How to redirect a international domain to a subfolder on the English site without hurting Google rankings?
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I have two sites:
www.example.de
www.main.com
www.main.com
is English version of www.example.de
which is in German. I want to keep only www.main.com
. For the English version I will keep www.main.com
, but for German I want to move it to www.main.com/de
.
I am wondering what would be best solution for old www.example.de:
- Redirect everything from
www.example.de
towww.main.com/de
using 301 redirect? - Redirect everything from
www.example.de
towww.main.com/de/page-url-of-old-size.html
? So each link actually get own address. Is that necessary or will Google realize where the page belongs on new site even if I redirect everything to home page? - Any other solution, maybe just set in Google webmaster tools the new domain or anything like that?
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