Moving a WordPress Site to a New Host and Domain – WpSiteBuilding.com
I decided to move this WordPress website from the “old” subdomain located under www.hummerbie.com to a new domain and a new hosting company.
The main reason was that I am currently not so happy with the hosting provider of the main site. Recently they moved to faster servers and a better internet backbone but after moving there are some outstanding issues with other sites that run there.
The second reason is that I want to see how well Google and other search engines will pick up the 301 redirects (permanently moved page) and hold my current rankings in the search results. An other part of this SEO exercise is to see how the rankings of this site and the number of visitors are influenced by the move of a Dutch Hosting provider with servers in Amsterdam to a USA Based Hosting Company. (Geo Targeting in Search Engine Optimization)
I will write a page / post about the process on how to move a WordPress site in a couple of days after the dust settles… I already found one mayor problem that is fixed now, but I need to do some more testing and tweaking. After that I will give you a complete overview of all the pitfalls and snake holes that you should avoid in such a process and how to handle it the right way. Subscribe to the eMail or RSS updates in the right side menu to get those updates.
October 9, 2009 by Herbert-Jan van Dinther · Leave a Comment
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