Host and Domain Change – How to Maintain SEO?

  • I’m moving my host, and eventually I want to change my domain too. Currently I’m hosting my site at one domain and have another domain forwarded to that one. I want to eventually switch everything to that other domain, but I want to do this without giving up SEO.

    I need to change my host relatively soon, so I guess I’ll move with the same domain for the time being. I have a couple of keywords I don’t want to give up my Google ranking.

    How do I change my domain while maintaining my ranking? Is there a good strategy for moving host and changing domain?

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  • Thread Starter nontechblogger

    (@nontechblogger)

    grrr how do I do the faster way?

    this is your .htaccess file at olddomain.com:

    Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) https://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

    This of course is done as soon as new site is setup with same url strings:

    newdomain.com/page1

    is same content as

    olddomain.com/page1

    etc.

    If posts or pages categories tags url’s etc. are not the same, it’s more involved.

    Thread Starter nontechblogger

    (@nontechblogger)

    That’s it? That’s the entire page? So I make a .htaccess file with this code and upload? I think I may be able to handle that. I’ll keep the rest of the urls exactly the same as my existing ones.

    That’s it?

    Yup!

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