Help with changing of website URL

Amateur · #1 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008, 10:20 AM

Hi all,

Wonder if someone could help me. Let me explain my situation.

I have a client with a website and a domain name - http://www.aaaaa.com

The client has changed their business name and therefore has purchased a new domain name - http://www.bbbbb.com

So what I want to achieve is:

http://www.bbbbb.com now points at the website
http://www.aaaaa.com takes a visitor to the website but http://www.bbbbb.com being the url in the url bar
And, if a visitor has bookmarked a page such as http://www.aaaaa.com, when they click their bookmark, it will take them to http://www.bbbbb.com

I would like this to be achieved without effecting the SEO of the website.

*URL's above are only for illustration, not the actual websites.

Could someone please assist me with this?

Thanks in advance.

louie · #2 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008, 10:38 AM

Have a look into 301 permanent redirect.
If the new website has the same URL as the old one, you can code the header to redirect to the new domain, but exactly to the same page

PHP Code:

  //old url = http://www.aaa.com/xxx_1.html
header("Location: http://www.bbb.com/xxx_1.html" , true, 301);
exit();

hope this help

Amateur · #3 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008, 10:51 AM

Thanks for your assistance.

Yes the domain names are different.

Unfortunately the site is not php but a ASP.NET site. Is there another approach I could take?

paul · #4 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008, 10:53 AM

if it's a big website, it might be better to move it in pieces... but a 301 redirect should do the job. Obviously you should keep the old domain for as long as possible too.

EDIT : ASP : http://www.seoconsultants.com/tips/asp/301.asp

Amateur · #5 (**permalink**) 07-07-2008, 02:38 PM

Thanks for your help Paul.

I will look to include a 301 redirect on entry point to site and change URL's based on such.

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