From Subdomain to a new top level Domain

[bluearrow]

I'm going to move a site which i have kept in a SubDomain to a New domain name. the site receive like 10,000 uniques per month.

How should I do it with minimum impacts on seo ?

If I leave a redirection to new domain how long page serp would stay for subdomain ?

Even the domain would receive the traffic from subdomain would it be sandboxed ?

Roughly how long new domain would take to recover and start getting its own traffic ?

Please share your experience about this.

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[Keral_Patel]

If it is getting 10,000 hits and also has some unique content then it will not have much problems in establishing its authority on a newer domain name.

Yes the redirect from that subdomain name to the new one is a good idea.

About exact time Can't say but don't see much problems maybe decrease in traffic for somedays or so. But it will all be back to normal

 

[bluearrow]

Permanent 301 redirect would be the best way to do it ? though i would have to redirect page by page ? ( site has around 400 pages )

I haven't done it before so could you explain how it would be done ? also the code i should put in the .htaccess file ?

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[Keral_Patel]

It could be done with some scripting part too. To export the parameters and then generate the whole .htaccess.

For single page it would be something like

"Redirect 301 /old-file.htm http://www.mywebsite.com/new-file.htm"

 

[dan_Vt]

I moved a site from one domain to another (essentially what you're doing) and it took 4 to 5 months to regain all previous rankings. After doing the actual move (which was easy, I redirected everything so I didn't have to go page by page) I contacted sites linking to me and asked them to update their links. This is something you should do. Many webmasters are responsive, and the most powerful links I had were moved within a week. This will help you recover faster than you otherwise might.

This code will do your entire site, and redirect all non-www traffic to www.

RewriteEngine on

rewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?OLDDOMAIN\.com$ [NC]
rewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.NEWDOMAIN.com/$1 [R=301,L] 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^NEWDOMAIN\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.NEWDOMAIN.com/$1 [R=301,L]