: How to claim ownership of a website in Webmaster tools if that website redirects to another site Ive got an old website that i want to 301 redirect to another website (using .htaccess). I

@Dunderdale272

Your best option is probably to verify using DNS. This will work no matter what sort of redirects you have in place. It also doesn't require you to keep up with any special redirect rules.

According to Google's help page, you should:



On the Search Console Home page, click the Manage Site button next
to the site you want, and then click Verify this site.
Click the Alternate methods tab.
Select Domain name provider.
Select your domain registrar and follow the instructions on your
screen. If your domain registrar isn't listed, select Other, and
follow the instructions to manually create a DNS record.
Click Verify. Removing the record from your server can cause your
site to become unverified, and you will need to go through the
verification process again.

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@Nimeshi995

Try this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/mygooglefile.txt$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ www.example.com/ [R=301,L]


Of course you will need to change the file name and the target domain name.

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