google placement after name change?

[Aplusmedia]

Heya all,

i have a question im not sure about, but know is common knowledge to you guys.

Here's my scenario, I have a website that is ranked 2nd place in google, it took quite a while to get there, but now I want to change to a new name and new domain, the new domain and name would certainly require a fresh start in google, but what if I simply forward my old site to the new site, will the ranking be passed onto my new site? no? both domains will appear as 1...

im not sure what will happen, I like my current ranking so I dont want to lose it by changing domain name.. are there any workarounds?

Thanks in advance!

 

[MrDude]

301 Redirect all files
eg: redirect index.html to new.com/index.html
and page2.html new.com/page2.html

 

[Steen]

MrDude sounds about right. Check WebmasterWorld for extensive coverage of this.

 

[harleyx]

Last time I did this, my main rankings (for which I was #1 solidly) did transfer with 301 redirects. However, I needed to change the content to optimize for different keyword variations and eventually those specific rankings disappeared - but that was to be expected.

 

[Aplusmedia]

thanks guys,

what about domain name pointing? like, olddomain.com points to newdomain.com ? just like how www.photoshoplover.com points to www.pslover.com (for example). they both seem like 1 single site..

 

[March2005]

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34464

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34437