Moving to a new server

How do i do it without upsetting google?

[netnerd]

I have a site which maked about 500 pounds a day. I need to move it as it is presently on a free domain server and i need more reliablity and stats.

How do i move it without the risk of upsetting google?

I dont have access to cgi or htaccess files, just the wwwroot folder.

Help!

[panos]

Hello netnerd, take a look at this thread:

[webmasterworld.com...]

[Gonzalez]

Hi,

If you can't do a 301 Moved Permanent redirect, put a link to your new site. You know, the "This page has moved here" thing.

[netnerd]

Gonzalez - the new site will have the same name

[Gonzalez]

Ooops,

Sorry, just misundestood.

But I remember once I had a similar situation. I moved a domain to a new hosting company. I changed the DNS to the new hosting company at the registar and 2-3 days after that all the Internet was seeing my site at the new host, but the old company did not change the pointers to my site on their DNS server (because I think they assumed that if the domain was on their servers, they did not have to get info through regular DNS propagation). I don't know if this happens all the time, but if it does then:

1) If Google knows your new location, everythig is ok
2) If Google knows your old location, everything should be Ok too because you leave the site "live".

I repeat: I don'k know if this happens all the time, it happened to me once. It would be useful if someone puts further commnets.