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Hi Yanez Jarno basically explained it. You have a few options though - what is the site created with? Basically you can either; Create the new site in a subfolder with the same URLs - and then move it to the root folder to replace the old site. If ALL URLs stay the same, no redirects are needed. OR, you can create the new site with entirely new URLs in the root (minus the index page, which you keep a different name in the meantime) and then when ready, you switch out the index page, which becomes the new homepage - and put in redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs all at once. But to get into more specifics, it does depend how you are creating the site (HTML, wordpress, drupal?) to give more details. -Dan

Hi Yanez, I have some concerns about the dynamic scenario and how it relates to Local Search. I actually spoke about this with Darren Shaw of WhiteSpark and he gave me permission to quote him on this: If set up properly, I think it can be fine for the search engines: BAD: domain.com/locations.php > detects IP and loads the location info into the page. OK: domain.com/locations.php > detects IP and 301 redirects to the correct location page like /denver.php. It's ok, as long as there is a crawlable list of all location pages on the site. BEST: domain.com/locations.php > detects googlebot, and if not googlebot, detects IP and 301 redirects to the correct location page like /denver.php. It's ok, as long as there is a crawlable list of all location pages on the site. This could be called cloaking, but it's actually not a concern to the engines. There are tons of examples of sites using cloaking for good, not evil, and Google is fine with it. Google has no problem with cloaking when it benefits the user and isn't used to serve different content to the engines that a user would never see. Hope this helps! Miriam