website redirection?pls help

We worked closely on our SEO efforts for a website. We have decided to purchase another URL that fits better with our new logo. This website URL will be different than the earlier one. What would be the hindrance in terms of SEO if we made the new URL as the main site and redirected the old one to it? Would we “wash out” all of our previous efforts on the old website?

Just looking for some advice as to should i do the seo again on after i redirect the old site to the new one? Pls help

 

If redirection is done in proper way then none of your efforts done on old site would be wasted. You will get benefit of all backlinks you have generated to your Old URL.

 

you can redirect your website to new url using 301 redirect and set this in your google webmaster account also
I did this successfully for my website 1 month ago.

 

If i set a 301 redirect, is that sufficient? I mean, will it affect the SEO onpage work done on the website?Will the meta tags and everything be carried forward, or will i have to do the onpage work again?

 

it is sufficient but take care to redirect all your pages to the new url
oldwebsite.com/page1.html > newwebsite.com/page1.html

 

you will be required to do onpage works again.

 

oh oh!so wat can be the other alternative. Cos i think writing the meta tags again is gonna take some time! www.smileprotx.com is the old website i am talking about. www.garlandorthodontics.com is the new proposed URL. Should i drop the idea of the new URL and continue with the old one?Pls help.

 

If all you are doing is changing domain names then ALL you have to do is 301 redirect every page at the old domain to the same page at the new domain... If you're running on Apache you can do this in Mod_Rewrite with something like the following in the .htaccess in your webs root folder:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} olddomain.tld$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.tld/$1 [R=301,L]

You can expect to take a temporary hit in rankings and therefore traffic while all of your old domain's inbound links are recrawled. I recently wrote a post on redirecting web pages which will explain how 301s work and "why" you can expect a temporary hit in rankings and traffic. I'm working on a tutorial on Mod_Rewrite but it will be a while for it's ready for prime time.

 

I started a thread regarding redirect a url to new url and found a best answer. DP is best place to get answers regarding SEO

 

If you didnt change the url structure, then there is no need to do onpage works. Simply make sure if you change any urls in the new site you are putting proper 301 redirect in the new site itself using appropriate RewriteRule .

 

Yeah definitely,redirection is better to gain all the backlinks.

 

Ok fine...but i have done a few link building activities like submitting the old url to a few important medical directories(my client is an orthodontist) and stuff like that.When i redirect my old URL to the new one, what happens to my submitted directory links?how do i change them?

 

If you have access to google webmaster tools for the site you can fill out the new location in there that should help avoid too much of a temp serps drop.

 

If you 301 redirect your old URL to a new URL and the old URL is listed in directories, when a user clicks on the old link in the directory their browser will automatically be redirect to the new URL. The users won't even notice other than the URL in their browser will change. That is "why" you need to 301 redirect each old URL to its new equivalent.