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I know the basic theory is to wait right after a main update, and switch all your links as quickly as possible, but I'm trying to get the new site's main page into the index from day one with some pagerank, while at the same time, getting "free" traffic from the high rankings I enjoy from the old site and neither the old or new site being penalized..... sounds tricky, right? ;) Every month I'm out is litterally thousands of dollars down the drain......
So this is my strategy from what I've read here......
1. For MYNEWSITE.COM, I’ll get some high pagerank links from sites (HIGHPAGERANK.COM), even though MYOLDSITE.COM is still live and not switched yet.
2. I will put noindex/nofollow in the robots.txt file for MYNEWSITE.COM so it doesn’t penalize MYOLDSITE.COM (so MYOLDSITE.COM will be included in the next major update).
3. This way, the links show up in the cache of HIGHPAGERANK.COM ready for the next major deep crawl.
4. Immediately after the main monthly update, I will change the robots.txt file on both of my domains and reverse them, so it crawls/indexes the new one and not the old one.
5. Then I’ll do a 301 redirect from MYOLDSITE.COM so I will get all of that month’s traffic “free” even thought the other site is not indexed yet, but hopefully being fully crawled.
6. All the while I’ll be trying to get everyone to change links like a mad exodus :)
7. Hopefully if all goes as planned, right after the main update from day 1, MYNEWSITE.COM's main page (that is linked from HIGHPAGERANKSITE.COM) will have some decent PR and be included in the index, and the deep crawl is commencing on the new site so that the entire site is included again for the next update.
8. After the following update, everything will be switched with no penalization and hopefully I retain all my old rankings.
That sound good? Am I making any bad assumptions, particularly with the timing of the crawling with respect to the changing of the robots.txt files on both sites?
Thanks.
Or in shorter terms: move to new site/ip, wait for dns to update, nuke old ip/site with a redirect to new ip/site.
;) man I love how Brett makes things sound so simple... ditto.
...but I probably would have use 48 more words to say the same thing.
So you think I am over-killing this? I'm just trying to maximize my time in the google update with the old site and minimize my wait time to get the new site in......
I guess there is no real optimal way.
Googlebot pretty efficient - no worries.
