Permanently moving a domain to subdirectory without affecting the SEO, Google Analytics

Question

I have a wordpress website footballfriendsonline.com and it has almost 22,000 blog posts running with SEO google analytics for the past 6 years, all the contents are scattered in almost all social media and backlinked in a lot of websites. The issue is I'm planning to start afresh news aggregator site with the same old web address 1 I want to move the old blog contents to the subdirectory ie footballfriendsonline.com/blog and I want to run the same old blogging in 2 without affecting the SEO and also want to run the fresh startup aggregator site in 1 .

I tried with 301 redirections by updating .htaccess file and I failed in getting desired output.

Anyone, please help me with this...

Answer 1

You can do that.. Transparently redirect your root directory to a subdirectory...

1. Log into cPanel
2. File Manager
3. Edit the .htaccess file

4. Add the following code to the .htaccess file:

    RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?footballfriendsonline.com$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI}.^/blog/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}?-d RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /subdirectory/$1 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www?).footballfriendsonline.com$ RewriteRule ^(/)?$ blog/index.php [L]

this will work for you. please check...