Transfer old domain to new domain name

[rsadik]

Dear All,

Could anyone shed some light to me, as how to proceed with the following issue:
I have a current website live online since december, 2008. I recently purchase a new domain name for this same website. How can I make the transfer to the new domain name, without recreating a new website & re-submitting it to search engines for optimization?
Any advice will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

[Luwana]

You have a couple options I just posted this about redirects - hopefully someone will answer But for some basic info there is a lot on htaccess, 301 redirects, and domain forwarding in the IT formums - I can't post a link yet, but it's in the

web-programming-discussion-forum under
82538-redirect-options-uhg

Best - Luwana

[morestar]

Originally Posted by rsadik

Dear All,

Could anyone shed some light to me, as how to proceed with the following issue:
I have a current website live online since december, 2008. I recently purchase a new domain name for this same website. How can I make the transfer to the new domain name, without recreating a new website & re-submitting it to search engines for optimization?
Any advice will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

OK so you registered a new domain and would like to make this new domain your main one correct? and with that, pass along the old domains accrued value to the new one as well?

[rsadik]

Dear Morestar,

That's correct.
Any suggestions.

Thx.

[morestar]

Hm, I'm not too sure here. At the moment I can only think of really having to go through the whole process again, namely to upload all your site files to the new domain and in the end write 301 redirects from all your old pages to your new ones.

Are you going to be keeping the old domain? I know how you feel, I've gone through this where I've registered a new domain and want to use that instead of an existing one...