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On the topic of changing links…

I received this from an advertiser…

"Hope you are well. I am wondering if you wouldn’t mind changing
some of the links in previous blog post we have written for your site, since my
client’s website has changed their URLl. I’ve attached a spread sheet which
shows the destination the blog is about, the anchor text, the new URL and the
link to the blog post. This would me greatly appreciated if you could do this
for me."

It seems the links are going to the same page, but it just seems a bit uncommon and I want to make sure I'm not getting dicked around. Any thoughts?

Hey guys,

So lets say I wanted to redirect my site to a brand new domain. Because I hate my domain name… will I loose my PR?

Fair question.

When you move things around from website to website you are in danger of losing traffic from pages that have rank built up within them. Redirects can often cause you to lose all of the work done on the site.

A 301 redirect is a safe way to tell search engines. "Hey I am still here, I just moved to a fancier neighborhood." By using a 301 you are able to keep the power of the old site by telling search engines that the content has been permanently moved. The key there is that it is "permanent". Of course it does not have to be, you just need to let the search engines know to stop looking for you someplace else and to look for you at your forwarding address. 

Most hosting services make it easy to just click a box to redirect. But in some cases they don't so I will show you here how to do it.

1. Open a new text file
2. Next you need to decide if you are going to be redirecting the entire site or just certain pages. 

• Entire Site Type: redirect 301 / http://www.newsite.com/
• Certain Pages Type: redirect 301 "/old page.htm"  http://www.newsite.com/newpage.htm

    3. Save the text file as .htaccess

    4. Upload to old site hosting.

90% of the time you will be able to do it through the domain registrar so you will not need to host the old domain at all.  A case where you would is when you might want to split a site up into several other sites and redirect different aspects to different sites.

If you end up creating your own .htaccess file it is vital that you set your FTP to ASCII and not Binary. If that does not make sense don't worry about why, just check the settings in your FTP client and make sure it is set to ASCII.

Also you will want to double check your hosting platfrom (cPanel etc) and make sure that the file is saved as .htaccess and not .htaccess.txt  That is a very common mistake people make. If it is saved as a .txt then it will not work.

It may help to understand what the code is that I wrote above so I will break it down for you. 

Redirect 301 / http://www.newsite.com/   redirect is obviously saying we are going somewhere else. 301 says it is permanent. The first / says "entire content of url". And the last part is the new address.

Redirect 301 "/old page.htm"  http://www.newsite.com/newpage.htm Everything here is the same except you will notice that there are quotation marks like this "/old page.htm"  . The quotation marks are telling the search engines that it is only part of the site that has been moved.

And that is pretty much it for 301 redirects. Good luck.

Excellent! 301 redirect here I come! I def need to start a few smaller static sites as well, that's for shizzy. Thanks AGAIN Mike :)

And sorry to be off topic everyone. But it seems my PR went down in the past week or something, I've been told it's probably just a glitch…. but anyone elses PR move?

I thought it was a total google 'no , no' to have a redirect? I tried to read another forum here about them but there was a lot of talk about PHP and Linux servers and then my brain exploded…. so after cleaning off my computer I'm back to ask, whaaaa????

I can buy another site and have it all it's traffic directed to my site? Or am I totally off the ball here… help! haha

My site has been up for almost 2 weeks and already worth $2,776!!  Alright!!  The Alexa ranking was spot on as of last night but I wish I had $5 a day in ad revenue!  Right now, I have ZERO!!

The page for my site is dated of today.

But the numbers are pretty strange. 2,400 unique visitors in January. I wish (actually, I have no idea how many I had as I started being self hosted only mid-january, but it must have been closer to 1,000).

Lucky you, a few hours ago (I'm looking for domain names too, can you tell?) I've found this:

http://valuethewebsite.com/

It tells you how much a website is worth, although I don't know how they compute this (apparently mine is worth almost $3800, I wish) but it also gives you a traffic estimator for the past few months. Although, the numbers are much higher than the ones from Analytics for my website…