On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 00:16 +0000, Amos Shapira wrote: > On Feb 5, 2008 3:14 AM, Jeremy Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep, as Alex suggested, a HTTP redirect is what you need. > > On top of the technical stuff covered by Alex and Jeremy, I'd suggest > considering adding a page for those you arrive through the old domain > name suggesting that they'll update their bookmarks or the page they > arrived through to record the new domain name, because once the old > .org.au domain DNS record is gone they'll reach either a black hole or > maybe worse - another web site altogether.
But if you do a 301 redirect properly, Google will pick up your domain change _really_ fast. Google doesn't know that your domain has changed if you just put up a normal HTML file, thus you'll have stale search results in the index.
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