Moving blog to new directory..

Discussion in 'Content Management' started by mylifejr, Aug 16, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi all..

    I have to question. Here I not to ask how to move the blog (wordpress) to another directory in sames server, but:

    1) Before this my blod URL is http://blog.mydomain.com, but now I remove it to server root (directory) http://www.mydomain.com. So, what is the effect to my Search Engine Ranking? Before this, my blog is top ten in google and yahoo. ;)
    * My blog is not English language

    2) Before I move my blog, there are some backlinks to my blog using that subdomain, but, how to make sure, if someone refer to the some topic like http://[B]blog.[/B]mydomain.com/category/title and it will move to http://[B][B]www.[/B][/B]mydomain.com/category/title ?

    Anyone know or have experiences in this case?

    Thanks a lot.
     
    mylifejr, Aug 16, 2006 IP
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    supriyadisw Peon

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    Hi mylifejr,

    You should really make sure that you'll do this. Perhaps I have a same experience when I updated my blog permalink. Just sharing mine...

    http://www.supriyadisw.net/2006/07/search-engine-optimization-for-wordpress

    All back link that refers to my old permalink structure got broken (404 page not found) :(

    You should check all of your backlink and tell the webmaster to update their link to your new domain. Perhaps you need to build your pagerank again.

    Correct me if I wrong ;)

    :D Gud lak
     
    supriyadisw, Aug 16, 2006 IP
  3. mylifejr

    mylifejr Peon

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    Thanks supriyadisw..

    Actually, there are one solution:

    http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

    Now, i make decision not to move all the core wordpress files to rthe oot directory, but just change the address URI only..

    Just a simple task, put index.php & .htaccess into root directory and let all the core wordpress files in the it's own directory/subdomain. Then change the blog address to your main domain & dont change the wordpress URI. Just follow the steps that explained clearly at the link i give above.

    In index.php file, change the part of code like this:

    require('./subdomain/wp-blog-header.php');

    So, when visitors want to enter your blog, they just type http://www.mydomain.com & if you want to login, must using http://subdomain.mydomain.com/wp-login.php/ or just simply click the menu login at sidebar.

    So, there are no more worries to 404 or lost your backlinks. ;)

    Thanks and sorry about my question before, but we can discuss my first question about the SE ranking if we totally change / move our wordpress files to another directory or server.
     
    mylifejr, Aug 16, 2006 IP
  4. supriyadisw

    supriyadisw Peon

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    Thank's mylifejr,

    I learned a new thing here. Glad you share it. May I see your blog? Thx

    :D Gud lak
     
    supriyadisw, Aug 17, 2006 IP