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<blockquote data-quote="bhartzer" data-source="post: 2341426" data-attributes="member: 93963"><p>When you migrate a website to another domain name, there's a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. I've actually been migrating domains for years now; many hire me to do domain migrations. If you don't do it properly you WILL lose rankings and traffic to the site.</p><p></p><p>You will definitely want to use 301 Permanent Redirects to redirect to the new domain name. Also, make sure that you put some content on the domain you're moving TO, make sure it can get indexed in Google, and verify it in Google Search Console. Make sure that when you do get it indexed that the content matches (the same topic) what you're moving to it. For example, if it's a music site make sure you put content related to music on it and let it get indexed. Don't have other content like sports content on it, that will only confuse the search engines.</p><p></p><p>Crawl the website and record all of the URLs; set up 301 redirects from the old pages to the new pages on the new domain. Ideally the actual page names and filenames won't change, just the domain name should change. Once you've moved the content, set up the 301 redirects on the old domain name, test that they're working, and then go ahead and use the Google Change of Address form to tell them you've moved.</p><p></p><p>If you really want to get deep into learning about domain migrations, I've put together a pretty extensive guide together for OnCrawl that details everything you need to know: <a href="https://www.oncrawl.com/technical-seo/domain-migration/" target="_blank">https://www.oncrawl.com/technical-seo/domain-migration/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bhartzer, post: 2341426, member: 93963"] When you migrate a website to another domain name, there's a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. I've actually been migrating domains for years now; many hire me to do domain migrations. If you don't do it properly you WILL lose rankings and traffic to the site. You will definitely want to use 301 Permanent Redirects to redirect to the new domain name. Also, make sure that you put some content on the domain you're moving TO, make sure it can get indexed in Google, and verify it in Google Search Console. Make sure that when you do get it indexed that the content matches (the same topic) what you're moving to it. For example, if it's a music site make sure you put content related to music on it and let it get indexed. Don't have other content like sports content on it, that will only confuse the search engines. Crawl the website and record all of the URLs; set up 301 redirects from the old pages to the new pages on the new domain. Ideally the actual page names and filenames won't change, just the domain name should change. Once you've moved the content, set up the 301 redirects on the old domain name, test that they're working, and then go ahead and use the Google Change of Address form to tell them you've moved. If you really want to get deep into learning about domain migrations, I've put together a pretty extensive guide together for OnCrawl that details everything you need to know: [URL]https://www.oncrawl.com/technical-seo/domain-migration/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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