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It is mission critical that I have no down time, and that I do not lose my current ranking with Google.
I want to make sure that when someone clicks on my link when they search that they get sent to my site.
Any hints , suggestions?
Bruce
[edited by: Woz at 6:41 am (utc) on Dec. 27, 2003]
[edit reason] No Specifics Please, see TOS#13 [/edit]
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> It is mission critical that I have no down time, and that I do not lose my current ranking with Google.
No guarantees are possible -- your PR might slip for a month, just depending on when you move and when Google spiders. However, I assume you're not changing your domain name, so impact should be minimal.
It will be critical that you maintain the old site online until you see that the major SEs are spidering your site at its new IP address. Once you are satisifed that they have indexed your updated pages (and in Google's case, that it has also cached them solidly for a couple of weeks), you can take the site off the old server.
In order: Put site up and test (via IP address) on new server, put new DNS entries on DNS servers, await DNS propagation, see SE spiders in logs, see updated pages solid in the SERPS (and cached) for two weeks, decommission old server.
Jim
