Comments on: How to Change Your Domain While Keeping Your Search Engine Ranking

By: Red Pepper

Red Pepper — Tue, 04 May 2010 03:47:06 +0000

Thank you Sherice Jacob.

By: Red Pepper

Red Pepper — Mon, 03 May 2010 22:47:06 +0000

Thank you Sherice Jacob.

By: Okey

Okey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:06:27 +0000

Upps i forgat to mention that .htaccess gives 500 error code what can i do help pls

By: Richard Linington

Richard Linington — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:56:40 +0000

Many thanks for the advice. Very useful and understandable for someone like me without much ‘technical knowledge’!

By: Car id

Car id — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:46:13 +0000

Also when you did 301 redirect to new site – dont forget to use “Change of address” tool in “Site configuration” section of google webmaster tools. Mat said that it will help Google to redirect rankings faster. As for me it depends of site structure and quantity of indexed pages.

By: medyum

medyum — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:16:55 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. In our company we once had problems with “lighttpd-server”. The mod_rewrite config was quite bad on that one. Would not recomment it for mod_rewriting…

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 21:16:48 +0000

It would be an entire new domain. I think I understand now, thanks for the info!

By: Sherice Jacob

Sherice Jacob — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:13:49 +0000

Hi Kimberley,

You don’t “have” to contact all of the site owners if you’re switching something like a subdirectory within your own domain – such as http://www.example.com/blah being changed to http://www.example.com/foo , since the redirect will take people who click to the new page.

If you’re switching to an entirely new domain though, and you don’t plan on keeping the old one indefinitely to redirect it, then you’d want to let them know – but I’d only worry about the article directories or blogs that actually send you traffic.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:09:58 +0000

I’m about to do this. One question though…
You see, the biggest way I built up my page rank (PR2) was through paying for link submissions to hundreds of directories, and article submission to many blogs. I am a little confused with the part about contacting sites that have links pointing to your old site.

Wouldn’t any link using the old domain name be redirected to the new domain? If not, I’m afraid that my pagerank will be lost because it’s difficult to contact hundreds of directories with a domain change. – This would make me want to stay with the old domain, which I’m hoping I don’t have to…

Very easy to follow instructions though, thank you.

By: hakan

hakan — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:03:42 +0000

nice work and comments