{"id":2005,"date":"2014-10-14T16:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2014-12-29T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T11:39:05","slug":"site-move-tool-updated-in-webmaster-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/site-move-tool-updated-in-webmaster-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"site-move tool updated in webmaster tools"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google recently launched site-move tool to help webmaster move from their site from one domain to another domain. Moving a site from one domain to another domain is the most tedious and risky process. Many webmasters make mistakes when moving domain names. Most of them odn’t know how to setup the right redirect. Some of them use meta refresh, javascript redirect, simple server side redirect ( 302 redirect ) etc. All these listed redirects are not good for search engines. When you are doing a move especially moves like domain to domain which is mostly permanent it is important we use a 301 redirect. 301 redirect tells the search engines that the site has moved permanently from one domain to the other.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"site-move-tool\"<\/a><\/p>\n

If you want to do a safe move Google webmaster tools is helping you do it. Log-in to webmaster and go to this page<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.google.com\/webmasters\/tools\/change-address<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Google has given this list of simple checklist when moving site from one URL to other.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1<\/td>\n\n
Pick your new site from the list<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
If you don’t see your site, add it now. You must specify only root-level domains with no trailing path (e.g. https:\/\/www.example.com\/).<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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2<\/span><\/td>\n\n
Confirm that 301-redirects work properly<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
URLs from your old site should be redirected to your new site using permanent 301-redirect directives.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/span><\/td>\n\n
Check that verification methods are still present<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
This step ensures your new and old sites are properly verified before the move, and will remain so afterwards.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/span><\/td>\n\n
Submit the change of address request<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Transition your site indexing from www.example.com<\/span> to your new site<\/span>.<\/span><\/div>\n
\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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Google recently launched site-move tool to help webmaster move from their site from one domain to another domain. Moving a site from one domain to another domain is the most tedious and risky process. Many webmasters make mistakes when moving domain names. Most of them odn’t know how to setup the right redirect. Some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-webmaster-tools","category-webmaster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.searchenginegenie.com\/blog-seo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}