New URL Redirect from old - SEO Headache????

Hi Guys,

I am working for a client who wants to change his company name. This means changing the domain name to a new one, however he has 105 links pointing to the existing domain. He also wants me to impliment the SEO on the existing site.

Not much will be changed, just the URL's and name, the content will remain the same, would this have a Detrimental effect on SEO of the site???

Would this just require a global 301 redirect or something much more precise?

Many thanks in advance....

T

 

Ive found that every time ive done a php header 301 redirect it has dropped all my pages from googles search engine.. so if i was you, I would just put a meta tag redirect to the correct url, or use some kind of mod rewrite for it.. and say, leave the old domain their for about 4/6 months?

 

301 works for me.

 

I would put a back link on the old site...so that it points towards your new site. This will help the new site gain 1 more backlink that is relevant.

Once the new site is up/running then I would do 301.

I wouldn't risk the chance of losing the PR ranking, and SERP rankings of the old site.

 

Its easy using SEO Redirect all juice of old domain will be shifted to new domain !

 

An SEO consultant complaining about making 301 redirects?

If you want to honor your clients request you can't do this the easy way; you do it the right way. If they are just changing the domain name and URLs you need to 301 redirect each web page to it's new URL to pass over all SEO weight and Pagerank. 301 redirects in the .htaccess are really not that hard. Below is an example how to 301 redirect a web page.

Redirect 301 /oldwebpage.html http://www.newsite.com/newpage.html

Don't forget the index files in each directory as well.

 

Redirecting a site with the while data base to another url is all very risky from my point of view. But as it is stated in the above post to redirect a website including every directory pages, can definitely help transfering the data base but side by side you need to replace all the links used for backlinks on various web pages to this new url to regain all the strength of the website.

 

I just switched over a website myself. From one domain name to another. If I do a 301 permenant forwarding from my GoDaddy control panel, is that enough?

 

Well, are you really an SEO expert?

 

No, I don't think an expert would be asking.

 

personally i use meta tag to redirect.

 

Is there somewhere I can just report it to Google and done! I do use there webmaster tools but I didn't see anything.

I'm not sure how to do any of the other methods to be honest. Like, where do I insert the Meta tags? On my new domain name home page file, and have the old name forward to the new one or what? And samethign with the .htacess file, do I make the changes in the new domain name file? Because the old one is not being hosted anymore, just re-directed. I think I need some consulting..lol

 

All you need is do 301 all old pages to new ones.

 

yes you need to redirect all existing pages from old to new site permanently.

 

301 is the direct command and friendly for search engine robot.

 

It's not a headache buddy, it's easy, you just need to move find proper medium to get understood well:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

I hope it can help.

See it's just a 1 line code to change