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Hello all,

I've got a site on an old googlepages.com site that has a fairly high searching engine result for choice keywords and I'd like to redirect search engines to a new domain address. Now I understand that this can be accomplished with 301 redirects but I do not have that level of control through the googlepages interface on the old site.

So I did some research and I found one solution that seems feasible. In this solution the author suggests that you:

  1. Replace your current site with a single link to the new site which also passes parameters which tell which page it's coming from.
  2. On that page figure out what is the corresponding page on the new site.
  3. Send a 301 redirect back to the browser to the corresponding page.

So the question is, is this feasible and will it work? Are there better solutions out there?

Thanks.

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This solution involves multiple redirects/links and this doesn't seem really effective to me.

If you can't control the response at header-level for the old site, then every solution wouldn't ensure a smooth transition to the new site.

A few months ago, some tests demonstrates that the majority of search engines handles meta refresh as a 301 redirect if the value is set to 0.

You can try this solution. For every page in the original site, empty the content and leave a blank page with a meta tag refresh to the corresponding page on the new site and a plain link with something like "this page has moved. You are being redirected to http://path/to/the/page".

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