Andy HopkinsonHi all,
I need some advice as what to do for best.
The current situation is this:
I have a (.com) website with a company that I want to move.
I have control of the nameservers and now have my own hosting accounts too (through a reseller account).
I have built a new site on wordpress on a different domain (.co.uk) on my own hosting so I have some experience of c-panel.
The current .com site is on a weird content management system and is hosted on windows servers and by the end of the month won't exist so I can't do anything other than meta redirects as the site is now.
What I want to do is redirect each page of the .com site to a relevent page on the new .co.uk site without loosing the 2000+ backlinks I have to the old .com domain. They are mostly deeplinks so a page to page redirect is the best way to go I think.
Where do I start with this?
I'm thinking of setting up a copy of the .com site or (directory at least as I can't copy or replicate the current content due to the system) on my own hosting and redirecting each of the old page url's to a equivalent page on the .co.uk wordpress site.
What would be the best way to do this?
According to google webmaster tools, I need to alter the .htaccess file on the .com site and redirect each page to a page on the new .co.uk domain. Problem is, I don't have access to that (as there isn't one!) and won't have that domain hosted after the end of the month unless I set up a 'copy' of the .com site on my webhost.
Would I be better to set up a new wordpress site on the .com domain using the same file structure as the current .com and use one of the 301 redirect plugins?
My webhost accounts are all on apache so I could use a .config file to do the work if I needed to.
I'm confused! I have some knowledge of where things go and what I should be doing but it doesnt take much for me to mess things up so simpler the better please!
