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  Question about 301 redirecting a website.

  Posted by seohelper on April 9, 2020 at 9:35 pm

  I want to 301 redirect a website to my main website but trying not to lose the backlink profile. Website1 has backlinks coming to the www, non www, http and https version. Do i have to redirect all these to 1 version and then redirect the whole domain or can I just redirect whole domain without fixing the different versions?

  Studio_7 replied 5 years, 1 month ago 1 Member · 1 Reply
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  Studio_7

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  April 9, 2020 at 10:23 pm

  You’ll want to do two things:

  * 301 Redirect your canonical URL from the old site to the new site:
  (`https://oldsite.tld –301–> https://newsite.tld`)
  * Set up your webserver config (NGINX or Apache) to rewrite/redirect all traffic (i.e. http-www, http-non-www, https-www all get rewritten to your canonical https-non-www).

  This should take care of things without losing any ranking signals.

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