As you all know orkutheroes.com is know flockpost.com, changing the blog’s domain is a big deal because you never want to lose your traffic. I searched for how to sustain my traffic along with the change in domain name. I found a number of sites suggesting 301 Permanent [Perma] Redirection using .htaccess file. But I did it a different way and here’s how I did it without writing a single line of code and without editing my .htaccess file.
Almost every blogger uses Linux hosting for his/her WordPress blog. And if you have access to the cPanel, you need not worry about the 301 Perma Redirection.
Requirements for redirection: Your existing domain must be added as “Parked Domain”. A parked domain has the same nameservers as provided by your Web Host so that, it can also be used to access your site. It is most widely used when you want to access your site with all possible domains such as .com, .net, .org, .info etc. Also, make sure that you have already set your hosting nameservers for the new domain so that your site will not be down when you are shifting to the new domain. We will be using this Parked Domain for Redirection.
Next, Follow these steps:
- Login to your cPanel.
- Look for “Change Primary Domain Option”, this feature depends on your hosting. Change your primary domain to “newdomain.com”
- Add your old domain to “Parked Domains”.
- Look for “Domain Redirects / Redirects” option.
- After you click on “Redirects”, you will land on the redirection page.
- Select type as “Permanent (301)”
- Then in next field select your old domain to redirect.
- In the “redirects to” field enter your new domain as http://newdomain.com or http://www.newdomain.com
- Select “Redirect with or without www.” For www redirection. This is necessary for a visitor may use your domain with “www” or without “www”.
- Finally, click “Add” and you are done.
Using these 10 steps you can have a permanent redirection without editing .htaccess file.
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Thanks for sharing this one. Wonder if changing URL name has hurt the page rank. I guess it does to an extent but the content is great already so shouldnt be a problem in the long run.
Yeh.!! it has affected the PR . Let's hope that everything gets back to what it was and even better