How will a domain change affect my rankings?
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My company will undergo a domain change in the next few months. Other than implementing 301 redirects, what else can I do to help the search engines realize the site has moved? What kind of impact on rankings can I expect to see? Thanks in advance!
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http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83105
Check this ->
Use the Change of Address tool in Webmaster Tools to notify Google of your site's move. (Note: To use the Change of Address tool, you must be a verified owner of both the new and the old sites.)
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what do you mean by "Google webmaster move domain"?
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Also as i moved the domain i learned it takes between 1-3 months for the new domain to receive all the value from google.
Also did not mention of course a must is the Google webmaster move domain.
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apart from domain 301 which is usual. You can redirect page by page domain-a.com/pagename to domain-b.com/pagename
This would help those pages get listed within 1 day. Did it yesterday and today i got 38 links on the new site. I did however tweet and add the new domain on twitter.
Hope this helps.
FACT:
Personally i moved a shop with 2000 pages indexed ... yesterday and today i have 38 pages already indexed
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