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Joomla 301 redirect domain.com to domain.com.au

I've purchased a new domain and want to redirect people visiting my old domain.com to my new domain.com.au. The end game is to retire domain.com.

I did some research on SEO and I'm led to believe I need a 301 redirect.

I tried using the core redirect function of Joomla but it didn't work. The web host is Plesk, and I've located the .htaccess file. Looking around the internet, there seems to be alot of different ways to achieve this redirect. I've had some help from my web host provider, and it looks like domain.com.au has been added as an alias in Plesk. It doesn't look like I have full access to Plesk, so I might need to pay my web host provider to do these things for me.... which is what I am trying to avoid, as they have quoted me a massive amount.

What is the best way for me to move all traffic away from domain.com to domain.com.au, while keeping the SEO bots happy.

Joomla version 3.9.5
Plesk version ??? (the user account I have doesn't seem to allow me to see that info....)

Thanks!
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1) Use a 302.

With a 301, if anything is slightly incorrect, you'll browser cache the problem, with no way to recover.

With a 302, you can correct any problems.

2) What is the best way for me to move all traffic away from domain.com to domain.com.au, while keeping the SEO bots happy.

Use a 302. Stop using domain.com + start using domain.com.au + eventually crawlers will respond.

3) How exactly this will effect SEO depends on many factors... Also much conjecture, as every SEO case tends to be slightly different.

For SEO considerations, really best to open a new question about this + list your actual domain name.

People can only guess at the effect from personal experience + testing an actual domain name.

4) You can just add the 302 redirect to a .htaccess file in your domain.com DocumentRoot directory.
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Hi David,

Thanks for your response. Ok, so a 302 redirect - I'll give it a go.

Unfortunately the bulk of my question was how do I implement such a redirect. As mentioned above, the core redirect function of Joomla didn't work for me for some reason. I tried modifying the .htaccess file for a 301, and got a "too many redirects" error.
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