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What is the recommended/suggested method for transferring a domain parked website to Wordpress?

by paulie888
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I've never done this before (not in this sequence anyhow), so please bear with me. I have someone I'm working with who wants to transfer a couple of his domains which are currently parked with a domain parking company to Wordpress (he wants to develop them into full-blown sites with search-engine friendly content).

He is getting a fair amount of existing traffic that is earning him money via the domain parking company. If I'm going to point the DNS of these parked domains to a new host and install Wordpress on it, what's the best sequence of doing this so as to retain as much of the pre-existing traffic as possible? I'd just like to get suggestions and thoughts from people who have done this before, and know the most appropriate way of accomplishing the website switchover.
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Does anyone here have thoughts on this issue, and the preferred way to handle this procedure?
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    • Profile picture of the author MarketAbel
      Ok I will take a crack at this one... Seems simple enough and just about every true IMer out there knows how to do this, just maybe they are reading too much into your situation.

      1. Setup the web hosting account first. You will have to search for the right clicks, but there is always a way to set up a hosting account WITHOUT a domain name.
      2. Look for what the URL of the hosting account is without the domain name. Sometimes if it is a shared hosting account it will be some off the wall URL with an account number.
      3. Setup the Wordpress installation using this weird URL.
      4. Create the Wordpress site the way you want it to look once it is live with the domain name.
      5. Once the Wordpress is live and looking good with SEO keywords and pretty images then <thx Istvan!> edit your site settings to replace the temporary URL to the actual domain name you plan to use.
      6. Now edit your registrar DNS settings (name server info).
      7. Once the new DNS settings propagate, your site will then pop up showing the Wordpress site.
      Hope that was what you were looking for.... any more Qs?
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  • Profile picture of the author CliveG
    Assuming that the existing traffic is from people who type the domain name into their browser and not search engine traffic all you need to do is set up a website that includes some way of monetizing the traffic and then changing the DNS settings to point web traffic to the new server.

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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Thanks Abel, this has been a tremendous help. I already know how to do all of the above and this is not the issue at all, it is just the preferred sequence in which to do things so as to retain as much of the existing traffic from the parked domain as possible. I knew intuitively that this would be the best way to go about it, but I just needed confirmation from others. Thinking about it some more, it is completely logical that you'd want to populate the WP site with as much search-engine friendly content as possible before pointing the DNS to it, as this would give the search engines something to look at when the DNS switch occurs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Istvan Horvath
    One small thing to save you some frustration

    After (before?) executing Step #5 as outlined by Abel, you may want to be sure that the
    "home" and "site_url" values in your blog's database (wp_options table) are set correctly, i.e. changed from hostcompany.com/users/~yourID to the real domain name.

    Just a reminder: those values are stored in the database and any internal link in a WP installation takes the URLs from there!
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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    Thanks for the tip, Istvan. It'd be nice if Wordpress would automatically update your URLs and internal links, but at least it's not a complicated and/or time consuming procedure!
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