Friday, June 20, 2014

Google Updates Site Move Guidelines

If you have ever had to move a website, maybe you have been faced with the fear that Google might not discover that the website is new. It will face many issues in the search results until they manage to figure out what happened.
In the issue of moving sites, Google has amended their instructions to help webmasters. It is also including concerns that might arise due to moving a site to responsive design.
And it has amended information to include moving a site without changing URL, for example if you were to go to another hosting provider that was able to maintain the old URLs together. Or else when it comes to moving a site that has entirely new URLs then Google goes into quite a bit of detail on how webmasters should record old URLs to new. Here remember the things to fix any stragglers that someway get forgotten in the transition.
If you have a website that serves various URLs for mobile users in opposition to desktop users and also remember that Google has new smartphone proposals for webmasters that specify exactly how to face these kinds of situations. It is also helpful to know the benefits of using responsive design to reduce these problems.
In Google Webmaster Tools, when you move your site then you have to use Google's change of address tool. You need to have both old and new sites, domains will be verified.

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