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    • nutjobshell
      nutjobshell last edited by

      Hi everyone,

      I have a site, which I have re-built on a temporary domain, so that my main ecommerce site can still run..  I have noticed that google has already crawled my temporary domain. The only problem is I now want to transfer the new site back onto its proper domain (www.ourbrand.com).  I have changed some of the URL structures of the new site so realize I will need to do re-directs relating to the same domain, but will google get confused that another domain used to have my new website on?

      I don't plan on using the old temporary domain again and wondered if I need to tell google in some way it was used just to build my site on?

      Michelle

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      • Francisco_Meza
        Francisco_Meza last edited by

        Once you do the transfer, robot.txt the old temporary domain.

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        • AgentsofValue
          AgentsofValue last edited by

          Hi Michelle!

          Here are the steps on how tell Google when your site had moved:

          http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83106

          Just follow the steps there and you'll be fine.

          Cheers!

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