DISQUS

Matt Cutts · 1 year ago

It's all part of our "Make Matt superfluous" project, which I happily support. :)

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Jaan Kanellis · 1 year ago

Actually I think Matt is very magnanimous. Now that could be a domain name:

www.magnanimousmatt.com

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Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Matt - we can never get enough of you!
@Jaan - lol

Steven Bradley · 1 year ago

Matt any chance we can get something in Webmaster Tools so we can say "hey, we're moving" and make the process a little smoother?

Are magnaninmousematt and Mighty Mouse cousins? Here we come to save the day. Must mean magnanimousematt is on his way.

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Jaan Kanellis · 1 year ago

yes adding a feature in GWT tools for moving individual pages or whole websites would be a god send for many.

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Steve Teal · 1 year ago

A tool to do a website move would be very helpful especially when we need to rebrand. I got a good laugh about the part reaching out and contacting every webmaster who links back to my site to tell them to update. That in itself is scary. ~Steve

Nicole · 1 year ago

Another good laugh today. You must be on a high. Google and money back indeed!

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Web Marketing Man · 1 year ago

The money back offer sure is an eye-grabbing headline...thought it was too good to be true, hahahah. The information offered is worth it though,
hopefully I wont need to go through this process in a hurry!

fordy · 1 year ago

I have a website with lots of visitors that might be closing down soon and I was wondering what would happen if I redirected all of the pages to another domain (with a 301 redirect), but to the top level. The two sites are unrelated so I don't know what effect it would have. Any ideas?

http://www.domainnamesoup.com

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Fordy - read the Google post, they address that question.

Marketing Chester · 1 year ago

ANDY, I need to redirect to a new domain (like yesterday) but I am getting realy confused with all the articles I have read.
I have a 5 page static website hosted on windows 2003, as Matt Cutts states I see I need to do a page to page redirect, I understand this far.
I spoke to my hosts technical support (fasthosts.co.uk) and only got a brief "you need to write a script and we dont provide script support" :(
From what I have read is it correct that I need a "server side" redirect? not a "client side - meaning a script?" If so can you explain how I do this please, I feel lost at the moment :(
p.s. I have no expertise in scripts or using redirects.

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Chester - you should probably hire someone, if you're not sure. A lot of things could go wrong.

If you want more information, simply Google "301 redirect" and you should find plenty of advice.

Marketing Chester · 1 year ago

@Andy, thanks for your reply. I have Google'd this many times and found lots of info but just keep going round in circles trying to understand it. I will try fasthosts technical support again and hopefuly get through to someone more helpful.
Am I correct in thinking I need this done server side ie. will need to get them to do it as it's a shared server?

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Chester - it's a server side command, but you can implement it using your htaccess file.

Internet Marketing Chester · 1 year ago

@Andy, Thanks for the help, I have moved old site to linux and made an .htaccess 301 file (page to page), I think all done correctly, seems ok so far. Will be interesting to see how Google deals with it when next spiders my site :)

Andy Beal · 1 year ago

@Chester - make sure you are signed up and verified with Google Webmaster Central. If there are any issues, you'll see them there.

Internet Marketing Chester · 1 year ago

@Andy - Is the .htaccess code below correct?

redirect 301 /index.html http://www.newdomain.co.uk/
redirect 301 /oldpage.html http://www.newdomain.co.uk/newpage.html

ie. sending index to domain without the /index.html I did it this way because I dont want www.newdomain.co.uk/index.html file in the results only the www.newdomain.co.uk/ My site map only contains the non /index file.

Im thinking of canonical issues and thought would be good to do it this way?

Internet Marketing Chester · 1 year ago

oops please edit my last comment (take the dead links out) and delete this one, sorry.

Internet Marketing Chester · 1 year ago

@Andy, I found a real great website with this tool: "Redirect Check SEO Tool" @ http://www.ragepank.com/redirect-check/ and it shows that my index.html and non index homepage are both 301 redirecting to my new site non index version, so I guess all is ok. :)
I have come into another problem that I cant find an answer to - As stated above by Matt Cutts
"Finally, keep both your new and old site verified in Webmaster Tools"
- in webmaster tools my old site is now NOT verified, i supose Googlebot has been redirected to my new site and read the new meta tag there (instead of one on old site) and is now seeing it as wrong. Should I put my old verification meta tag in my new site as well as the new one? Is this the way to have them both verified after redirecting?? I dont want to try this without confirmation its the right thing to do!
- I would really appreciate any ideas on this one, maybe Matt should have covered this in the official guide?

Internet Marketing Chester · 1 year ago

Ok it wasnt rocket science, i worked it out. Needed html verification method not the meta tag lol :)