Moving Site To New URL - Redirect 301???

Hi

I have a site (www.site1.com) and I want to change the url to (www.site2.com) I am a bit worried changing urls as site1 gets **,*** visits a day. Can I simply do a 301 redirect to www.site2.com?? has anyone done this before?? I am a bit worried as I dont want to loose my **,*** visitors a day

Thaanks

 

Download your .htaccess file using your ftp cpanel.

.htaccess file: Change as given below.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.site2.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Then upload it. It's done buddy. Verysimple.

 

Yup exactly what prclicks says although if your website is on an IIS server I think it is a bit more complicated to get a 301 redirect in place. You may see a dip in visits while the 301 is registered by the search engines but apart from that the method above will work 100%.

 

I think it is not safe for your website.

 

The code "301" is interpreted as "moved permanently". .htaccess file is used to create 301 redirect.

 

Doesn't he also need to do some sort of redirect for all the links that are pointing there?

 

dont use 301 redirects. I used about 1 month ago and within few days google thought i used some black hat techniques and they delete all my pages