Most of people are for successful deployment of website to another domain! Let's us know how it is work? If you're planning on moving your site to a new domain, here are some tips that will help you retain your site's ranking in Google's search results. Your aim is to avoid 404 (File Not Found) errors when users click on links to your site. - If you're changing your domain because of a rebrand or redesign of your site, you might want to think about doing this in two phases: first, move your site; and secondly, launch your redesign. This manages the amount of change your users see at any stage in the process, and can make the process seem smoother. Limiting the number of changes at any one time can also make it easier to troubleshoot unexpected behavior. -Use a 301 Redirect to permanently redirect all pages on your old site to your new site. This tells search engines and users that your site has permanently moved. It is recommend that you move and redirect a section or directory first, and then test to make sure that your redirects are working correctly before moving all your content. - Don't do a single redirect directing all traffic from your old site to your new home page. This will avoid 404 errors, but it's not a good user experience. It's more work, but a page-to-page redirect will help preserve your site's ranking in Google while providing a consistent and transparent experience for your users. If there won't be a 1:1 match between pages on your old site and your new site (recommended), try to make sure that every page on your old site is at least redirected to a new page with similar content. -Check both external and internal links to pages on your site. each site that links to yours and ask them to update the links to point to the page on your new domain. -However, if this isn't practical, make sure that all pages with incoming links are redirected to your new site. You should also check internal links within your old site, and update them to point to your new domain. Once your content is in place on your new server, use a link checker like Xenu to make sure you don't have broken legacy links on your site. This is especially important if your original content included absolute links (like www.example.(com/cooking/recipes/chocolatecake.html) instead of relative links (like ../recipes/chocolatecake.html). -To prevent confusion, it's best to retain control of your old site domain for at least 180 days. -# Add your new site to your Webmaster Tools account, and verify your ownership of it. # We recommend that you create and submit a Sitemap listing the URLs on your new site. Submitting a Sitemap is a way to tell Google about pages on your new site that google might not otherwise discover. * Check the web crawl errors for both your old and new sites, to make sure that the 301 redirects from the old site are working properly, and that the new site isn't showing unwanted 404 errors. * If you've submitted a Sitemap for your new site, the Sitemap Details page lets you see how many URLs in your Sitemap we've crawled and indexed. Happy Successful changing! Hope it will retain your website ranking! Regards Suhaana Khan.
Very nice information.. But if you have thousands of backlinks pointing to your domain and you redirect it to another domain and let's say its not easy to update all of those backlinks (Suppose only 40% can be updated) then how will it effect our rankings, as SERP rankings depends on backlinks heavily.
stephen: Don't worry about that. It is a waste of time to go back and try to update all of your links. A 301 redirect takes care of that for you. It transfers those links to your new domain. If you leave too many links unchanged, keep control over the old domain for longer...basically as long as you want those old links to help you. Just worry about changing your most important links. suhaana: You can stop putting your name in every thread you make. We can all see who made the thread. You don't need to spam your name on every thread. This is a forum all about seo/websites, not all about Suhaana Khan.
I've read on some other forums that Google will not follow 301 (Moved Permanently) redirects. Can anyone confirm if this is true or not? I've also read that the new site will not get any PR from the 301's either... However, the thread I read is a few years old so have things changed? Will Google transfer PR, etc to new domain? I'm in need of changing our domain but we just spent 2 months of countless hours and money to get the domain some traffic and PR. I was planning on re-creating the entire site on the new domain exactly as it currently exists. The only change is the domain name. This tutorial is pretty much what I had in mind and confirms my thinking, but I'm still concerned about losing all the work we just did.
Can anyone verify that a 301 redirect will transfer a domain PR From: www.old.com (pr3) To: www.new.com (pr0) So that www.new.com will have a PR of 3 now? BTW: I know it works within a domain, it just from domain to domain, im unsure about. Thanks!
The original post was a copy and paste from Google Webmasters Help http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105 So any more info about this subject is best found there http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=93633 (she just signs the posts, she doesn't do any writing, or even reading, of them)