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Best Practices For Keeping Backlinks When Moving Domains?

Preface: There's content available via Google on the topic which I can't link to in this blog post as the post will be flagged.

But that leads me to my main question, there seem to be two workflows on the topic:

1) If there is not a new URL on the domain to link to, redirect it to the homepage of the new site via a 301

2) Redirect all traffic to the homepage/landing page of the old domain, and redirect traffic from the homepage of the old domain to the correct URLs of the new site

Does anyone have any experience they care to share on this topic?

Thank you in advance.

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