The name of the website or domain name is its address in network. Its change can lead to loss of your website from search engines and, as a result, to loss of almost all traffic. Let's consider several receptions how to change the name of the website without prejudice to its attendance.
It is required to you
- computer, Internet access
Instruction
1. To save all pages of your website in the index of search engines, it is rather simple to you to configure a redirect of its pages of the website on similar pages with the new domain. What for this purpose is necessary?
Transfer all content of the website to the new domain. For this purpose buy the domain, configure the DNS server and, after delegation, tie the new domain to the old website.
2. At the next stage carry out a redirect. Find the .htaccess file in the root directory of the website and register in it the next lines:
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (. *) http://имя_нового_сайта.ru/$1 [R=301,L]
After implementation of this procedure all users and search robots who follow the links to the old addresses of pages of your website will be automatically redirected to the new addresses.
3. Add a new domain name for indexation by Yandex and Google search engines to Yandex. Webmaster and Google Webmaster, respectively. To carry out reindexation as soon as possible, achieve that searchers saw your site map, both with new, and with the old addresses. For this purpose on the homepage place the link to it. The site map with the old addresses will give the chance to update indexation of pages at which the redirect is configured. The new card will allow to index pages which were created after change of the name of the website.
4. After that make so that upon transition by the old domain the user got on page 404 in which it would be specified that the website changed the name, and now has other address.