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(Entry was posted by Maria Haase on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 09/10/2014).

Imminent trainwreck.

Hey everybody, I need your help! I am working on a new site for my client. Unfortunately, my client wants to do everything at once, so we are looking at the following steps:
1. new webdesign
2. Completely re-organizing content structure of pages
3. new url-structure (from www.domain.com/2010/12/31/blog-post-title to www.domain.com/blog-post-title)
4. adding content from a third domain to the new domain which has several languages, so the urls are language specific eg. www.domain.com/en/2010/12/09/blog-post-title

I am trying to figure out how to set up a 301 redirect for all of that. I think because of the complexity, I will have to do it in .htaccess file, but can I do that many changes all at once? I`ve seen code to redirect from www.olddomain.com to www.newdomain.com or from www.olddomain.com/2012/10/20/blog-post-title to www.olddomain.com/blog-post-title, and so on, but not for all of these cases. Can I just add all those 301 redirect rules in the same .htaccess file? Do I have to do it manually (there are about 60 pages + 400 blog posts on one domain and another 100 pages +50 blog posts on the multi-language domain). I`m looking forward to your input and help with this one!!! Thanks so much in advance!?
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  • Maria Haase: Hey everybody, I need your help! I am working on a new site for my client. Unfortunately, my client wants to do everything at once, so we are looking at the following steps:
    1. new webdesign
    2. Completely re-organizing content structure of pages
    3. new url-structure (from www.domain.com/2010/12/31/blog-post-title to www.domain.com/blog-post-title)
    4. adding content from a third domain to the new domain which has several languages, so the urls are language specific eg. www.domain.com/en/2010/12/09/blog-post-title

    I am trying to figure out how to set up a 301 redirect for all of that. I think because of the complexity, I will have to do it in .htaccess file, but can I do that many changes all at once? I've seen code to redirect from www.olddomain.com to www.newdomain.com or from www.olddomain.com/2012/10/20/blog-post-title to www.olddomain.com/blog-post-title, and so on, but not for all of these cases. Can I just add all those 301 redirect rules in the same .htaccess file? Do I have to do it manually (there are about 60 pages + 400 blog posts on one domain and another 100 pages +50 blog posts on the multi-language domain). I'm looking forward to your input and help with this one!!! Thanks so much in advance!
  • SEMXE: hi +Maria Haase, you can put all redirect instructions in one file only.. you have to do it manually going url by url.. we are not aware of any such tool that can perform this task with accuracy... wrong 301s can hurt your website.. so better to go for manual way.
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