What needs to be done to tell google my site has moved /changed
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Hi everyone,
I have a site, which I have re-built on a temporary domain, so that my main ecommerce site can still run.. I have noticed that google has already crawled my temporary domain. The only problem is I now want to transfer the new site back onto its proper domain (www.ourbrand.com). I have changed some of the URL structures of the new site so realize I will need to do re-directs relating to the same domain, but will google get confused that another domain used to have my new website on?
I don't plan on using the old temporary domain again and wondered if I need to tell google in some way it was used just to build my site on?
Michelle
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Hi Michelle!
Here are the steps on how tell Google when your site had moved:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83106
Just follow the steps there and you'll be fine.
Cheers!
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Once you do the transfer, robot.txt the old temporary domain.
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