How to Change Your Primary Domain Name
A primary domain is the one attached to your website. This is the domain you use to access the site like redmantech.com is attached to the redman website. You can change this at anytime.
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How a Domain Change Affects Your SEO
If we think about our domain as our website’s home, when we change domains, it is like moving to a different home. All of the connections and friends you have made from your old home, are now lost and you have to start all over again in this new home in your new city.
The SEO you have built with your website up to this point is associated to your domain. Now search engines don’t know where to look to find you, they keep looking at your old domain and don’t see anything there anymore. Eventually, they will find your new domain and website, but it will take awhile and building SEO is a long process.
How to Save Some SEO
If you would like to move forward with this change, you can save some of your SEO by creating 301 redirects for each page. This is like putting a teleportation pad over where you used to live that transports people to where you live now. 301’s will redirect both users and search engine bots from the old domain page to your new domain page. This can help search engine’s realize that your website has relocated and will save you a bit of SEO.
Because you are still redirecting for one site to a new one, you will still lose some SEO as the information transfer isn’t 100%. If we stick with the teleportation pad analogy…. have you ever watched The Fly? Teleportation isn’t 100%
How To Change Your Primary Domain Name
To change your primary domain name, first, update your DNS records on your domain. You will want to update your new domain’s A records to:
Record Type: A Record
Host: @ or blank
Target: 174.129.209.50
TTL: 30 min
Record Type: A Record
Host: www
Target: 174.129.209.50
TTL: 30 min
If you have a blog for your redman website, you will also want to add a CNAME Record:
Record Type: CNAME Record
Host: blog
Target: blogs.redmantech.com
TTL: 30 min
If you have email associated with the new domain, you will want to add the MX Records for your email provider. You can find the MX Records using an online lookup tool like MXToolbox
Next, let our support team know you are looking to make the update, they will have to update some things on your account. Alternately, you can ask our team to update this information on your behalf but it will be subject to a support fee. Contact our Sales Team for more information.