Hey Sylwia, that’s a great question! If you still have access to the old domain name in question, then yes you should be fine to individually 301 redirect old posts/pages to their corresponding new locations on your new domain/website. If you’re talking about A LOT of pages/links though, then I wouldn’t personally take that approach… Google will be able to naturally detect that your website has essentially “moved” (after some time) as long as you take down your old site entirely and get all of your new content live soon.

Hey Carlos! Yep, that’s correct—I now recommend Easy Redirect Manager (https://wordpress.org/plugins/eps-301-redirects/) as the top plugin for managing your redirects. The previous one I was recommending stopped getting updates from the plugin creator and was getting out of date 🙂

I believe in a previous article you had recommended Quick Page & Post Redirect Plug-In. Do you recommend 301 Redirect as a better option? Which one is your preferred Plug-In?

Thank you, Carlos Da Silva

Hey Karo! My advice would be not to set up a 301 redirect in this case (since you’ll be 301 redirecting from Domain A to Domain B)…

I’d recommend simply publishing the article on your main domain as a new piece of content and deleting it from your test domain. It might not get indexed right away, but over the course of a few weeks, search engines should naturally pick up the fact that the article has been removed from your test domain and now lives on your main domain.

I was testing WordPress on my test domain and forgot to check that Google doesn’t crawl my website. I posted one long blogpost and accidentally found out that it’s snowing on page 1 for one long tail keyword…I want to move that blogpost to my ‘real’ domain, but don’t want to be punished for duplicate content. How can I redirect just this one post?

Thanks!
Karo

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Thanks Ryan, will try that out.