Changing my domain name

[Deelip]

Hi,

I am changing my domain name and my old domain is 2 yrs old. For tranferring the value of our old domain, I am using 301 permanent redirection page wise. Apart from that I am also requesting other webmaster to point our new website. Can anybody tell me apart from this what all I can do to save my ranking position in major search engines.

Thanks,

[BuckfastMonk]

Just to add that you must Wait until google finds your new domain before removing the old one. This is VERY important

[beu]

Originally Posted by BuckfastMonk

Just to add that you must Wait until google finds your new domain before removing the old one. This is VERY important

Great point BuckfastMonk, be sure to leave both IPs active until DNS has fully resolved. You don't want "Error" pages indexed!

[RichD]

Once you set up all of your 301 redirects, you can submit a xml sitemap for the old domain so that the engines will crawl the old url's again and pick up those 301 redirects even faster.