Proper 301 redirect after changing domain (Webmaster tools)

  • Hello, I changed the domain for my WordPress-based news website about a month ago, and I have a little bit of confussion regarding if I did the 301 redirect the right way, since it works fine BUT Google Webmaster Tools does not recognize the redirection, and our organic visits have dropped significantly.

    Our old site: https://www.somosnba.com
    Our new site: https://www.somosbasket.com

    We have not changed database or hosting, just the domain. In our /www/ folder I have a .htaccess file with the following lines (including the first line in blank):

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

    I have read tutorials on different types of 301 redirects, some of which aren’t compatible and so on, and I am not sure whether I have done something wrong, since the redirect does work (if you go to any page of the site that starts by somosnba.com/***, it does redirect you to somosbasket.com/***), however, when I try to change the domain in Google Webmaster Tools and I reach the 301 Redirection testing, it tells me Google has not found a 301 Redirection on my site, which gets me confused.

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  • Hi :),

    Have you duplicated the website from https://www.somosnba.com to https://www.somosbasket.com ? And now wish to set Redirections for each link. If so, then you can use Redirection Plugin and set each page from https://www.somosnba.com/*** to https://www.somosbasket.com/*** . And then check in the Google Webmaster.

    Thread Starter rubjm9

    (@rubjm9)

    I just installed a plugin called Redirection and set that redirection, but Google Webmaster Tools still does not recognize it giving me the following message:

    “We have not found any guideline 301 redirect for your site. For more details, see the Scan tool like Google.”

    If it is possible I’d like to avoid using plugins, as I try keeping a low number of plugins. Isn’t just a code in .htaccess what I need to add? Why does the site redirect but it’s not recognized by Google WMT?

    [ No bumping please. ]

    @rubjm9 – Google Webmaster / search console also does not recognize the 301 redirect that I had my webmaster set up with the Blogger/Wordpress Redirect plugin! I am curious for an answer as well.

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