I changed over my domain name a couple of days ago from a temporary dyndns.org domain. I read all I could find about changing the domain without loosing the Google ranking. I guess I missed something, because my traffic has dropped to 5% of the normal amount. I did a mod_rewrite to do a permanent redirect to let the search engines know I changed domain. I thought that it would be enough. Fuck…
But I really don’t care, as long as you readers find it here.
Hello?
Anyone there?
….
5 responses so far ↓
1 Roy Schestowitz // Mar 4, 2005 at 04:51
A re-direct is said to be a solution, but from what I hear it often does not work, not immediately anyway. Also, Jacken, have a look at the following: http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html
According to this, you might have to wait a month for PageRank (hence traffic and search results) to kick in…
Be patient.
2 Roy Schestowitz // Mar 4, 2005 at 07:09
Just a small update: a rumour at the SEO newsgroups says that the next PR update is in the beginning of April. This happens every 3-4 months.
3 Jacken // Mar 5, 2005 at 01:29
Yeah, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for the next PR update, Roy. Thanks for the tip.
4 David // Nov 23, 2005 at 14:09
Just saw your problem mentioned in the NG alt.internet.search-engines
Re: How to ‘retire’ a page and point it to the new URL without Google.penalty
You might have made a mistake. See my post below-
He said-
“I did a mod_rewrite to do a permanent redirect to let the search engines know I changed domain”
Which is not the same as a 301 redirect.
Put it this way if you go to a page on the old domain (not just the home page, all pages) does it redirect to the same page, but on the new domain and if it does, does the old page give a 301 status?
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/servercheck.cgi
If the answer isn’t yes to both these questions you haven’t done a 301 for every page of the site and this will mean you loose all your deeper page PR and SERPs. You’ve started from scratch!!
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