moving my site from a reseller to my own account

  • I have my site with a reseller; I wish to move it to my own account. He is a Hostgator reseller and I set up a duplicate account of my own on hostgator with the same domain name, login name but different password.

    I also uploaded all the wordpress files except the database through filezilla.

    I think all I have to do is upload the latest database SQL file and point the URL to the new name server.

    What order shall I do this to save my rank on Google? Should I upload the duplicate database, point the URL to the new name server, delete all the files from the old reseller account and then change the privacy setting to open it to the search engines?

    Is there anything in the database I have to change because of the new IP address? are there any links that will have to be changed through the search and replace?

    What if there is bad blood and he decided to re-upload the site under a different domain name, will that hurt me?

    Thanks,

    Jack

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  • Firstly, I recommend getting a Hostgator business plan for yourself. It’s link $15/month or less.

    If you don’t have CPanel access, ask your guy to just install wordpress via cpanel to a directory you choose.

    Meanwhile, in wp-admin, click on Tools > Export and download the XML doc and then when your new wordpress install is done, in the new wp-admin, Tools > Import and import the XML file you downloaded.

    Point domain to new nameserver and directory and you should be gold.

    Thread Starter thegrons

    (@thegrons)

    Thanks I have access to both C Panels so I thought it was just a matter of turning one on and the other off?

    Thread Starter thegrons

    (@thegrons)

    Firstly, I recommend getting a Hostgator business plan for yourself. It’s link $15/month or less.

    If you don’t have CPanel access, ask your guy to just install wordpress via cpanel to a directory you choose.

    Meanwhile, in wp-admin, click on Tools > Export and download the XML doc and then when your new wordpress install is done, in the new wp-admin, Tools > Import and import the XML file you downloaded.

    Point domain to new nameserver and directory and you should be gold.

    thanks Alikaee, but I think I am just about done my question is the order in which to fire up the new site and shut down the old one to not loose any web ranking. I don’t want google to see duplicate data bases and penalize my entire site so I am not sure if I should move the name server first, delete the old account, and then start the new one or which order. Maybe a question for hostgator?

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