I've been running a personal blog of my own (in a style of firstnamelastname.com) concentrating on my music hobby and for a year and a half now I've been publishing some tutorial articles there as well alongside my song demos. I'm getting ok traffic every day via Google for those tutorial articles and I've been ranking high for one specific search term for a several months now. However, I'm going to make my blog a bit more tutorial/music tech news oriented and I was planning to move it on a new domain name. What happens to my rankings if I change my domain name? What happens to the juice of various backlinks that are pointing to my blog?
In addition to letting Google know via your Google webmaster account, you must 301 redirect from your old domain to your new domain to maintain your link juice, otherwise, you loose the link juice. You can either Google search on how to 301 redirect or get someone to do it for you.
Firstly you should redirect your domain using 301 redirect. Then you should define this change in Google webmaster tools. You can follow these steps to define it for Google: 1) Go to Google webmaster tools. 2) Go to 'Site configuration' panel. 3) Select 'Change of address' . 4) You can see 'Tell us the URL of your new domain' . Below it you can write the new address of your website. 5) Verify the new domain. Then your ranking will not be changed.
all your dreams will come true with a 301 Redirect! Look into it....this sort of thing happens a million times a day!
I know that using redirect works but I would like to asked if we changed our old domain to a new domain will the pagerank changed as well?
Very well described. I think if you follow all the steps properly, then you won't lose your rankings. All the best.
I think the best thing you do for that is to redirect your old site to your new domain name using the 301 redirection.