Displaying desired domain in search engines

[escteam]

Last year I registered a hosting and domain account for Mummyzboy.tv.

Then we added Mummyzboy.com domain to the account.

Then the client wanted the .com to be the main domain so we:

• Made the .com become primary domain for the hosting account.

• Changed the webmastertool account url to the .com

• Changed all .tv for .com in the sitemap and re-submit it.

It's been a month now since the last mods and over a year the the primary domain was change but Google still displays Mummyzboy.tv in his results, any tips?

[escteam]

Thank you, I followed the article's instructions, will post back once the changes take effect.

[AdamThompson]

You want to redirect the entire domain. See "Redirect Old domain to New domain using htaccess redirect" at http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

[escteam]

Thx, this seams to be the way to go, I am the webmaster/programmer of the site but I am also new to some aspect of it like Htaccess, cannonical url and such.

So should the index file be 301'd to the main domain simply or is there many url format to redirect? I did:

redirect 301 /index.html http://www.mummyzboy.com/index.html

Is this enought or do I need to add a combinasion of www/non-www/every possible parameters ?

[matbennett]

Most importantly, both domains are still serving the content. In fact they appear to be serving it with and without the www. as well, which isn't ideal.

You need to make sure that the old domain does a 301 redirect to the new one.  Your webmaster can probably sort this out for you in minutes by editing the .htaccess file.

That will make sure that people are always redirected to the correct domain. It will also ensure that google is always redirected to the correct domain. Additionally, the equity passed from links pointing to the old domain will also be passed to the new one.

It's a very easy fix and will probably sort out the issue for you and bring a few additional benefits very quickly.