Redirect netlify site to main domain

[jen]

Hey @adityarao310!
You can set up that 301 redirect from your Netlify subdomain to your primary custom domain in a _redirects or netlify.toml file. Here’s a post about it:

Recommended status code for redirecting netlify subdomain to primary domain

Hi there, A 200 is a rewrite or a proxy rule (cf Redirects and rewrites | Netlify Docs), which if used in that context does the opposite of what you want - it shows your site (mydomain.com) content at the netlify hostname (https://yoursite.netlify.com), instead of telling the browser “no, this is not the canonical URL, instead go over to https://mydomain.com” which is what a 301 redirect would do. Those docs with the 200 example are buggy and have been live for a year and a half and you’re the…

As for SEO, we recently rolled out an enhancement that should help with two sites that have the same content:

Improved SEO with canonical link headers

Hi all, Next Monday, March 30th, we’re going to make a change to improve SEO in sites that have configured a custom domain. I want to tell you a little bit more about it before we roll it out. Every time you create a new Netlify site, we assign a subdomain for it in our primary domain, netlify.com , for example happy-wozniak-23hdl3.netlify.com . As you might already be aware, on April 14 2020, we’re changing that domain to netlify.app , so that previous example will become happy-wozniak-23hdl3…

This Link header is visible in the response headers when you navigate directly to your Netlify subdomain- not when you go straight to your custom domain:

Hope this helps! Let us know if we can answer any other questions on this