As you may well know I moved David Naylor to a new server, this is what I did and what happened..
old IP address I put up a 500 server error page and changed the dns.
Google picked up straight away and started indexing the new site, side effect I lost my google Cache ( missing for 6 days)
To be honest I thought google would have fucked it up for me, I was wrong they handled the move really really well, the 301 handling has been top notch and we have doubled our traffic .. go figure hey.. just look at the site structure know it’s totally different and google followed every rule.
RewriteRule ^archives/.*$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^\d{4}/\d{2}(/\d{2})?/?$ / [R=301,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
Customize Permalink Structure
It's custom [code]/%postname%.html[/code]
Wordpress Plugins
I'm now running Seo titles
stumbleupon and digg plugins ( we hacked them a bit )
also have Bronco ad's and Bronco shout box... in-house, we will be running hoodoo at some time in the future also and we will be running a new bespoke advertising system .. shhh
DaveN
11 Comments
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nah you should be Fine
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Dave do you prefer not having the category in the permalink structure or did you leave it out because of the limited ability to control which category is used in the URL?
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Cheers Dave
greatly appreciate the reply - 5
Excuse me for being thick, so you just redirected all your old pages into your root and let Google re-crawl the new link structure, yeah? No page-to-page mapping?
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no Richard, we redirect on the Slug Id as well
DaveN
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Dave, Great post mate – been meaning to do this for a while myself… so this morning i did!
Did an idiots guide on it at my blog too - 9
Hi Dave!
Does it make much difference if you use /%postname% or /%postname%.html ??
Basically what I’m getting at is: is /name or /name/ or /name.html better and why?Thanks.
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Aha, couldn’t see that from the redirects you mentioned.
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Dave
my hosting company is upgrading and one of my sites, unique IP, is going to get a new one – do you think this is something to be concerned about.
It seems it takes nothing to fall over in Google nowadays !