Moving a Website to a New Domain but Keep the Page Rank

Google Page Rank is important to a lot of people, and many base their decisions around it. There is now no excuse to stay with an underperforming or useless domain name if you can move it and keep the rank.

There are many reasons why you might want to move domain names. Two have already been mentioned. Usefulness is a big factor, one that most of the webmasters out there are keen to compete on. Underperforming is something else entirely. Some domain names just work, they do. They are either perfectly descriptive, niche names or you got there before everyone else did. If you have a page that appears high on the SERP, you may put up with bad ones in order to retain the result. Well no longer do you have to.

I have tried this one myself, which is why I’m writing about it now. I moved a site from a .com domain to a .org a little over three months ago. It had a Page Rank of four before the move, and I was a little apprehensive that all my good work would have been for naught. However, the new site is now back at four, right where we started from!

So here is what I did.

Firstly, and obviously I did a 301 redirect on the old domain and pointed it to the new one. Then I pointed the new .org domain to the website directory. Within that directory I created a folder called “com-site.” The name could have been anything but the descriptive title would remind me what it was if I was having a blonde day.

Within the “com-site” directory I created a new .htaccess file in order to tell browsers, and search engines what to do. The code I used was:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.websitename.org/$1

Then I tested from every browser that typing in the old .com address it redirected to the .org one. It may have been overkill, trying each browser, but it’s a habit I got into when first starting out in web design.

Then I pointed the old domain to the “com-site” directory and tested again with each browser. It didn’t work at first, but after a couple of hours it got picked up and started working properly. My patience was tested, as I was ready to take action and undo it all, but luckily I was interrupted by some work, and by the time I went back it was working.

I then updated the sitemap.xml file to reflect the new domain name and deleted the sitemap from Google. I replaced it with a new one and sat back to wait. Approximately three months later, after many days with the Google toolbar, it showed PR4 again. Not trusting the toolbar on its own, I went to Webmaster Central, and lo and behold, I was PR4 again!

I’m sure most of you out there already know this one, but I was so pleased it worked that I just had to share.

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If you are thinking of getting involved with affiliate selling, or even if you are a little more experienced, you may feel that your huge, ugly affiliate link is getting in your way. Not only is it too long for practical use in many contexts, you are also banned from using it in many instances. Here are some incredibly simple tips for earning money through the use of redirects.

A redirected URL is set up to point to another URL. You may be able to do this through your webhost. In Godaddy, where I have all my own domain names hosted, there is a simple panel that let’s you point your domain name, or URL, to any other URL. It only takes a couple of minutes to set up.

So, let us say you are promoting a knitwear affiliate program, and you own the domain name “www.myknitwear.com”. (Not a live link!) Through your webhost, you should be able to set it up so that your domain– “www.myknitwear.com” — points to your affiliate link. The person who clicks on “www.myknitwear.com” is taken to your affiliate page. This way, you don’t have to display your huge, enormous affiliate link to the whole world, making you look more professional.

Do you see where this is going? You can have your domain point to any website you want! Now let’s explore what this flexibility gains for the affiliate marketer.

1. Are you a great writer?

If you do, you may know already that good article directories won’t let you put an affiliate link into an article. They are right, too: the whole point of an article directory is to furnish good content, not to create a platform for sales pitches. But you can still use articles to promote an affiliate product if you use a redirect.

Be absolutely certain that your top level domain (which looks like this: “www.mysite.com”, .net, .org, etc.) is completely relevant both to your niche and the article content.

Never, ever use a free hosting service. Your top domain will include the name of the hosting service. That just makes you look cheap.

2. Web forums

These are about information exchange, not affiliate selling. Blatant attempts to sell may get you booted off a forum. So, be mannerly and use a redirect when you want to take the reader to an affiliate page to tell them more about your product or niche.

Earning money through forum marketing is cheap and effective. But forums do not like you if you are too brash with your promotions, and are not willing to give as well as receive. Get it?

3. Changing horses.

Suppose you get tired of promoting a particular product, and you no longer wish to be an affiliate reseller of that product, but a different one instead. But you have your affiliate link plastered all over the web!

This is never an issue if you use a redirect at the very beginning. When it comes time to change products, you just change the “target URL” of your redirect. Your domain name will now point to the new product’s website, and the alteration is effective everywhere on the web at once. Isn’t that cool? (By the way, it makes sense to do this ONLY when you remain within the same niche.)

