Hi!
I've been running a personal blog of my own (in a style of firstnamelastname.com) concentrating on my music hobby and for a year and a half now I've been publishing some tutorial articles there as well alongside my song demos.
I'm getting ok traffic every day via Google for those tutorial articles and I've been ranking high for one specific search term for a several months now.
However, I'm going to make my blog a bit more tutorial/music tech news oriented and I was planning to move it on a new domain name.
What happens to my rankings if I change my domain name? What happens to the juice of various backlinks that are pointing to my blog? as i think your ranking will vanish and you will start all you did again Quote: Originally Posted by mimo91 as i think your ranking will vanish and you will start all you did again Doesnt sound good.. gone.
consider user permanent redirect from old domain to new domain. this is to minimize the impact Quote: Originally Posted by charlesgan gone.
consider user permanent redirect from old domain to new domain. this is to minimize the impact You mean 301 redirect? Is it the best option in a situation like this? we changed our site's content redirection from html pages to Wordpress pages.
It seems different in this case but yes best option is to direct the old link to new domain.
i think there's a JavaScript code you can put on your code. just search 'PHP permanent' then there might be a helpful script for link/domain redirection on the results. If you're using Wordpress you can install the redirection plugin and use it to export/import all your URL's in a .htaccess format. This will solve any problems that you may otherwise experience. Another option is to sign up for Google's webmaster tools and tell them about the change of domain name inside the portal.
Good luck. Quote: Originally Posted by peteman You mean 301 redirect? Is it the best option in a situation like this? Yep.
Google / Yahoo / Bing etc, Should see it as a "move" and eventually your PR , backlinks etc will be ported across. ( As long as your old sites domain is still registered and has a valid 301 in there. ) redirect from old domain to new domain,this is the best idea... your new site is like new site only.....
it will not have any relation with older one..
the only thing you can do is to drive the visitors from existing site to new site....... Ok.. ive done the change via .htaccess 301 redirect. Everything's seems to run smoothly. Time will tell what happens to my rankings now
I've been running a personal blog of my own (in a style of firstnamelastname.com) concentrating on my music hobby and for a year and a half now I've been publishing some tutorial articles there as well alongside my song demos.
I'm getting ok traffic every day via Google for those tutorial articles and I've been ranking high for one specific search term for a several months now.
However, I'm going to make my blog a bit more tutorial/music tech news oriented and I was planning to move it on a new domain name.
What happens to my rankings if I change my domain name? What happens to the juice of various backlinks that are pointing to my blog? as i think your ranking will vanish and you will start all you did again Quote: Originally Posted by mimo91 as i think your ranking will vanish and you will start all you did again Doesnt sound good.. gone.
consider user permanent redirect from old domain to new domain. this is to minimize the impact Quote: Originally Posted by charlesgan gone.
consider user permanent redirect from old domain to new domain. this is to minimize the impact You mean 301 redirect? Is it the best option in a situation like this? we changed our site's content redirection from html pages to Wordpress pages.
It seems different in this case but yes best option is to direct the old link to new domain.
i think there's a JavaScript code you can put on your code. just search 'PHP permanent' then there might be a helpful script for link/domain redirection on the results. If you're using Wordpress you can install the redirection plugin and use it to export/import all your URL's in a .htaccess format. This will solve any problems that you may otherwise experience. Another option is to sign up for Google's webmaster tools and tell them about the change of domain name inside the portal.
Good luck. Quote: Originally Posted by peteman You mean 301 redirect? Is it the best option in a situation like this? Yep.
Google / Yahoo / Bing etc, Should see it as a "move" and eventually your PR , backlinks etc will be ported across. ( As long as your old sites domain is still registered and has a valid 301 in there. ) redirect from old domain to new domain,this is the best idea... your new site is like new site only.....
it will not have any relation with older one..
the only thing you can do is to drive the visitors from existing site to new site....... Ok.. ive done the change via .htaccess 301 redirect. Everything's seems to run smoothly. Time will tell what happens to my rankings now