What's the best way to set up 301's from an old off-site subdomain to a new off-site subdomain?

[VermilionDesignInteractive]

We are moving our Online store to a new service and we need to create 301's for all of the old product URLs. Being that the old store was hosted off-site, what is the best way to handle the 301 re-directs? Thanks!

[Nobody1560986989723]

If you're happy with the URL structure then a straightforward site-wide redirect from the old sub-domain to the new sub-domain should suffice. You can commonly achieve this with .htaccess or web.config depending on what server you are hosted on.

Are you doing a simple copy of the site to a new location or are you changing URLs/structure along the way?

[VermilionDesignInteractive]

Thanks Martin! I wish it were that simple. The URL is changing significantly. Also, we need to re-direct individual products to their new location...any ideas on that?

[Nobody1560986989723]

If an entire structure is changing then it depends to what depth. Basically, are there rules you can apply?

i.e. domain.com/products/[product-group]/product-name/

to

domain.com/[category]/product-name/

If there are rules like that then it reduces you work to pattern matching URLs and redirecting them accordingly, and I can post you .htaccess entries.

If the product names/URL and categories etc are changing then it may boil down to redirecting each URL individually, which for an e-commerce site will be a huge manual job. On the upside, you know for certain URL A --> URL B.

Let me know what applies and I'll let you know what to do Have had to handle domain moves (we are just about to do it again for our own site) so I know it's a headache you want to get right first time.

Oh and make sure you've got BOTH the old and new domains authorised in Google Webmaster Tools before you do the move