August 29th, 2003
03:12 PM
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changing hosting
I have an old site that was made for my business a few years ago. It's hosted on some server with the plan due to run out nexy year. It looks crap but it is rating very highly in the search engines.
If I move the site to a different server will I lose the search engine rankings?
I have now designed a site for the same business, hosted it and recently registered it with the search engines. It looks better but is not ranking yet.
Can I redirect hits from the old site to the new one somehow?
August 29th, 2003
03:21 PM
moving the site to another wont affect search engines at all. aslong as your not down for weeks its doubtful search engines will even notice the difference.
you would just transfer your domain to the new host, along with all the files. This way it would be exactly the same as before, you wont need to do any directing 
Chris
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August 29th, 2003
03:27 PM
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So I just transfer the domain name?
I'm not entirely with you. What about the files of the old one?
What I want to do is keep the search engine hits from the old site but direct visitors to the new site.
August 29th, 2003
03:36 PM
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just move the files over, and transfer the domain. The search engines index by URL. If you move the better design to the main page, then that's what'll get the hits. If worst comes to worst then just set up a page redirect.
August 29th, 2003
03:46 PM
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The problem is while they are both for the same business , both are different companies i.e. different names and different domain names.
August 29th, 2003
06:46 PM
domain.com
domain2.com
you want to redirect domain2.com to go to domain.com
for domain 2 just put this as your index page:
<html>
<head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://domain.com"></head>
</html>
everyone who visits domain2.com will be redirected to domain.com, the only page that exists on domain2.com is the redirect so dont expect a huge database of results from the page once its indexed
Chris
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August 30th, 2003
09:13 AM
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So , even if I kept all the meta keyword/description tags, title and page text as well, the search engines would bypass it because of the the refresh tag?
What I mean to say is, domain2 would no longer come up in search engines?
August 30th, 2003
09:57 AM
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well if you put a standard link in there as well the search engine wll follow that...
(<a href="domain2.com">domain2.com</a>)
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August 30th, 2003
10:06 AM
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You lost me.
Does that mean that because of the link on the old site to the new one, the new one will get better rankings?
