Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice/ Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-20 Thread Jim Giner
On 8/20/2012 12:19 AM, Jim Lucas wrote: On 8/17/2012 6:35 PM, Jim Giner wrote: On 8/17/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: You could simply remove all full domain+path URL links and replace them with absolute path urls only. turn http://www.somedomain.com/path/to/my/webpage.html into

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice/ Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-20 Thread Sebastian Krebs
2012/8/20 Jim Giner jim.gi...@albanyhandball.com On 8/20/2012 12:19 AM, Jim Lucas wrote: On 8/17/2012 6:35 PM, Jim Giner wrote: On 8/17/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: You could simply remove all full domain+path URL links and replace them with absolute path urls only. turn

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice/ Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-19 Thread Jim Lucas
On 8/17/2012 6:35 PM, Jim Giner wrote: On 8/17/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: You could simply remove all full domain+path URL links and replace them with absolute path urls only. turn http://www.somedomain.com/path/to/my/webpage.html into /path/to/my/webpage.html This would work with

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice/ Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-19 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Jim Lucas li...@cmsws.com wrote: On 8/17/2012 6:35 PM, Jim Giner wrote: On 8/17/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: You could simply remove all full domain+path URL links and replace them with absolute path urls only. turn

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-18 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:35:11PM -0600, Tristan wrote: So, I need to change from somedomain.com to somenewdomain.com I was thinking of doing this 1) create an alias to the site somenewdomain.com to point to current server 2) run permanent 301 redirect from somedomain.com to

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-18 Thread Daniel Brown
On Aug 18, 2012 4:49 PM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: I can comment on part of this based on what I was recently told by an SEO company. Let's assume you've got a bunch of SEO goodness (recognition, Google search placement, etc.) going for you on site1.com. If you a permanent

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-18 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 05:10:39PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: On Aug 18, 2012 4:49 PM, Paul M Foster [1]pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: I can comment on part of this based on what I was recently told by an SEO company. Let's assume you've got a bunch of SEO goodness

[PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Tristan
So, I need to change from somedomain.com to somenewdomain.com I was thinking of doing this 1) create an alias to the site somenewdomain.com to point to current server 2) run permanent 301 redirect from somedomain.com to somenewdomain.com I was thinking this was a clean safe way to do it so we

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Jonathan Sundquist
Depending on how long you have why not just do an alias? No redirect required. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Tristan sunnrun...@gmail.com wrote: So, I need to change from somedomain.com to somenewdomain.com I was thinking of doing this 1) create an alias to the site somenewdomain.com to

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Sebastian Krebs
If you need to change the domain completely, choose 301. - Crawler will recognize it and will update their indexes quite soon. Especially you avoid duplicate content-punishments, because you say yourself, that the content originally comes from another domain, that isn't anymore (Like It's not

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Tristan
Jonathan, Yeah that was my intention but, I think search engines will hit you for duped content if you're running two domains same content. So, the idea was to redirect 301 style and have an alias. -T On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Jonathan Sundquist jsundqu...@gmail.comwrote: Depending on

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Tristan sunnrun...@gmail.com wrote: So, I need to change from somedomain.com to somenewdomain.com I was thinking of doing this 1) create an alias to the site somenewdomain.com to point to current server 2) run permanent 301 redirect from somedomain.com to

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Tristan
Sebastian, I'll check into 307 I haven't used that before but, this really is a permanent redirect. They are going to a shorter domain. About the SEO part of it though. Would it be good to find replace all internal links from somedomain.com to somenewdomain.com or will it follow the 301 with no

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Tristan
Daniel, Why thank you for your mercy. That is precisely why I belong to this list. Happy Friday! My colleague is saying but I still think we should change all the references to someolddomain.comhttp://farmcreditnetwork.com/ to some newdomain, especially in the code base, database etc... I

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Tristan sunnrun...@gmail.com wrote: My colleague is saying but I still think we should change all the references to someolddomain.com to some newdomain, especially in the code base, database etc... I don't want to introduce more problems if a find/replace

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice / Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Jim Lucas
On 08/17/2012 01:09 PM, Tristan wrote: Sebastian, I'll check into 307 I haven't used that before but, this really is a permanent redirect. They are going to a shorter domain. About the SEO part of it though. Would it be good to find replace all internal links from somedomain.com to

Re: [PHP] Cost of redirect and site domain switch? Good Practice/ Bad Practice / Terrible Practice

2012-08-17 Thread Jim Giner
On 8/17/2012 7:16 PM, Jim Lucas wrote: On 08/17/2012 01:09 PM, Tristan wrote: Sebastian, I'll check into 307 I haven't used that before but, this really is a permanent redirect. They are going to a shorter domain. About the SEO part of it though. Would it be good to find replace all internal