hello from chester

ralph thornton · **hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 12:15 AM

hi!
my names ralph thornton, director of thornton consultancy ltd - we are a new media marketing company based in chester, cheshire.

nice to meet u all!

fisicx · **Re: hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 08:41 AM

Hi Ralph,

Welcome to the forums. Hope to see you posting soon

Graham

ralph thornton · **Re: hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 09:50 AM

cheers graham - will be on here quite a bit me thinks!

fisicx · **Re: hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 10:13 AM

Looking forwards to it

I know zip about the whole affiliate thing so I should be able to pick up a few tips.

As an aside, you might want to check your site: www.thorntonconsultancy.co.uk/index.html is missing

ralph thornton · **Re: hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 10:27 AM

graham if you need any pointers on the affiliate front let me know, ill be more than happy to help.

we are in the process of moving the .co.uk domain - if you want to see where our site is up to so far check out www.thorntonconsultancy.com

pickaweb.co.uk · **Re: hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 10:58 AM

Hi
Warm welcome to the forum.

fisicx · **Re: hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 11:05 AM

The .co.uk site does quite well in the SERPs, if you are moving the whole shebang you need to put some redirects in place otherwise you will drop out of the index and all that hard earned ranking will be lost forever.

Graham

ralph thornton · **Re: hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 11:09 AM

we are aware of the .co.uk in SERPS, but unfortunately we have no access to the server at present (the only thing i can access is the blog control panel), the ranking hasn't taken long to build up on the .co.uk and i enjoy a good challenge so its time to do it all again with the .com!

fisicx, appreciate your advice though mate - in your opinion would it be worth placing more links on the blog on the .co.uk site or should i just set it to re-direct to the new .com site?

pickaweb.co.uk, pleased to meet you

fisicx · **Re: hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 12:16 PM

I'd leave the .co.uk site exactly as it is - with the homepage in place. That way you will keep your ranking.

Leave the blog as it is (unless you are transferring it to the new domain).

Check with you host about re-directs. Most will allow you to modify the .htaccess and set up 301 and 302 redirects.

There are any number of tutorial's on how to do this (along with some useful alternatives). Here's one I chose at random: http://www.stonetemple.com/articles/301-redirects.shtml

If is all goes pear shaped just add this line to the head of each page on the old site:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.newdomain.com/page.html">

Inserting the URL of the new page as required.

ralph thornton · **Re: hello from chester -** 11-06-2008, 12:20 PM

thanks graham,
really appreciate your help!

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