Domain 301

[CotswoldD]

Hi Guys
I have a site domain peterhaken but i decided to change the domain to swankywed, so the same data was put on this new domain, but after advice i have reverted back to peterhaken
Firstly i just deleted the swankywed domain from my hosting
Then i installed the swankywed domain but just have a .htaccess file with this in it.
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RedirectMatch 301 ^(.*)$ blah blah peterhaken dot com
But now i see that when i search for my key pharses in Google, swankywed comes up instead of my peterhaken
Have been really working my domain peterhaken , but just seems to be dropping.But with all these changes i can understand this.
What should i do to completly remove swankywed from the internet?
Should i just remove the domain from hosting?
regards pete

 

[Community]

You need to be redirecting the entire domain, currently if you click on an internal page or homepage from swankywed from google's index you get a 404 page:

swankywed.com/destination-wedding-photography
swankywed.com

But you should be getting a 301 redirect.

Try something like this :

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.peterhaken.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The $1 at the end of the URL represents redirecting like for like so it doesnt redirect everything to the homepage.

 

[CotswoldD]

OK i have added the code you have suggested.

Will swankywed start to get removed now? and hopefully peterhaken will replace or start to climb?
some peterhaken pages rank, but not all

regards pete

 

[Community]

OK i have added the code you have suggested.

Will swankywed start to get removed now? and hopefully peterhaken will replace or start to climb?
some peterhaken pages rank, but not all

regards pete

Yes now the domain redirects properly to peterhaken, so as google recrawls swankywed over the coming months it will slowly pick up the 301 redirection and act accordingly .

 

[himmatrathore]

Hi,
Reverting is not so easy but you need to implement 301 redirections and it is the only solution.