Combining 2 blogs into one. What is quicker, easier and better - rel canonical or an htaccess/ 301?

[charlesgrimm]

The objective I have is to archive an entire blog (which I no longer have time to keep up) with multiple posts over  4years , into another blog as a a folder. My question: would it be quicker and easier to do a rel canonical, or separately list all pages in htaccess and do a 301 redirect.

[eyepaq]

Hi,

It's important to know the number of the pages - as for 301 you do have some limits as far as overall numbers per domain.

If the number is irrelevant (small) then 301 is the best solution for sure.

Hope it helps.

[Highland]

301 is all three at once. .htaccess makes it crazy easy to make all your blog posts 301 to their new home.

Canonical is only when you want to keep both URLs. It lets you suggest to Google which duplicate content will will the index race. 301 is always preferable since it removes the old location and points to the new.

[charlesgrimm]

Thanks eyepaq. I control the domain hosting so pages is only important in relation to time.

[charlesgrimm]

Is there an easy way to copy all the post page archive /links properly into htaccess for 301? Thanks

[Highland]

Most blogs have some sort of export functionality. I would imagine that should expedite the process for you. As for fixing the internal links... I would take your export file and use something like Notepad++ to find and replace the old URLs.