Hi! I would like to know the best way I could change the domain of my site. Nevermind the content, It will remain the same.

However, I wanted to know what's the best way to redirect from old domain, How to not loose rankings (if there's how) and any advice you guys could give me.

I was also wondering that, Google already includes my blog on the blog results and some posts on the normal search engine, automatically, what helps on driving traffic. What can I do to keep it, if there's something to do, in new domain?

Thank you!

With htaccess, you can use a 301 redirect to the new website. So someone visits oldsite.com/<any url> and it redirects automatically to newsite.com/<any url>

Originally Posted by TheMadBlackHatter

With htaccess, you can use a 301 redirect to the new website. So someone visits oldsite.com/<any url> and it redirects automatically to newsite.com/<any url>

This is solid advise for having to switch hosting as well. (ie you move you site from hostgator to hostingthatdoesntsuck) pay for a month or with their htaccess switch to 301 and your PR rank should be good.

to be more specific, edit your old .htaccess file and use this code

PHP Code:

RedirectPermanent / http://www.newdomain.com/ 


btw, this is after you move the site to your new domain & hosting

You will notice an decline in traffic and rankings--just to warn you. Eventually it will go back up, but not to the same serp rankings as before unless you start building backlinks to the new domain.

Thank you guys for the tips. Anyone else, please?