__/ [James Helliwell] on Wednesday 14 September 2005 14:53 \__
> Hi I have re-done a web site the old site is
> www.wheatsheaf-inn.com
>
> rubbish site.. well used and good google rank for some things has some
> good links to it, PR4
>
> I have made a new site on a different domian and we have control of this
> old site
>
> I want to utalise the fact that the site is well established. If I do a
> redirect to the new domain will the hidden old site drop out of rankings?
>
> I also want to put some links from the old site as it has a PR4...
>
> Ideas?? if you undersatnd that lol
> james
Hi James,
Have a look at some of Google's answers, e.g.:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html
>From the way you describe the situation, it is clearly the case that you
/primarily/ wish to transfer/preserve your PageRank; so I assume anyway.
You must also seek a solution that will redirect /all/ crawlers in the
right direction.
Write a mod_rewrite if you use Apache so as to indicate a permanent address
change. I think it is 301 that's the code you must pass. This way, you
allow the search engine to have the notion of a domain change.
Be very careful in the way you go about implementing this, or else...
http://www.jackenhack.com/blog/archives/2005/03/03/bye-bye-pagerank-when-changing-domain/
Here are some pages that will give you necessary instructions:
http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E305.html
(Replace 305 with 304, 303, 302, 301)
John Bokma in this group might be able to help you further.
Roy
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