4. It’s time to blow your own trumpet!

Now, not only are you fed up promoting a particular affiliate product, you’ve decided to promote your own!

A redirect is a great tool here. When it is time to launch your product, and you have got your sales page up, you just switch the “target URL” of your redirect to your own sales page. The change is reflected everywhere on the web.

Now all the sales go into your pocket, and you don’t share with any other vendor.

It’s very, very cheap to purchase your own domain names. Any reputable webhost will help you search out unused, relevant domain names. You may be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to come up with good, new domain names. It just takes a little imagination.

If you are in affiliate selling, then you should know that earning money through redirects is simple, effective and flexible. A well chosen redirect can be like a good jacket that never goes out of style!

Can earning money through affiliate reselling really work for you? To find out, visit www.affiliatemarketerinfo.com today!

Server rules should work
You should be able to set what files are interpreted as php so you could do something like
mysite.com/your.name/FILENAME
If you have Linix/Unix server you can create .htaccess file to interpret .name files with this declaration
AddType application/x-httpd-php .name
Here is a tutorialhttp://www.translatum.gr/forum/index.php…
If you are on a virtual server or shared host you may or may not be able to do this
Another way to do it is as a rewrite rule:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^name/.+$ /name.php?filename=$1
for something like
mysite.com/name/FILENAME
will be taken to
mysite.com/name.php? filename=FILENAME

Déplacement d'un site vers un nouveau domaine mais garder le Page Rank Google Page Rank est important pour beaucoup de gens, et la base de beaucoup de leurs décisions autour d'elle. Il n'ya maintenant aucune excuse pour rester avec un sous-performants ou nom de domaine inutile si vous pouvez le déplacer et à maintenir le rang. Il ya plusieurs raisons pour lesquelles vous pouvez renommer les noms de domaine. Deux ont déjà été mentionnées. L'utilité est un facteur important, celui que la plupart des webmasters là-bas sont désireux de concourir sur. Sous-performant est tout autre chose. Certains noms de domaine de travail juste, ils le font. Ils sont soit parfaitement descriptive, les noms de niche ou vous y êtes arrivé avant tout le monde fait. Si vous avez une page qui semble élevé sur les SERP, vous mai mis en place avec les mauvaises, afin de conserver le résultat. Eh bien non plus le faire vous devez.

Online College Prep http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/ is a site that promises a great increase in standardized scores if only the visitor will subscribe to this $50 course!

Having a friend who in fact has subscribed to this service, I asked if I might peek over her shoulder and see for myself if online college prep.com http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/ was what it claimed to be. As I tried out the site and observed the process of preparing a child for college, I must be honest and report that this paid service in my opinion is of the same quality as many of the other college prep courses offered online for free.

Although in it's favor, online college prep.com does offer sample pages of courses for the visitor to peruse before signing up. The arithmetic sample alone http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/math/arithmetic.lasso seems to be basic enough but to me that is the problem. This is supposed to be a “college prep” course and the examples given in this section are not of the difficulty I would expect for such a course. I would be concerned that the difficulty would not stand up to true college prep expectations.

In fact with the simplicity of the questions offered and the self of accomplishment one is expected to obtain from the course, I seriously am concerned that this course will offer the user not a particularly varied and definitely skewed self confidence that might very well be the downfall when test time appears.

In my experience, testing is much harder than the examples shown on this site and for the amount paid, students can easily get the same results by reviewing class notes from several years ago. Simply said, this area in my opinion is far below the standard needed for proper college prep.

That said, other samples certainly redeem themselves and promise to be of much more difficult material and are in fact, also offered such as beginning algebra http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/math/beginning.lasso , Trigonometry http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/math/trig.lasso and pre-calculus http://www.onlinecollegeprep.com/math/precalculus.lasso as well.

At this time, I don't feel as if this program would fulfill the needs of my son or any other semi bright student for that matter. For although the material offered here is on a higher level than he is ready for at this time by the time he is ready for a real college prep course, it will be far below his and many other students needs.

I do suggest that if you are in the market for such a program, that you check out this site and see for yourself, what all it offers the casual visitor and the subscriber as well. BUT…that said, I would also encourage the reader to check out the free sites before committing to a paid site….for many free sites are of similar quality as this one and as I said…are free.