A Changeover Web Hosting – Moving That New Url With It
Analytics or logging tools for your Web server will often provide you information about which sources refer visitors to your site. After changing your URL, it’s a good idea to revisit those site to make sure they’re not still showing the previous URL. If they still are, try e-mailing the webmaster and telling him/her to change the URL.
If your URL has been submitted to online directories, you’ll have to update each of them individually. To update links to your site, use a major search engine to find links to your old URL, and manually change each one.
If they are, you can write the webmaster and request that he make your URL information current. If you have submitted your URL to online directories in the past, it will be necessary to return to each and update them. Search the major engines and look for links to your previous URL and manually return to each one to do an update.
It isn’t just enough to ask external sites to update your URL; you’ll also want a redirect page on the old URL leading to the new site. This page could be as simple as a link to your new URL that visitors can click to go there. There’s a downside to this, though; a lot of Internet browsers don’t follow links.
Not only having to bring your URL up to date on the websites of third parties, it is obvious that you will still want to place a page for redirection to direct your visitors to your new site. This could be a page that simply provides a link to the new website, asking guests to click and visit the new link. Alot of users of the Internet will not take the time to follow links, which is this approach’s dilemma. If your site is not instantly visible, they may just push the back button and go to another website.
Stephen Grisham, Sr. is a copy writer for InfoServe Media, LLC. If you are looking for a web design is where to look. If you just need periodic updates to an existing site, InfoServe Media also offers website maintenance.