New website help

[Trailer-Made-Ads]

I have recently had a new website done for me, but when i type trailer made ads in to google the old site comes up that starts with www<dot>s7... something or other and the new site which should come up as www<dot>trailer-made-ads<dot>co<dot>uk is no where to be seen.

I have used 1and1 as my original website builder and my website knowledge is very limited so any help is much appreciated in plain non jargon english!

many thanks

[SFD]

www.trailer-made-ads.co.uk is so new it hasn't been indexed by google yet. Just wait a few days, it should soon happen.

[sandpetra]

Howdy

It takes a while for Google to spider a new site (a couple of weeks) - G might not know about your new site yet.

Do you control your old site entirely? Hosting etc?

You need to 301 redirect that old site to your new one to keep any rankings you have. This is not difficult - it can be done with 1 line of code in the HTACCESS file.

[tb1234]

You can forward the old site to the new one in the oneandone control panel under domain management, assuming this is what you want to do.

[Trailer-Made-Ads]

thank you for the replies, i shall wait a couple of weeks and see what happens.

I guess i was just eager!

[Trailer-Made-Ads]

You can forward the old site to the new one in the oneandone control panel under domain management, assuming this is what you want to do.

this sounds a good idea

[iamlijo]

Ditto

forward your old site to new , so you won't loose any traffic

this sounds a good idea

[fisicx]

thank you for the replies, i shall wait a couple of weeks and see what happens.

I guess i was just eager!

Google will only index a site if it knows it exists. You need to have at least one inbound link for google to follow. Or of course set up the 301 redirects which tells google about the new site.

[seoandy]

as previously mentioned - 301 redirect you get all the awards form your old domain to your new domain

[Trailer-Made-Ads]

without wanting to sound dumb, what is a 301 redirect?

[tb1234]

It is just a search engine friendly way of redirecting pages - in domain administration just choose forward domain under destination.

[Hillyer]

And great website Colin.

I wish you the best of luck for the future. Keep us updated ;]

[fisicx]

Site is now the index: http://www.google.co.uk/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off&q=trailer-made-ads.co.uk&btnG=Search&meta=

The page it has indexed is only your holding page though so give it a few days to revisit and update it's cache.

[talklife]

forward the old domain name maybe not increase your PR.