Comments on: Moving your wordpress blog from one domain to other

By: Varinder

Varinder — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:02:31 +0000

Hi Sachin,
We are planning to move our current blog on wordpress to our site. I want to move my older blogposts as well to the new blog because we do not want to lose our traffic. Rather than buying domain mapping service, can i just write a snippet (maybe first paragraph) for every blogpost and leave a link “Read full article here” on the older blog that takes user to our new blog.

Do you think it is acceptable to search engines. I do not want my blog to get penalized for duplicate content. Reply soon.

By: Sachin Khosla

Sachin Khosla — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:31:18 +0000

anytime bro !

By: Chong

Chong — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:04:03 +0000

Thanks! You’ve been a great help. Appreciate alot.

By: Sachin Khosla

Sachin Khosla — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:49:37 +0000

By default Google will, by robots.txt you can control if you do not want google or other search engines to crawl certain part of your site.

There is a tool inside webmasters to create a customized robots.txt.
here is an example http://www.digimantra.com/robots.txt

By: Chong

Chong — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:26:15 +0000

I see. If there’s no robot.txt in my directory, does that mean the bots are allowed to crawl around my site?

By: Sachin Khosla

Sachin Khosla — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:20:27 +0000

@Chong Well that certainly depends upon Google, they do not specify a time frame, but it should be done gradually.

I kept the redirect on for an year or so and trust me did not lose traffic at all.

By: Chong

Chong — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:14:57 +0000

After submitting my new domain and all to Google Webmaster Tools, I realised that I can’t search my website in Google. Normally, how long does it takes to appear in search engine?

By: Sachin Khosla

Sachin Khosla — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:53:01 +0000

If re-direct is set property then the Users are redirected properly and so are the search engine crawlers.

Also there is an option in google webmasters to let know google that you are moving.

Here is the help link.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83105

By: Chong

Chong — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 07:45:40 +0000

Will number of visitors drop when one shift to a new domain? As in through search engine since PR will drop as well.

By: Sachin Khosla

Sachin Khosla — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:43:17 +0000

yeah if you are using wordpress’s export then it should import all your media files.

Setup the new domain once using the above step and then delete the old domain’s files.

By: Chong

Chong — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:15:56 +0000

Hi,

I’m planning to use a new domain and discard the current one. But the files will remain intact in the same server. So, should I be following the steps listed above? Or should I just edit the URL setting in Administration section of the old domain / blog to a new domain as well as edit wp_config.php file?

By: Sachin Khosla

Sachin Khosla — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:38:00 +0000

Hi Anil,

This can be done by any redirect plugin, if they allow you to install that. Otherwise you can use the domain mapping service provided by wordpress, follow this link
http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2006/10/24/domain-mapping-registration/

By: Anil Kumar Panigrahi

Anil Kumar Panigrahi — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:25:26 +0000

Hello sachin,

Thank you provide nice information. I have a free wordpress blog that is http://anil2u.worddpress.com , now i am taken own domain http://www.anil2u.info , i want to redirect the old to new blog using htaccess, can it possible. if yes please help me.

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