My question is a follow up of Redirecting URLs temporary with htaccess which was solved thanks to the SO community. I realized that I have a 2010 version of my site and a 2011 version which is about to launch. Both share a same structure but content is different and will be archived as such (not a archived category) because it is a fashion catalog.
The main site has been ranked at google an has the sitelinks at the bottom of the search result, which is nice. Right now I have redirected traffic to the archived 2010 site (which is now inside a subfolder)
Question: When the 2011 site is up, how do I redirect Google (and not traffic, since people can now enter to two different sites), but only re-establishing the cannonical status to the (new main) 2011 site, so that the sitelinks and PageRank belong to the main site and not to the archived site.
Do I just delete the 302 redirects? and everything goes back to normal? These are the rules to redirect traffic to the archived site while the new main site is under construction.
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !=""
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !page=home
RewriteRule ^index.php /newfolder/index.php [R,L]