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I want to migrate one of my client's website from a free host to paid host. Currently, the site/domain is being hosted inside a sub-folder (used this tut: https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/347) at the free host. I would like to move the site to the paid host, though at the new host the site WILL NOT be inside sub-folder.

From an SEO perspective, Do I need to tell google (using .htaccess) that the site has been migrated to paid host and no longer hosted inside a sub-folder.

thanks dkj

dkjain
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You have two "best" options here:

  1. Use a 301 "Moved Permanently" Redirect on the existing pages. If you can create .htaccess files with Mod_Rewrite or Mod_Redirect directives this should be pretty easy.

  2. Add a "Canonical" meta-tag header to the old site (or both sites) specifying the new page locations. Google directions

The first is almost certainly less work, if either of those options are available. The latter always works, even on servers where you have no control, no .htaccess files, no nothing.

Chris S
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