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I've changed the domain name of my site

Posted 07-15-2013 at 05:53 AM by Pyplate

I was using a free domain name supplied by noip.com, the dynamic DNS provider that I use. This looked unprofessional, and it was hurting my search engine ranking.

I bought a new domain name, and instead of using a dynamic DNS service, I just pointed it to my external IP. My ISP is known for hardly ever changing people's IP address. It's a risk to not use a dynamic DNS service, but I think it's a small risk.

My site currently uses a CMS that I've written myself. I use .htaccess files to do URL translation, so I added a couple of lines to my htaccess file:

Code:
# rewrite rules for 301 redirect
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^myraspberrypi.no-ip.biz/*$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://raspberrywebserver.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Now, when people visit my old domain name, they're redirected to the new one. They see the same site, just at a new domain name.

I created a new web property in Google analytics, and put the new tracking code in my site template's head section. I created a new site in webmaster tools, and re-verified it with the new Google analytics code. I changed the URLs in my sitemap.xml, and submitted it in webmaster tools.
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