News Source: http://www.pdxtc.com
Published: Jun 12, 2009 - 04:56 pm
Story Found By: scottclark 976 Days ago
Category: SEO
Note that when I went through the process I got a message that said "Hm. Something isn’t right. We’re checking into it now." - so perhaps this isn’t fully flushed out.
Still, a way to migrate domain names will be a welcome aid for those of us who have to suffer through it from time to time!
Official Google help URL here
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106
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SEO’ing during a domain move gives all of us headaches. I hope that they iron out the difficulties soon with the tool. I received a note today from Google saying that they were working on the issues now.
Nice info Scott. I was not aware of this tool until now.Looks like the new URL must be verified first, which makes sense. I’ll certainly dig into this a little deeper. Anything that makes moving a site to a new domain easier is a blessing IMO.
Yeah, thanks for posting this.Looks like a really handy tool for business owners, Google should draw more attention to it (once the kinks are worked out, of course).
Solution: The issue I had was because I had only verified the www-version of the old domain. You must verify both the www and non-www version of the old domain. Hopefully Google will fix this issue too...but for now, it works.