -

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/url-rewrites-and-301-redirects-how-does-it-all-work

and how to actually do it -

http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php/

You will only need to create the redirect in the old domains htaccess file so that all traffic to the old domain will go to the new one.

[darkanweb]

This is general information about the topic that I already know. What I need is the exact code to insert in my .htaccess to be sure that I am doing the best redirects for my specific case.

Thanks anyway Matt.

[Matt-Williamson]

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.co.uk$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.co.uk$

RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.newdomain.co.uk" [R=301,L]

Add this to your .htaccess file of your oldsite and it will redirect both www. and none www. to your new domain passing on link juice - sorry I wasn't specific before.

[darkanweb]

Ok thank you very much for the useful answer. I have one more question for you. What about if I want to redirect page by page?

Is something like this going to work?

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$

RewriteRule ^page1.html "http://www.newdomain.com/page1.html" [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^page2.html "http://www.newdomain.com/page2.html" [R=301,L]

[Matt-Williamson]

Yes if you just want to redirect individual pages like that - you could have it so any requests on the domain www and none redirect to the new domain and then specific pages can point to specific pages - see below:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.co.uk$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.co.uk$

RewriteRule ^/?$ "http://www.newdomain.co.uk" [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^page2.html$ "http://www.newdomain.com/page2.html" [R=301,L]