Hi Dan
Are you wanting to use the .com as an international website in the future? Then I suggest that you put up a temporary website with a few new pages on the .com website, and conceptually start from scratch with your .co.nz website. If you do the redirect as you have stated (htaccess redirect of everything to new website), then you will lose the power attached to your current domain. The new domain will still in general not rank well on the search engines until its gets old enough - immediate ranking for non competitive search phrases, a number of months for competitive search phrases, despite any redirects from .com You could do a hybrid of the above - New pages on .com - If there is a pattern for the old url's, or url by url - do an htaccess redirect from all old .com url's (apart from home page), to the equivalent url's in the .co.nz website The link text and PR attached to the incoming links will be passed through the 301 redirect from .com to .co.nz, but the .co.nz website will still need to age before it gets best rankings. Most of your incoming links would have been to the .com homepage, so you probably would not get too much value from those redirects apart from giving the best user experience of people Googling, finding the .com url's in the serps, and then being redirected to the .co.nz - until Google deletes the old url's from its cache and updates with the .co.nz url's Does that give the answers you are after? Kind Regards Michael Michael Brandon Search Engine Mastery Getting you to the top of the Search Engines http://www.SearchMasters.co.nz Ph: 09 8132307, Mob: 021 728889, Skype: SearchMasters From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Khan Sent: Thursday, 2 April 2009 12:54 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [phpug] [OT] Moving websites between domains - SERPs fallout Hi, I've got a site currently running on a .com domain and I'd like to move it to a .co.nz domain and redirect .com traffic -> .co.nz in preparation for using the .com as an international site. Obviously the .com has been stable on the search engines for the last year, and I want to try to minimise any associated fallout of the SERPs with the domain move. Has anyone done this before and have any advice, or can anyone point me to some best-practice articles? Thanks in advance, -Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
