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How To Move Website To New Domain

by Saidar
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Hello warriors

My main website that I have been working on contains about 40 articles at the moment... But my problem is the google trust filter and bad links that I got from many directories when I didn't know much about SEO... I have read a lot of posts saying that it takes about a year for a new website on a new domain to be recognized for a main keyword that gets many searches a month.

So recently I bought a domain at godaddy, 4 years old with pagerank of 4, and some links pointing to it, so I want to move my site to that domain, I figured google would trust my site a lot faster than it does with my new domain that is about 3 months old.

How do I do this? Must I first get all of my pages de-indexed, and then put up the new site or is a duplicate site ok with google? How do I tell google I'm moving my site?
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficVault
    Hi Saidar,

    There is a whole process to follow to make sure that your new site gets picked up by Google. You can set up a 301 redirect from the old site to the new one. This acts as a forwarding address, telling the search engines to check you out on the new domain. You will also want to set up the XML sitemaps and go back to the good quality links you've attained and get them to switch over the url they are pointing to. However, you may want to start from scratch if you believe the old domain was penalized in some way. Let me know if I can be of further help.
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficVault
    Hi Saidar,

    There is a whole process to follow to make sure that your new site gets picked up by Google. You can set up a 301 redirect from the old site to the new one. This acts as a forwarding address, telling the search engines to check you out on the new domain. You will also want to set up the XML sitemaps and go back to the good quality links you've attained and get them to switch over the url they are pointing to. However, you may want to start from scratch if you believe the old domain was penalized in some way. Let me know if I can be of further help.
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    • Profile picture of the author Puerto uno
      need to buy new domain first than put the hosting nameserver code to domain setting.
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  • Profile picture of the author intelinside
    I have recently moved my couple of websites to new domains/hosting using 301 redirects and it has worked well.

    Here is a good article on G webmasters blog central about Best practices when moving your site
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    • Profile picture of the author Saidar
      Thanks guys, if anyone could give me instructions on how to do redirect my pages to the new domain? html code?
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