Hi Mark,

1. Yes, You have to do that in Previous website from where you want the redirection to happen.

2.  Anything whichever works best for you. But Fix one and work on it. check in google which version of your site is indexed more by "site:www.domain.com" and "site:domain.com" . Its easy to decide this way.

Note: Since its wordpress you can do it in the wordpress settings back end.

Related Thread here :

https://moz.com/community/q/changing-url-from-non-www-to-www

HI Mark,

What CMS is your Previous version of site ? Is it wordpress or using PHP.  If you find yourself in a situation where you need to redirect a PHP web page that is outside your WordPress installation, you can use a PHP redirect.

PHP redirect.

You can redirect a PHP page by adding this line of code to the header:

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: http://www.yournewwebsite.com");

?>

Note that the “301 Moved Permanently” line is necessary to advise search engines that you are using a 301 redirection. You also need to ensure that this code is placed at the top of the page to ensure the redirection works correctly.

If you would like to use redirection within a theme or plugin you are developing, you can use the WordPress wp_redirect function.

Redirect a Page Using a WordPress Plugin:

One easy solution is Quick Page/Post Redirect Plugin. The plugin allows you to perform 301, 302, 307, or meta refresh redirects. Redirection is a another great plugin that features 404 page monitoring. It will show you exactly what pages are generating 404 page errors and allow you to create 301, 302, and 307 redirects, for each of those links.

HI Kevin,

I also agree with what John said above. " depends on how you set up the .com."

In summary, there are no TLDs ( Top Level Domain .com. .org etc ) that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs ( Like yours ) that Google will default to a specific country and use that as an indicator that the website is more important in a specific geographic region. But all TLDs are treated equally.

Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/googles-handling-of-new-top-level.html

If you think your ranking is due to .com? then you need have clear competitors analysis metrics before switching from .com to .com.au . But For sure it will have impact.

Thanks Donford, Its been already 5 days since I moved the site . My question is when  other pages come in search why not home page alone ?

HI All,  My site was ranking very well and was in 1st page of google for most of my keywords. Last week we did some update to the site and moved it to new hosting and from then onwards I dont see my site home page in Google ranking . My Website Name is : royalevents.com.au. We used to be in 1st of Google for keywords like wedding Mandaps, Indian Wedding Mandaps etc,

Would be great if some one helps us to figure out whats gone wrong .. I also did Webmaster Fetch as Google but nothing happened. Thanks

HI Kevin,

I also agree with what John said above. " depends on how you set up the .com."

In summary, there are no TLDs ( Top Level Domain .com. .org etc ) that Google finds preferential to others; they are all treated equally in rankings. There are some geo-specific TLDs ( Like yours ) that Google will default to a specific country and use that as an indicator that the website is more important in a specific geographic region. But all TLDs are treated equally.

Ref: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/googles-handling-of-new-top-level.html

If you think your ranking is due to .com? then you need have clear competitors analysis metrics before switching from .com to .com.au . But For sure it will have impact.

Hi Mark,

1. Yes, You have to do that in Previous website from where you want the redirection to happen.

2.  Anything whichever works best for you. But Fix one and work on it. check in google which version of your site is indexed more by "site:www.domain.com" and "site:domain.com" . Its easy to decide this way.

Note: Since its wordpress you can do it in the wordpress settings back end.

Related Thread here :

https://moz.com/community/q/changing-url-from-non-www-to-www