notes before website redesign or moving host
Points to note before you redesign your website or moving host...When you re-design your website, or move hosts (read more on moving hosts here), you need to follow certain rules else your visitors could receive 404 errors (page not found) and you really do not want googlebot find this error!
Ensure you:
1. Retain exiting page and folder names (including file extensions)
2. Never ever remove the old site and replace it with:
"This website is currently under redesign, back soon"
STUPID, stupid, never remove your old pages - upload your new pages over-writing the old pages.
If you follow these simple steps your existing pages will retain their page rank and traffic.
If you do need to remove a page then issue a 301 error (page moved permanently) see here how to issue such errors then googlebot and your real visitors will not receive a 404 error.
Hope that helps maintain your website page rankings for the long term
Dave.
Labels: moving host, pagerank
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