Comments on: Beware the impact of changing domain names. http://www.stevekinsey.com/2007/02/19/beware-the-impact-of-changing-domain-names/ Build! Promote! Profit! Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:23:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Website Promotion, Affiliate Marketing and .Net Development Blog: » Blog Archive » Beware the Impact of Changing Domain Names – Follow Up Article http://www.stevekinsey.com/2007/02/19/beware-the-impact-of-changing-domain-names/#comment-239 Website Promotion, Affiliate Marketing and .Net Development Blog: » Blog Archive » Beware the Impact of Changing Domain Names – Follow Up Article Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:54:36 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/archives/2007/02/19/06/03/19/#comment-239 [...] A while back I posted an article of my experiences of changing domain names for a site. I basically spoke of the devastating effect the change had made to the traffic the site was receiving and it’s ranking in Google. I won’t go back into great detail here, for the whole story it’s probably best to read the original post. [...] [...] A while back I posted an article of my experiences of changing domain names for a site. I basically spoke of the devastating effect the change had made to the traffic the site was receiving and it’s ranking in Google. I won’t go back into great detail here, for the whole story it’s probably best to read the original post. [...]

]]> By: Steve Kinsey http://www.stevekinsey.com/2007/02/19/beware-the-impact-of-changing-domain-names/#comment-236 Steve Kinsey Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:31:59 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/archives/2007/02/19/06/03/19/#comment-236 It took me about five months to really finally see the pagerank change in Google. Google does an update roughly every quarter and the first quarter mine did not get updated, so when the next one came around the rank was updated. However that does not mean Google has not transferred the page rank because it is something that happens every day, it's just the counter that's updated quarterly. I would suggest that if you haven't already done so, you should register for good webmaster tools here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ then you can see what google is really doing with your site. Hope this helps. It took me about five months to really finally see the pagerank change in Google. Google does an update roughly every quarter and the first quarter mine did not get updated, so when the next one came around the rank was updated.

However that does not mean Google has not transferred the page rank because it is something that happens every day, it’s just the counter that’s updated quarterly. I would suggest that if you haven’t already done so, you should register for good webmaster tools here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/ then you can see what google is really doing with your site.

Hope this helps.

]]> By: mediaVinci http://www.stevekinsey.com/2007/02/19/beware-the-impact-of-changing-domain-names/#comment-235 mediaVinci Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:13:07 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/archives/2007/02/19/06/03/19/#comment-235 Hello, I needed to make some company internal changes. For this reason I moved my old website domain www.pixel-storefront.com to a new domain www.pixel-templates.com. My domain www.pixel-storefront.com has a Pagerank = 4. I have made the domain transfer 8 weeks ago. After 2 months, my Pagerank for www.pixel-templates.com is still = 0. I have made all the necessary 301 redirects and all other Google suggested do's and dont's. How long will it take, until the pagerank = 4 will be transfered to my new domain www.pixel-templates.com? Has anyone out there made similar experiences? Do I get punished now by Google simply because of the fact that I needed to re-structure my company and website projects? graphically & sincerely, Marc Klein mediaVinci - The art of invention Hello,
I needed to make some company internal changes. For this reason I moved my old website domain http://www.pixel-storefront.com to a new domain http://www.pixel-templates.com. My domain http://www.pixel-storefront.com has a Pagerank = 4. I have made the domain transfer 8 weeks ago. After 2 months, my Pagerank for http://www.pixel-templates.com is still = 0.
I have made all the necessary 301 redirects and all other Google suggested do’s and dont’s.
How long will it take, until the pagerank = 4 will be transfered to my new domain http://www.pixel-templates.com? Has anyone out there made similar experiences? Do I get punished now by Google simply because of the fact that I needed to re-structure my company and website projects?
graphically & sincerely,
Marc Klein
mediaVinci - The art of invention

]]> By: Steve Kinsey http://www.stevekinsey.com/2007/02/19/beware-the-impact-of-changing-domain-names/#comment-155 Steve Kinsey Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:45:27 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/archives/2007/02/19/06/03/19/#comment-155 Good lucking getting all those sub domains into DMOZ, it took a long time to get my original site in there and that was a few years ago. I did read a tip once that if you really want to get into a particular category for DMOZ, the quickest way is to offer to moderate that category for a while. Good lucking getting all those sub domains into DMOZ, it took a long time to get my original site in there and that was a few years ago. I did read a tip once that if you really want to get into a particular category for DMOZ, the quickest way is to offer to moderate that category for a while.

]]> By: Bjorn http://www.stevekinsey.com/2007/02/19/beware-the-impact-of-changing-domain-names/#comment-150 Bjorn Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:24:37 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/archives/2007/02/19/06/03/19/#comment-150 Thanks a bunch, that's comforting to know :) One of the reasons we want to do the domain name change is to get subdomains so that we get more entries in DMOZ; we've got a site which is really per-city so we'd like to be able to submit one entry for each city, but that's not possible with just one domain name. Since DMOZ is so important, I hope having many DMOZ entries will help on the total PageRank for all the sub-sites. :-/ Thanks a bunch, that’s comforting to know :)

One of the reasons we want to do the domain name change is to get subdomains so that we get more entries in DMOZ; we’ve got a site which is really per-city so we’d like to be able to submit one entry for each city, but that’s not possible with just one domain name.

Since DMOZ is so important, I hope having many DMOZ entries will help on the total PageRank for all the sub-sites. :-/

]]> By: Steve Kinsey http://www.stevekinsey.com/2007/02/19/beware-the-impact-of-changing-domain-names/#comment-148 Steve Kinsey Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:39:29 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/archives/2007/02/19/06/03/19/#comment-148 Hi Bjorn, Now the situation is much better, but it did need a lot of link building work to get it back to the old traffic levels, and only very recently has it really started to show through. The one thing that really seemed to help was getting the links changed in the DMOZ open directory. Good luck with your domain change. Hi Bjorn,

Now the situation is much better, but it did need a lot of link building work to get it back to the old traffic levels, and only very recently has it really started to show through. The one thing that really seemed to help was getting the links changed in the DMOZ open directory.

Good luck with your domain change.

]]> By: Bjorn http://www.stevekinsey.com/2007/02/19/beware-the-impact-of-changing-domain-names/#comment-147 Bjorn Sun, 22 Jul 2007 08:54:32 +0000 http://www.stevekinsey.com/archives/2007/02/19/06/03/19/#comment-147 Hi Steve, and thanks for the warning. We're contemplating making a domain name change as well, and I was curious what your situation is now, 5-6 months after you made the change? Hi Steve, and thanks for the warning. We’re contemplating making a domain name change as well, and I was curious what your situation is now, 5-6 months after you made the change?

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