Timeline for When aquiring a company and website, how should their website be redirected?
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 21:33 | comment | added | closetnoc | Yes. But I have no idea how that is done exactly. This appears to be the documentation on this: technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732969%28v=ws.10%29.aspx though it is for IIS 7 and not 8. I assume that they are identical or similar. You can get to the IIS 8 documentation from this page. If anyone has an IIS example, they can edit my answer and I will accept it or they can create an answer and I will up-vote it. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 21:27 | vote | accept | brandozz | ||
| Jan 12, 2015 at 21:17 | comment | added | brandozz | Ok, now I understand the blanket redirect. Is a blanket redirect possible on a windows server? | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 19:44 | comment | added | closetnoc | Yes. It is a page on the old site. It wold help the search engine primarily, however, any user that hits the old site with /about/aboutus.html would be redirected to the new site and new page. The blanket redirect simply moves the request for oldsite.com/about/aboutus.html to newsite.com/about/aboutus.html. If this page does not exist, then a redirect on the new site is needed to correct the reference to the right page. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 18:21 | comment | added | brandozz | So in your example above is /about/aboutus.html a page that was on the old site? If so, then that redirect would be strictly for search engines and not site visitors since that blanket redirect takes any user visiting oldsite.com/about/aboutus.html to www.newsite.com. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 18:02 | history | edited | closetnoc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Gave code samples to be clearer.
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| Jan 12, 2015 at 17:56 | comment | added | closetnoc | When I use the term blanket redirect, I am saying that the entire site is being redirected. Then on the new site, you do the work of redirecting on a page by page basis. I will update the answer. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 17:44 | comment | added | brandozz | So this redirect is basically just created for search engines correct? Since the blanket redirect from the old site goes to the home page of the new. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 17:39 | comment | added | closetnoc | I would only for the pages on the old site I want represented. I would then find the best page on the new site to redirect to. Otherwise, I would not redirect a page from the old site that I do not care about. That way, it will 404 error and be removed from the search engines eventually. | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 17:35 | comment | added | brandozz | Ok, that's basically what we did, blanket redirect from the old site to the new and recreated the pages on our new site. The urls are not the same thought, should I create redirects that mimic the old site/page structure to the new? | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 17:32 | comment | added | closetnoc | My bad!! If you want the old page on the new server, you simply move it over. If the sites use two different CMS, then there is a technical issue that has to be looked at. But it does not sound like this is your situation. Perhaps I am not understanding you correctly. I got that you have both domain names pointing to the same site. Is that right?? | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 17:25 | comment | added | brandozz | Doesn't the blanket 301 from the old site remove the page that the user was originally on? So what good is the 301 from the old page to the new page on the new website/server? So if I try to go to www.aquired.com/product/blue-widget and it redirects to www.new-owner.com, what good is the redirect from /product/blue-widget on the server where www.new-owner.com resides? | |
| Jan 12, 2015 at 16:54 | history | answered | closetnoc | CC BY-SA 3.0 |