Moving blog to new directory..

Hi all..

I have to question. Here I not to ask how to move the blog (wordpress) to another directory in sames server, but:

1) Before this my blod URL is http://blog.mydomain.com, but now I remove it to server root (directory) http://www.mydomain.com. So, what is the effect to my Search Engine Ranking? Before this, my blog is top ten in google and yahoo.
* My blog is not English language

2) Before I move my blog, there are some backlinks to my blog using that subdomain, but, how to make sure, if someone refer to the some topic like http://[B]blog.[/B]mydomain.com/category/title and it will move to http://[B][B]www.[/B][/B]mydomain.com/category/title ?

Anyone know or have experiences in this case?

Thanks a lot.

 

Hi mylifejr,

You should really make sure that you'll do this. Perhaps I have a same experience when I updated my blog permalink. Just sharing mine...

http://www.supriyadisw.net/2006/07/search-engine-optimization-for-wordpress

All back link that refers to my old permalink structure got broken (404 page not found)

You should check all of your backlink and tell the webmaster to update their link to your new domain. Perhaps you need to build your pagerank again.

Correct me if I wrong

Gud lak

 

Thanks supriyadisw..

Actually, there are one solution:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

Now, i make decision not to move all the core wordpress files to rthe oot directory, but just change the address URI only..

Just a simple task, put index.php & .htaccess into root directory and let all the core wordpress files in the it's own directory/subdomain. Then change the blog address to your main domain & dont change the wordpress URI. Just follow the steps that explained clearly at the link i give above.

In index.php file, change the part of code like this:

require('./subdomain/wp-blog-header.php');

So, when visitors want to enter your blog, they just type http://www.mydomain.com & if you want to login, must using http://subdomain.mydomain.com/wp-login.php/ or just simply click the menu login at sidebar.

So, there are no more worries to 404 or lost your backlinks.

Thanks and sorry about my question before, but we can discuss my first question about the SE ranking if we totally change / move our wordpress files to another directory or server.

 

Thank's mylifejr,

I learned a new thing here. Glad you share it. May I see your blog? Thx

Gud lak