Setting Up Domain Forwarding to Your New Wix Site
In this article
- Step 1 | Set up 301 redirects for pages on your new site
- Step 2 | Connect your old domain to Wix
- Step 3 | Connect the secondary domain to the primary domain
Use URL redirects to forward your domain to your new Wix site. 301 redirects can guide people from your old site to your new site, allowing you to keep traffic and SEO intact and avoid losing visitors while migrating your site over to Wix.
For example, if your site previously used the domain "old-domain.com", and your new Wix site uses the domain "mystunningwebsite.com", you can redirect visitors from the old domain to the new one.
Important:
- You must first upgrade your site and connect a domain to set up domain forwarding to your new site.
- It is not possible to redirect from a free Wix URL.
Step 1 | Set up 301 redirects for pages on your new site
Create redirects for any old pages which have a new URL. For example, URL forwarding allows you to redirect an old "/contact-us" page to your new "/contact" page.
You can manually create 301 redirects for your pages using the URL Redirect Manager in your site's SEO Dashboard.
To set up a 301 redirect:
- Go to your SEO Dashboard.
- Scroll down to Tools and settings.
- Click Go to URL Redirect Manager.
- Click + New Redirect.
- Select Single redirect.
- Enter the old URL path you want to redirect from (e.g. /about-us) under Old URL.
Tip: Only the path is needed here as you'll connect your old domain to Wix in the next step. - Enter the new URL that you want to redirect to:
- For pages on your site: Start typing the URL slug of your new page and select it from the drop-down.
- For external pages: Enter the entire URL that you want to redirect to.
- Click Save, or click Save & Add Another to add more.
Learn more about
setting up 301 redirects for your site.
Step 2 | Connect your old domain to Wix
Connect your old domain to your Wix account. This will be a secondary, external domain. Later on you can connect this domain to your primary Wix domain.
To connect your domain:
- Go to Domains in your Wix account.
- Click Add an Existing Domain.
- Click Connect a domain you already own.
- Select the site you want to connect your domain to and click Continue.
- Enter your domain in the search bar and click the arrow icon
. - Click connect it to your site in the sentence below the search field.
- Follow the on-screen prompts to connect your domain.
Note: From this point onwards, the steps that you see depend on your domain provider. Our domain connection assistant will guide you through the entire process. Learn more about connecting a domain to your Wix account.
Step 3 | Connect the secondary domain to the primary domain
Once you've connected your secondary domain, you can link it to your primary domain. If a visitor goes to your old (secondary) domain, they'll automatically be redirected to your primary domain.
To connect to your primary domain:
- Go to Domains in your Wix account.
- Scroll to the old domain and click the Assign button next to the text Not Assigned to a Site.
- Select a site and click Next.
- Choose Redirect it to the primary domain to redirect your old domain to your new domain.
- Click Assign.
