will 301 redirect be enougth? or I'll Lose all of the SEO ..

Yellow Slider · #1 07-18-2007, 06:22 AM

I want to change a domain name for my site,
my domain name is atraf-f.net
and it exists something like 2 years ~
I have something like 180,000+ pages that are indexed on google,
and something like 50% of my daily traffic comes from google.
I'm afraid that if i'll change the domain name i'll lose alot of my PR,TR
I'm in top locations on google for some words(major), I've exchanged a lot of links,
and this domain should get PR4-5 in the next update.

I've used redirect 301 in an other site that i own, atraf-f.net/or
every page at that domain will redirect you to the same page in the new domain and it's 301, and untill now, non of the pages were re indexed with the new domain, this site is a VB system too, all the pages that are indexed with this new domain are pages that were indexed just after the we started using the new domain (new pages that were generated just after we moved a domain)

What should I do? I want to keep all the SEO works that was done on my domain (atraf-f.net) and to move to a new domain name.

Joe Ward · #2 07-20-2007, 06:18 PM

If you are doing well now, unless there is some urgent reason to move the domain, I would avoid doing so.

Ncturnal · #3 08-05-2007, 04:36 PM

I'm doing to the same thing and we are moving our forums to a higher ranking domain. We have a lot of pages indexed and the original site is doing well, but the new domain name is better and has been established longer. What is the best approach to take when not moving is not a viable option?

Joe Ward · #4 08-05-2007, 05:10 PM

You keep the old domain in place, but set-up a custom 301 redirect on the site to direct it to the new domain.

Ncturnal · #5 08-05-2007, 05:34 PM

How do I 301 redirect the entire site? I already have a duplicate copy of all data on both sites. I just want to 301 to the new one and delete the content from the old site. Is there a way to have all old links (www.oldsite.com/forums/thread) redirect automatically to www.newsite.com/forums/thread)?

I tried setting this user advisement, but it didn't do what I was hoping for.

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.newsite.com/$1 [R]

Ncturnal · #6 08-05-2007, 06:34 PM

Got it figured out. We just did the following in the /public_html .htaccess file.

redirect 301 / http://www.newsite.com

This auto-updates any old inbound link with the new domain name. Thanks for your help!

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