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[DigitalMarketingInstitute]

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[FedeEinhorn]

Unfortunately, that can't be done. The change of address feature allows only from one domain to another, but not to a specific subdirectory.

The implemented 301s should be enough. Have you 301 file by file or 301'ed the entire domain? As that is the way that it should be done (if you are using Apache that can be done with a simple rewrite rule). If you 301'ed the entire domain, soon Google will show a message that you no longer have access to that .co.uk and .ie domains.

Hope that helps!

[DigitalMarketingInstitute]

Thanks for the response Federico.

I've 301'd every page on the old site to the relevant page on the new website, rather than 301'ing the entire domain to the homepage which would be bad practice.

At least with subdirectories, within WMT I've been able to geotarget /UK/ to the UK, and /IE/ to Ireland.

[FedeEinhorn]

Anyway, you should find a solution to redirect the entire domain while "keeping" the URL structure in the new subdomain.

Example:

www.domain.co.uk/page1 redirects to www.domain.com/uk/page1

And for those pages that have no related or 404 you also redirect them by using a rewrite rule that redirects EVERYTHING to the new location, even under a subdirectory.

Rewrite rule example (for the .co.uk domain):

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