Search Engine Optimization Eblog

How to make changings urls easy. Well the best way is to completely avoid free hosting services. Hosting costs are cheaper than ever. Who doesn't have 7 bucks to donate to a hobby site a month now-a-days? Ok ok to the tip... 1. Buy your new url, put up a temporary home page with some good content on it. 2. Point links to the new url from your current domain, blogs, directories and link partners. The more the better. 3. Wait for about 6 months. This will give the search engines time to take notice of the site and give it a page score or PageRank. 4. Make the transfer, and put up 301 redirects from your old urls to your new urls. If you are on a shared host that can't do a 301, use a

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL=http://www.newurl.com/...">

Letting your new domain sit for 6 months and gain reputation with the engines will help you the most. There is a down time when you kill your old site and move everything to the new site. Even with 301 or meta refreshes pointing the way to the new urls it's not a magic wand for an instant new domain take over. Your new urls will have to start from scratch. The 6 months just decreases the down time you'll notice in the search engines.