You want to change your website's domain name, why? Is it because you want one with your business' relevant keywords in it - simple or maybe not.
You probably started out with a funky or quirky domain name, say:
www.bobscoolstore.com
But now a few years down the line you realise you want to actually generate some money through the website, its vanity role is over. So, your business is selling blue widgets, therefore you think the optimum domain name would be:
www.bluewidgets.com
Showing posts with label domain names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label domain names. Show all posts
Monday, 19 September 2011
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Registrars 301 Redirect
You own two website domains and they’re both registered with the same registrar, for example:
mywebsite.co.uk
mywebsite.com
But you only want one of the domains to render, for example:
mywebsite.com
Simple you think, I'll use the web forwarding that my registrar provides; you carry this out, and hey presto it works - you type in 'mywebsite.co.uk' press return and you're redirected instantaneously to 'mywebsite.com'.
But it's not as simple as all that, because you see, most registrars don't use a search engine friendly 301 permanent redirect, no they use the not so friendly 302 temporary redirect; you can easily check yours by carrying out a 'server header check' at:
SEO Consultants
What’s you're options to implement a search engine friendly 301 redirect?
Go to the 'root folder' of your website, open up the .htaccess file and add a little 301 rewrite, for example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mywebsite\.co.uk [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1?%1 [R=301]
You can read a little more about redirects here: redirects using search engine friendly 301.
But, before carrying out any changes to your root folder, make precautions and save the original file first and remember this is for 'php' sites – things are different with 'asp' and naturally I can't accept any liability ;-)
A better way of course, would be for the domain registrars to change their web forwarding from a 302 temporary to a Google friendly 301 permanent.
mywebsite.co.uk
mywebsite.com
But you only want one of the domains to render, for example:
mywebsite.com
Simple you think, I'll use the web forwarding that my registrar provides; you carry this out, and hey presto it works - you type in 'mywebsite.co.uk' press return and you're redirected instantaneously to 'mywebsite.com'.
But it's not as simple as all that, because you see, most registrars don't use a search engine friendly 301 permanent redirect, no they use the not so friendly 302 temporary redirect; you can easily check yours by carrying out a 'server header check' at:
SEO Consultants
What’s you're options to implement a search engine friendly 301 redirect?
Go to the 'root folder' of your website, open up the .htaccess file and add a little 301 rewrite, for example:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?mywebsite\.co.uk [NC]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(.*)$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1?%1 [R=301]
You can read a little more about redirects here: redirects using search engine friendly 301.
But, before carrying out any changes to your root folder, make precautions and save the original file first and remember this is for 'php' sites – things are different with 'asp' and naturally I can't accept any liability ;-)
A better way of course, would be for the domain registrars to change their web forwarding from a 302 temporary to a Google friendly 301 permanent.
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