Comments on: Update On Domain Move

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:33:00 +0000

Not trivial at all. Moving itself isn’t too hard like you say. For me it was that trying to be a perfectionist thing. I tested and played around with a lot of different plugins and experimented a lot with the design.

I also made things difficult for myself by changing the permalinks structure so the redirection wasn’t a few quick lines. I ended up mapping posts one to one. I also ran through all the old posts to change the code on the links. All the links are absolute and it seemed silly to have them pointing back to the old site and then redirect them back here. Not hard work, but tedious and time consuming.

And then of course I decided to change the permalinks a little again and had to go through the posts one more time.

Search wise I expect to take a temporary hit in traffic while the engines catch up with all the redirection, but I think I covered all the bases and expect it to be temporary.

By: Rudy Lopes

Rudy Lopes — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:56:29 +0000

Moving domains is not a trivial undertaking, so kudos for pulling it off. The actual move never seems to take very long, with the lion’s share of time spent in one of two ways:
1. Planning what you’ll do and when to do it;
2. Scrambling around to fix stuff because you didn’t do #1.

SEO adds a wrinkle, of course, as you don’t want to lose any search power old pages have garnered when you move them.

Again, kudos on the done deed.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 23:48:07 +0000

Thanks Dave. I think it went well for the most part, though I’m expecting a few things to crop up over the next week or two. It’s inevitable isn’t it.

Hopefully I caught all the major things.

By: Dave Davis

Dave Davis — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:38:57 +0000

Looks like all went well. Congrats Steven. I’ll let you know if I spot anything unusual.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:41:49 +0000

Very close. Feeling a little nervous about the change, but even more excited about it. Keep those fingers crossed.

By: Kristine Shreve

Kristine Shreve — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:12:28 +0000

Wow, almost there! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that all goes smoothly on Friday.