Hey everyone, I was wondering whats the best way for me to change my domain. I wanted to change my domain, and redirect my old domain to the new one, so I get all the traffic and alexa ranking and stuff. Do you think this would hurt me? In terms of SEO, and that kind of nature.
Well, domain redirects to another page will affect you in terms of traffic and rankings. They will stabilize in a while though.
Thanks for the quick reply. Do you think it's better to do a redirect or put a link on the old domain linking to my new domain? What is the ideal method?
Wow, that would be a lot... How would I do it in a mass quantity? Especially when there are so much variables to consider when redirecting, but what do I know, since I have never done 301 redirects.
Look into using mod rewrite in your .htaccess file. You can take your old file directories and use a wildcard to point all of the pages in that directory to the new one. Same can be done for your pages, just a lot easier then creating a 301 on every page of the site.
Redirect the old url's to the new domain using L302 redirections in your .htaccess file.. Wait till the new site gets indexed and then switch to L301 redirection instead. Ask all the linking website to change their links to the new domain