Re: [SLUG] cname domain redirection Q

[Jeremy Visser <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 00:16 +0000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On Feb 5, 2008 3:14 AM, Jeremy Visser <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Yep, as Alex suggested, a HTTP redirect is what you need.
> 
> On top of the technical stuff covered by Alex and Jeremy, I'd suggest
> considering adding a page for those you arrive through the old domain
> name suggesting that they'll update their bookmarks or the page they
> arrived through to record the new domain name, because once the old
> .org.au domain DNS record is gone they'll reach either a black hole or
> maybe worse - another web site altogether.

But if you do a 301 redirect properly, Google will pick up your domain
change _really_ fast. Google doesn't know that your domain has changed
if you just put up a normal HTML file, thus you'll have stale search
results in the index.

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