We run a very large site that was originally a .net and now we have the .com. Challenge is that we have well over 100K+ indexed pages in Google, etc. in the .net variety and was wondering what the best way is to make that transition to .com. I'm sure many of you have handled this before, moving a great site to an even better domain name. All comments appreciated.
yes i m agree with richie just propagate it to new domain so pr will also pass in next pr. check this video videos.webpronews.com/2007/04/12/ses-vanessa-and-rand/# here in last topic given abt it.i cant post live links right now so add http:// to this link.
And as richie said, it's very important to use 301 (permanent) redirect, not other 3XX's http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
I think the following htaccess should do the work for you. Correct me if I'm wrong. Put it in the document root of your old domain. Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,NC,L] Code (markup): or Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule (.*) http://www.newdomain.com\1 [R=301,NC,L] Code (markup):
MANY thanks guys - this is all great advice and I appreciate it. We have been very fortunate and yours truly has won his case with WIPO. Anyone needing advice with domain name dispute resolution, please feel free to reach out to me. I'm wondering what kind of drops in traffic we might expect since i'm guessing that we'll see something occurring with the reindexing. It's a scary experience... BTW, I'm actually also looking for an SEO expert, someone who has experience in handling a large site (over 5M page views daily, etc.) and wants a good steady gig. We'll consider all suitable candidates and especially good if you are in Scandanavia or US.
why you want to redirect all the pages back to .com domain since noone compete with you because of the TLD. Just simply redirect .com domain to .net
We're currently doing that right now but it's an issue of image and the cache that the .com brings. When you've got a pretty large site and an organization that is supposed to do business with large companies, having a .net for no obvious purpose (e.g. an Internet Service Provider) it can raise eyebrows and put questions in the minds of your potential partners. Yeah, it shouldn't but not everyone we deal with are substance over form. So yes, migrating our site to the .com is a big deal and something we don't want to mess up. We're willing to hire an expert to make sure that this gets done properly and probably need assistance in continuing to manage our SEO. Right now it's amazing what our guys have done, generating a ton of page views on good content and pure SEO alone. But still, we live in a world where running a .com can enhance your image and especially your valuation... All help with this is greatly appreciated as well as great comments like yours.
Here is an mod rewrite line that I actually use for one of my forums (that switched domain): RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^/(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] Code (markup):