301 Redirects on Windows

[TheSeoGuy]

I have a question about redirecting to another domain, but keeping page rank. I am learning about 301 redirects with asp code, but can I use that for every file in a site? Also, I’m not exactly sure how redirects work. If our current domain name is www.xyz.com and our new domain name we want to redirect to is www.abc.com, but our files are still hosted at the same place, do we just need to add the asp code to the top of each page or do we need to do anything at all?

We would like our home page to redirect as well as interior pages that are ranking well. We do not want to loose any ranking on any pages.

I’m sure, this has been talked about thoroughly, but the post I found were old and would not let me reply.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

[Xoc]

You can actually do the redirect in the IIS manager dialogs. On the "Home Directory" tab of the properties, you can set the site to be a "Redirection to URL". Then check the checkbox for "A permanent redirection for this resource" to get a 301 error rather than a 302 error.

You may still lose PageRank unless you keep this redirection going forever. The reason is that some sites will have links to the old URL, which may not pass the PageRank on to the new URL. You should check your server logs for all sites that have links to yours and ask them to update those links.