How to redirect domain from www.example.it to www.example.eu?

Question

Our company need to migrate domain from: www.example.it -> www.example.eu

The example.it have some links with 301 redirects like:

example.it/index.php?id=10&link=slug (301 redirect to) -> example.it/c10/slug

and one more redirect:

example.it/10/static-keyword/slug (301 redirect to) -> example.it/c10/slug

Now we want to migrate the site. How should I redirect the website?

1) Leave old redirect in example.it and than only original links redirect to example.eu. In example:

example.it/index.php?id=10&link=slug (301 redirect to) -> example.it/c10/slug (301 redirect to) -> example.eu/c10/slug

example.it/10/static-keyword/slug (301 redirect to) -> example.it/c10/slug (301 redirect to) -> example.eu/c10/slug

2) All links redirect to example.eu and then do all other redirects. In example:

example.it/index.php?id=10&link=slug (301 redirect to) -> example.eu/index.php?id=10&link=slug (301 redirect to) -> example.eu/c10/slug

example.it/10/static-keyword/slug (301 redirect to) -> example.eu/10/static-keyword/slug (301 redirect to) -> example.eu/c10/slug

Answer 1

If possible, try to use only one 301 redirection. 301 redirects transfer SEO juice, but you lose a part of it for every one of them (around 10-15%).

You should make a rule to redirect specific cases first, like: example.it/index.php?id=10&link=slug (301 redirect to) -> example.eu/c10/slug...

Then, if none of these rules are triggered, you should apply example.it -> example.eu redirection.

That way, all your specific pages will redirect immediately to a proper URL and the rest of them will redirect to the same URL on a different domain.

Answer 2

In an .htaccess file you could specify the following:

RewriteEngine on 
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.example.eu/$1 [R=301,L]