Turns out my highest PR for me, according to Google's Crawl stats page, comes from an old subdomain.

I was doing some searching on this and found a solution that works.

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} oldsubdomain.x.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.xcom/ [R=301,L]

Anyway, I was wondering if you see any conflicts/concerns with your SEO / rewrite work?

All seems to be working normally.


Thanks!

Well, what you did is almost ok if you put these rewriterules in the oldsubdomain.mysite.com's .htaccess.
A more correct way would be :

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^oldsubdomain\.mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/ [R=301,L]

You can as well, if possible, just make the oldsubdomain.juarol.com to be linked to the same folder as you main domain (in the root folder) so that the www prefix redirection you already have there will take care of this one as well As long as you are using the negative case :

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RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

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Great... it works well. So then if I have the old subdomains .htaccess link back to my main, it then wont be necessary to add it to my main .htaccess, right? And Oops, I tottaly missed the backward slash.

Thank you for taking the time to explain to me the correct way.

The one in your main domain will take care of all cases.
If set like I posted, any domain or sub-domain linked to this main domain will be http 301 redirected

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dcz wrote:The one in your main domain will take care of all cases.
If set like I posted, any domain or sub-domain linked to this main domain will be http 301 redirected

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That's what I wanted to achieve. Thank you very much.