hello there, Well i have a blog located at www.mydomain.com/blog and its got good search engine ranking and stuff... but now i want to change it to my root, that is, www.mydomain.com .... how can i do it in WordPress... also will it affect the ranking and my traffic from the search engines... ??
I'm not sure of the direct implications of the ranking, but you shouldn't lose any search hits. All you really need to do is change the info in wordpress so that it directs your index to the right place and you'll also want to redirect any wordpress.com/blog traffic to wordpress.com You can do it fairly easily through a 301 redirect in you .htaccess If you do a quick search here on dp, you should find several ways to accomplish it. All depends on how much you know about .htaccess and how much you want to do.
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I explained to "them" the OP and his friend, the one that's actually needing the help on Yahoo Messenger about it. spencerpassmore (5/18/2007 3:01:47 AM): 1) Login to the blog admin spencerpassmore (5/18/2007 3:01:56 AM): 2) Go to options general spencerpassmore (5/18/2007 3:02:08 AM): 3) Change the blog urls from domain.com/blog to just domain.com and hit update button spencerpassmore (5/18/2007 3:02:20 AM): 4) you'll get a 404 spencerpassmore (5/18/2007 3:02:28 AM): 5) don't worry about that spencerpassmore (5/18/2007 3:02:38 AM): 6) Go into the FTP directory and move files up from blog/ folder to domain root