title: Managing 301 redirects in a wordpress migration
body: <p>My understanding of 301:</p>
  
  <p>URL forwarding provided by most hosting companies is often 302 directing and does not inform the search engine that the site has actually moved.</p>
  
  <p>The 301 redirects need to occur in the htaccess file located on the old domain hosting account.</p>
  
  <p>My client believes the following will work but the logic does not make sense to me. Please let me know if it is correct.</p>
  
  <p>Point the old domain name to the new domain name dropping the old hosting. Then use a 301 redirect wordpress plugin to handle the redirects. 
  So essentially trying to visit old-site.com/blog would send you to new-site.com and the 301 redirect module would send you to /blog if that's what you had tried to visit on the old site.</p>
  
  <p>Is this possible? To me I would think you would need to make a redirect of /blog -> new-site.com/blog and the redirect would need to be in the htaccess file of the old site. </p>
  
  <p>Please tell me if I'm wrong. I very rarely handle any migrations but I thought I understood redirects.</p>