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« on: July 22, 2003, 10:38:32 AM »
Hello,

I'm planning to move my web site from another host to my Lunarpages account.  I want to make sure that if any search engine spiders hit my site during the move that they will be directed to the same page on the new site.  During the transition, I am planning to use 301 redirects in .htaccess on the old site to direct people to the new site.

However, while the DNS is propogating, I don't want spiders to not be able to find the new site just because that spider can't see the DNS update yet.  So I'm thinking the best thing to do is put the IP address in the redirect, like so:

Code:
redirect 301 somepage.htm http://111.111.111.111/somepage.htm


Does anyone have an opinion on whether this is a good technique? I  am concerned about a search engine losing track of my domain name, but I suppose if that happened the spider would catch on to what's happened once the DNS changes are fully propagated.  Does that sound right?

Also, if the new domain on lunarpages is an addon domain, how do I find out the IP address to the addon domain.  I can't find a place in CPanel that reveals it to me.  I can't ping it because the DNS has not been pointed to lunarpages yet.  Assuming I can get the IP address for my addon domain, can I assume that this is my permanent IP address for this domain, even after the DNS has been pointed at lunarpages?

Thanks,
Dan
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stephan
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« Reply #1 on: July 23, 2003, 03:55:44 PM »
Hello,

I can't be sure what the search engines would think of this, as the exact methods they use are specific to each one, and pretty complicated.

However, you would need a dedicated IP address from us for this to work.

If I were you, I would probably make it redirect to the temporary url.

Any negative effects, if any, caused by the changeover should be temporary in the search engines.

It's a complicated subject...
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« Reply #2 on: July 23, 2003, 05:41:16 PM »
Thanks, Stephan.  My primary concern is losing my ranking in Google.  I'll take your advice and use the temporary url.

Dan
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