I have been running a website under the domain extension .net for a while. I've just switched to.com, but how do I do it? 301 redirect keeps being brought up, do I need to do this even though both domains point to the same absolute paths? Help - thanks!
You have to have the files hosted on the domain you want, if you want them all pages at yoursite.com to forward to yoursite.net, you put the 301 htaccess in the .com directory, that requires hosting for both, or you could simply use a domain name forwarder.
i dont know if jream answered your question but yes you should have a redirect because it will help you in the serps and it will also help when google crawls ur website.
Thanks - I think this answers my question! If anyone has anything else to add to this, that would be great.