[SEO Question] - Moving site to a new domain
 

I need to move my website to a different domain name.
Did anyone try this with success? (without loosing SE rankings)...

I know there's many SEO guides/tutorials on how to do it (301 redirects, etc.), but
they're all like "do this and that, but we're no sure that you'll not loose everything"...

Matt Cutts also says some bullshit, but it seems to me that he don't even know how Google will react for such change - [link]

I'm sure lots of people have tried it and got an increase in their search results, I'm sure lots of people have tried it and got a decrease in their search results.

No one here can tell you what's going to happen because the Internet doesn't work that way.

Stop being a pussy faggot; man up and 301 that shit to your new shiny URL.

Just try it and see what happens! :)

In google webmaster tools you can tell the bot you have moved to a new address. As for the rest, it will take them time to find that out and 301 redirect is the best solution, though 301 redirect does not pass the whole rank. Use what is best for your purposes and don't give a shit.

there is no way not to loose rankings..

Even when you do it properly - you will loose rankings and that will happen twice:

1) there will be a slight drop within the 2nd week;
2) you will start sliding down slowly for quite a time, after 4-6 weeks..

no 301-s, webmaster tools nor even Matt Cutts will be able to help you.

but you should be back within 2-3 months if you fight back.

The same applies when you move your site from http to https

-- my suggestion - work on powerful social signals very hard from high authority people from the day 1.

good luck,
Helmuts

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Use .htaccess 301 redirect

does 301 automatically redirects real visitors too?

I think moving site from one domain to another is seo suicide. Unless you will still keep 1st one and redirect it all to another in proper way then you might keep a bit of it still alive but for a long run anyway... suicide.

Do all what was said:

1.- On google webmaster tools register both sites, the new one and the old one. Then there on the configuration menu, on the old site specify that the site will be changed to the new one.

2.- Redirect all the URLS that pointed to the old site, to the new site, with 301 redirection. Depending on how your new site will be, you can either redirect each old URL to the new URL just specifying 301 URL REDIRECT on the host records to the new site, or redirect all the old URLS to the homepage of your new site, again on host records making a 301 Redirect URL, but without slash (this symbol "/") at the end of your new address, so everything will be redirected to the root of the new domain.

301 redirections also redirects human visitors, so do not worry about that.


I make a transfer like this one, and to recover the slight consequences, I made some SEO campaigns. I recovered after 1 month and after 2 months I was actually better (a lot much better) than before. So do not worry too much.:pimp

just move it...you'll lose serps and traffic initially but probably do better in the long run

I was found topic just about that:

https://support.google.com/webmaster...n&answer=83105

That should be enough. :thumbsup

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bump to madtwin see this.

good article - but remember that Google have been fucking webmasters in all the holes for ages...

Do what you have to do and prepare to loose rankings.

i lick doggy dollop..

I have moved many sites. I have had mixed results. On some I kept #1. On others I lost it. The best results were acquired when I also went back and had most of my backlinks changed to the new domain as well.