What will happen if I change domain address?

Adrianhenry

Member
Hey guys, I have a blog that created using weebly like this example.weebly. com

and after 2 month, I purchased a new domain name as example.com (for example).

If I change domain to my new domain and move all the posts to it then will that affect on website ranking? number of visitors? audience or something else? what should I do to keep the same status as old site?

Thanks in advance
 

elcidofaguy

Active Member
As its only 2 months I would be tempted to just go ahead and move all of the posts and delete the old site... However as you are concerned about preserving link juice gained then there are a couple of things you can do:

1) Place a redirect on each of your weebly pages. Having looked online you cannot do it with using htaccess hence place this code within the header tags:

Code:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.yournewwebsite.com/">

2) You also should place a canonical tag on your weebly page pointing to the new domain page e.g.

Code:
<link rel="canonical" href="www.yournewwebsite.com/blog/postname" />

Hope that helps!
 

Adrianhenry

Member
As its only 2 months I would be tempted to just go ahead and move all of the posts and delete the old site... However as you are concerned about preserving link juice gained then there are a couple of things you can do:

1) Place a redirect on each of your weebly pages. Having looked online you cannot do it with using htaccess hence place this code within the header tags:

Code:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://www.yournewwebsite.com/">

Hope that helps!

Can I use other methods to redirect all old ULRs to new URLs?

Not only that site I have some blogs that has hundreds to thousands of URLs and I could need to move them.
 
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