Redirecting site traffic

[figment]

Basecode firefox extension for Basecamp project management is getting about 1000 visitors a month from search results.

I have now launched version 2 of the extension but placed it on a different domain as a marketing tool for that app when it launches. Basecode 2 Firefox extension for Basecamp

What would be the best way to redirect that traffic over to the new domain without effecting the search rankings too much?

 

[Cormac]

a 301 redirect within the spoiltchild root should do the trick...

Redirect 301 /basecode/ http://www.toddle.ie/basecode2/[URL="http://www.toddle.ie/basecode2/"][/URL]

http://www.toddle.ie/basecode2/

 

[figment]

Thanking you muchly.

 

[Thomas Holmes]

You may also need to redirect individual pages to their new equivalent if you haven't set up the new site with the same file structure. The FAQ for example comes up in search results but doesn't redirect in a straight-forward way:

http://www.toddle.ie/basecode2/2005/01/faq.htm doesn't exist.

So you need to go through everything that is in the old basecode folder and redirect it to its new equivalent. Put the specific redirects first then the more general ones after.

Just been through something similar moving my blog. Sweet looking extension btw!

 

[RedCardinal]

301 redirect at the most granular level possible - page to page.

And then get some decent links pointing at the new domain. SHould be the fastest way to get the 301 to stick.

 

[RedCardinal]

I love that phrase 'IP delivery', most especially so when it's placed in quotes

Of course you would need to have a database of IPs to block ;-)

 

[figment]

Why are you using a subdomain for this, as opposed to just dynamically serving up different content? A/B tests are pretty common.
You could just use "IP delivery", exclude the bots from traffic sent to the beta (if the beta is different enough to worry about). If you use a subdomain, I'd also exclude the bots from access to the beta subdomain via robots.txt. What you don't want is for the bots to index the beta page. Could be dup issues depending on the content, and certainly competitive issues.

Its not a sub domain but a totally different domain entirely.
What Dup issues if all traffic is being redirected with 301?
What competitive issues?