: How to purge old links in google from an old domain Recently, I uploaded a new site to an existing domain and I'd like to figure out how I can forward all links to said domain to a new

@Pope3001725

You need to do 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs. If all you did was change the domain name then this will work for you (place this in a file called .htaccess in your root web directory):

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) www.newdomain.com/ [R=301,L]


If the domain is the same you'll need to do 301 redirects for each page. If the new URLs follow a pattern related to old URLs you can do this all with one rule like above but how that is done will depend on the URLs. If there is no pattern you can do them all one at a time using the same technique as above:

redirect 301 /old/old.htm www.you.com/new.htm

Just write that line in your .htaccess file for each page you wish to redirect.

I'd leave the .htaccess file in place for all long as you have the website. That way anyone who still comes across an old URL will be able to find the new one easily and transparently.

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