Comments on: Domain Registration Cape Cod Upholstery

By: Joe Gramm

Joe Gramm — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:31:23 +0000

It’s an honor to hear from you “capecoddaily.com.” Thanks for all the great tips. I’m excited because I’ve done much of what you said. I’m really just a web site hacker using Apple iWeb. I basically copy and pasted one site to the other spending a lot of time updating links. I heard on the Apple Discussion Boards and Google Webmaster Forum to preserve the links as best as possible. The Google Webmasters Forum also pointed me towards the htaccess file redirect. I’m going to email you the code because my web Host service did the code and it seems to work well. But after I read your comment I went back and looked at the code. The 301 redirect, directs from one page in the old site to one page in the new site. The Webmasters Forum advised that I redirect as many individual pages as possible. That’s why it would be awesome for you to check it for me. Lastly, I’ve got several links pointing to the new site already like Google Local, Merchant Circle etc. Again Thanks for the suggestions and help and mostly for reading my blog.

By: Cape Cod Daily

Cape Cod Daily — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:41:23 +0000

That is a good domain name. Smart idea to plan ahead. That way the business doesn’t have to be attached to yourname.com when you sell it.

As far as the search engines go: Move all the content over to the new domain, but try to preserve the site structure and filenames. (which it looks like you did)

Then set up the hosting for yourname.com to issue a 301 redirect to the new domain until Google indexes the new site. You should use an .htaccess file with a set of redirect rules on your old site to do it the right way. I can send you the code to accomplish this if you have access to it. (email me)

It should show up where your old one did, plus a bonus for an exact match domain name. (for the search “Cape Cod Upholstery” anyway) To get this to happen faster, get a few new links to the new domain name. Good luck!

By: Joe Gramm

Joe Gramm — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:17:36 +0000

Lisa,

There’s nothing like a good blog to bring your friends and family out. I’m really excited about the change. It’s opened up the flood gates to new ideas!

By: Lisa Rimbach

Lisa Rimbach — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:19:55 +0000

Very cool Joe. Not only the name but the very official looking blog-site!

By: Joe Gramm

Joe Gramm — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:01:28 +0000

Thanks for the great comment from best friends.

By: Peg & Richard

Peg & Richard — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:27:32 +0000

Hi!
Congratulations on the great business name!
So happy the name has been found by “The Best Upholsterer on the Cape”!
Peg and Richard

By: Joe Gramm

Joe Gramm — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:37:45 +0000

Not the last, second. That’s pretty good. I’ve made the transition over to Cape Cod Upholstery. Lots of work rebuilding the new site and redirecting joegramm.com to capecodupholstery.com. Still have a ton of work updating all the links to my site and then keeping my fingers crossed that the search engines will treat the new site with high rankings. Thanks for commenting BG

By: Bill Gramm

Bill Gramm — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:55:46 +0000

What, and I’d be the last! BG

By: Joe Gramm

Joe Gramm — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:27:13 +0000

Thanks for the comment Alberta, who happens to be my sister, who happens to be a published author. You can visit her website at the above URL. We at the Cape Gramm’s guessed correctly you’d probably be the first comment!!

By: Alberta Sequeira

Alberta Sequeira — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:20:12 +0000

A Great Name! Smart thinking for the future.