Actions in Google Search Console
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 6:50 am
1. Go to the Search Console panel of the old domain .
2. Use the “Change Address” tool, it is located in the “Settings” section:
Moving a website to a new domain: how to do it right [instructions]
3. Select a new domain and click “Check and update data”:
Moving a website to a new domain: how to do it right [instructions]
After all necessary checks have been completed, a notification about the site transfer will appear in Search Console.
That's all. It remains to check the correct operation norway phone number material of your resource. Please note that some site settings may be lost (for example, design, element placement, etc.). In this case, you need to adjust them manually using CMS and plugins.
How to speed up indexing of a new site
Use the capabilities of webmaster panels to prioritize crawling of new site pages.
In Yandex Webmaster, this can be done in the section “Indexing” → “Re-crawling pages”:
Moving a website to a new domain: how to do it right [instructions]
In Google Search Console, you can request indexing of a page after checking its presence in the index, the verification line is in the console header:
Moving a website to a new domain: how to do it right [instructions]
Don't forget to change the website address in search engine geoservices (Yandex Maps and Google maps), directories, aggregators and catalogs where you were previously located.
If possible, update external links that lead to your site - ask webmasters to replace the domain in the addresses. The link mass will increase the trust of the new domain.
During the reindexing, launch contextual or targeted advertising on the new domain. This will compensate for the drop in search traffic and develop behavioral metrics on the pages of the new site.
2. Use the “Change Address” tool, it is located in the “Settings” section:
Moving a website to a new domain: how to do it right [instructions]
3. Select a new domain and click “Check and update data”:
Moving a website to a new domain: how to do it right [instructions]
After all necessary checks have been completed, a notification about the site transfer will appear in Search Console.
That's all. It remains to check the correct operation norway phone number material of your resource. Please note that some site settings may be lost (for example, design, element placement, etc.). In this case, you need to adjust them manually using CMS and plugins.
How to speed up indexing of a new site
Use the capabilities of webmaster panels to prioritize crawling of new site pages.
In Yandex Webmaster, this can be done in the section “Indexing” → “Re-crawling pages”:
Moving a website to a new domain: how to do it right [instructions]
In Google Search Console, you can request indexing of a page after checking its presence in the index, the verification line is in the console header:
Moving a website to a new domain: how to do it right [instructions]
Don't forget to change the website address in search engine geoservices (Yandex Maps and Google maps), directories, aggregators and catalogs where you were previously located.
If possible, update external links that lead to your site - ask webmasters to replace the domain in the addresses. The link mass will increase the trust of the new domain.
During the reindexing, launch contextual or targeted advertising on the new domain. This will compensate for the drop in search traffic and develop behavioral metrics on the pages of the new site.