Guest Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 I have a customer who wants to change a domain name. currently http://www.stnickco.com to http://www.reindeer-ranch.com I am not to sure the best way to go about this with the minimum disruption, and maintain indexing. Should i just have reindeer ranch point to stnickco, and then submit reindeer-ranch.com? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 From my point of view ....just change the path in both your admin/includes/configure.php and catalog/includes/configure.php HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 10, 2003 Share Posted February 10, 2003 Don't think I was too clear... I don't want to screw the search engines up by this.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loxly Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 I would point them both to the same domain, submit the new domain name, and in about a month to six weeks they should pick up the new domain. I don't know if I would turn off the current domain, I would do a search for sites that are linked to you in Google and some of the other search engines. Link popularity is very important these days. After a domain name change (unintentional) I am still finding links to the old domain and trying to get the links pointing to the correct place :) Debbie [no external urls in signatures please, kthanks] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 If you wish to take my own experience with search engine optimization, I would strongly recommend you to do the following: 1. *maintain* the existing domain name (esp. if it has SE rankings/inbound linkages) 2. Build useful links from existing domain to the new domain. 3. Ask everyone who is linking to the existing domain, to include the new domain too. And, tell them how they will benefit from it (richer content, new features, etc.) HTH Sunny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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