Switching domains, need tips and trick?
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I currently have my sub-product hosted on a subdomain that I have, for example say it is: x.mysite.com. I plan to migrate and move this to mysite.com. I was planning to do this by having mysite.com pointing to x.mysite.com and do a 301 redirect x.mysite.com to mysite.com. Is it as simple as that? Any other consideration, tips and tricks that I should be aware of so that my SERP doesn't get messed up.
Any articles or guides on this subject matter would be highly appreciated
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Well, losing backlinks will absolutely mess with your rankings. Those links prove that you are providing content that other webmasters deem high quality.
I clicked through on your links, though, and it looks like you've already migrated everything. How did it go?
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What do you mean writing 'mysite.com pointing to x.mysite.com' ? But describe current content of mysite.com and when placing new products to mysite.com will be current back links relevant to new products?
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Hi there,
Here's a very thorough checklist for a website migration that might be helpful - http://moz.com/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos
Good luck!
Tim
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