Changed my Domain name....... Need help!

Here is my story....

I recently started a website with domain name "A". After I had published some articles and reviews I decided to use a different domain. (One that was over 4 years old). The domain I bought was already indexed in Google.

Now here is my problem.... Google isn't indexing the pages from the newer website. It is still indexing the pages from the older website. Let me note that the old domain points to a parked webpage.

It has only been a week or so since I have been working under the new domain...

Do I need to give it more time.. Or is there a problem?

 

i think give more time ..

 

thanks for usefull info

 

Just wait for some time and also u can submit your site in Google

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

 

Green Dog -

Why don't you just do a 301 redirect to the domain you want indexed? When Google visits the domain you don't want indexed it is forwarded to the new domain and all PR juice is passed. I'd go into more detail but not sure if any is needed.

Good luck

 

If you want Google to NOT index the old site then you must tell Google that. ie: use a 301 redirect (moved permanently) on the old domain and send ALL requests to the new domain.

I just went through this (moving to a new domain) on a site that was heavily indexed by Google. The best thing is to make sure that the only thing that changes on the new domain is the domain itself... keep the entire directory structure and content the same:

http://www.A.com/link/to/some/page.html
exists also on:
http://www.B.com/link/to/some/page.html

and use a .htaccess rule to redirect all traffic to the new domain/same doc.

Google will still serve your old domain in the search results but will start indexing the new domain. This process takes about 3 weeks to complete with Google (that's what it took me). But now my old domain is nowhere in the google index and all pages on the new domain are indexed just as well as before.

Also do the usual stuff like authenticate the new domain w/ google and submit a sitemap. Check google webmasters often for errors, some errors take time to resolve as google doesn't crawl them every day.

 

add a 301 redirect as @rbucich said..
Regards

 

i think you need give more time. wait ang patien.
good luck!

 

I made a mistake... When I got the new domain I copied the files and database and then uploaded them to the new domain a totally took the other website offline...

 

Google is starting to index them slowly ... I am still not ranking where I was though.

 

And you won't. It's a new domain (IP) in Google's eyes.

 

Give it some time, I think its too early to tell at the moment.

 

yeah give it more time, google needs time to index things, some sites longer than others (dont know why that is)