Internet Marketing

301 Redirect Process

Redirect Incrementally

Instead of redirecting hundreds or thousands of pages all at once, move your site folder by folder. Doing so will allow you to make sure everything is working properly before you get too committed to the process, and to roll things back if there’s problems.

Google Webmaster Advice:

For each page on domain X, have it 301-redirect to the corresponding page on Y. (Do this through .htaccess)

You might want to stagger the move, and redirect sub-sections of your site over time. This gives you the chance to keep an eye on the effects, and also gives search engines crawl/indexing pipelines time to cover the space of redirected URL’s

Webmaster tools is your friend. Keep an eye on it during the transition to make sure that the redirects are having the effect you want it to have.

Give it time. How quickly the transition is reflected in the results depends on how quickly we re-crawl our site and see those redirects, which depends on a lot of factors including the current reputation of your sites pages.