Call 0403 936 678Today I received an email from an operator who attended our E-maketing workshop in Victoria last year and they had a great question that I should share with you…
“I am having a new website built in WordPress and I want to know if I will loose my rankings in Google when I change my website page names and hosting provider”.
The answer is: if search engines have indexed your website pages and the URL for the page changes you need to set up redirects from the old URL to the new URL.
301 redirects is the best way to help Google and other search engines understand that you moved pages. These redirects should be set up when you move your existing web site to your new web site.
Set up redirects in advance so that all goes according to plan and no 404 errors are found.
To find out which pages of your website Google has possibly indexed do a Google search for the following site:insertyourdomainhere
eg site:beakoala.com.au
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There is nothing to worry about. As you said as long as there is a redirect, nothing will be lost.
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