Changing URLs today

It is the big day

[ganderla]

I am ready to change my URL today, the new site is set up and ready. I need to do a perm 301, but all the files are .html now and were .shtml

So if someone goes to www.myoldsite.com/neat_file.shtml

with this in my .htaccess on my old site

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule .* ht*tp://www.mynewsite.com/ [R=301,L]
(star only there for linking)

the should be redirected to *http://www.mynewsite.com

Have I covered everything?
Thank you

[ganderla]

Or, I could set up a perm 301 on each page of the old site to correspond to the new site. Would this be better?

[ganderla]

bump, anyone?

[nakulgoyal]

I think it should work!

[ganderla]

Thank you, it seems to be working fine, except I want the SE's to find me and index me faster.

[closed]

If the only difference between the pages in your old site and your new site is the use of a different file extension, this would probably work better for you:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteRule (.*)\.shtml$ ht*tp://www.mynewsite.com/$1.html [R=301,L]

That way, they're redirected to the equivalent page on the new site instead of being dropped off at your new site's main page.

If you want the robots to find you faster, you should work on getting links to your new site.

[ganderla]

Thank you, I have gotten quite a few PR5&6 links already to the new site. It should not be too long.

[ganderla]

Thanks again Closed,

I just made the change to my htaccess and it words great!

[closed]

You're welcome, ganderla. Glad it worked!

[ganderla]

Thanks all for the advise, GBot has already indexed my entire site and I did not lose any positions in the SERPS, I gained a few. I think I heard somewhere that ink bot does not follow 301's though.