Steve Belt has a running chronicle of what he went through while changing the ULR Domain Name for his blog. If you are thinking about making this kind of change you should read Steve’s post on what you will probably encounter in the process.
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Here is how the first post began:
Greg Swann at Bloodhound blog on June 21, 2007 launched the new blog Real Estate Weblogging 101.
What Greg didn’t realize was he also set in motion an experiment I have been wanting to run here in the lab.
Here is the basis for the experiment:
- Setup a new domain name.
- Use Wordpress as the basis
- Instead of Post use Pages
- See how the search engines respond
When I say search engines, I’m referring to Google primarily.
Since we recently had a PR update from Supreme Ruler I couldn’t resist going back to the site and seeing how the experiment is proceeding.
Quite well is the short answer. I should say amazing considering this is a blog that is barely 4 months.
In our second post on the site it was just over 2 months old and had nothing in supplemental results that shouldn’t be there. Time has passed and the issue of supplemental results is history. I miss them in a way, but not really.
What I found this week.
- The home page has a PR4
- Almost every page of the site had a PR3.
- There are a handful of PR2 pages.
- There appear to be 4 or 5 posts, Two of those have PR3 The others aren’t showing as indexed.
The internal linking of pages is established by a “Table of Contents” on every page which means every page is linked to every other page is significant. The same effect is now being done on sites that are publishing their archives in the sidebar navigation.
I don’t know about you but I would love to have a site that is less than 4 months old with about 40 pages not only indexed but with a PR3 and a PR4 home page with a smattering of PR2’s for good measure.
If I were ever going to build a static site with only pages and additional content to be added from time to time. This is how I would do it with a focus on pages not posts.
If I were thinking of changing locations to another part of the country and wanted to establish a presence there I would take my best blog posts, edit them to fit the location. Put them on a new site. Publish the entire site in a single step. I’d do this about 4 months before I was actually making the move and I would watch this little seedling grow to an oak.
Thanks again Greg for this great site. It is filled with valuable content and is being justly rewarded for it.
PS. Greg, please forgive the corny prose in the Supreme Ruler post the other day. : )
If you want to read the first two posts they are Real Estate Weblogging 101 and Real Estate Weblogging 101 2 month old Plus
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