changing or re-directing url's

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I am a novice with a very small fishing website. It is currently listed in
the google directory and I am in the process of changes to make it search
engine friendly (I hope) It is http://www.lakeeriecaptain.com I bought
another domain name so it has keywords within the name. It is
http://Lake-Erie-Walleye-Charter-Fishing.com. The new domain is currently
aliased to the old old one. What I am wondering is what do I do now. I have
some people tell me to leave it alone, others say to add a re-direct. I do
not want to loose the links I have now or the listing in the google directory
but I do want to use the new url and resubmit to the engines when I have the
content done. If a re-direct is the answer how do I go about it?

Art
 
Hi,
I'd probably focus on the first domain. It's true that getting keywords in
your domain can give you a slight advantage in Google but it's less
important than content and incoming links. The new domain to my mind is too
long for people to remember let alone give to each other eg over the phone
etc

There's more effective things you can do to get your site ranked well - I'm
assuming "Fishing on Lake Erie" would be the main phrase you want to target
1/ Get your keywords in the title, H1, H2 tags and well sprinkled throughout
your home page body text. So for example you have this text at the top of
your page
<p align="center"><i><font face="Arial Black" color="#FF0000">Enjoy Lake
Erie
walleye charter fishing with Captain Art Miller and</font></i></p>
This should be a heading
<h1>Lake Erie walleye charter fishing</h1>
Search engines place greater emphasis on text in heading tags than <p> tags.
Using CSS rather than font tags will also help you
2/ Make all the links in your navigation absolute eg
http://www.lakeeriecaptain.com/page.htm rather than page.htm this is a
little trick to make google think you have incoming links to your site.
3/ Link that picture of a boat to http://www.lakeeriecaptain.com and make
the alt tag "Fishing On Lake Erie"
4/ Get some more links to your site - basically set up a links page on your
site and email every site you can find that has anything to do with fishing
boats tourism or lake erie and ask to exchange links. Make sure they link to
you as <a href="http://www.lakeeriecaptain.com">Fishing On Lake Erie</a>

As it stands you already have a Page rank of 4 which is a very good start.
The steps above should boost your PR nicely and get you ranked higher.

I'd just leave the new domain pointing to your site as you have it.
 
I've wondered about a similar question. If I kept my www.mysite.com
name, but transferred to it to a new webhosting provider so that the url
pointed to different nameservers, would anything change relative to
Google?

Would it even know a change was made, or would it be "starting over" in
the use of whatever algorithmes it uses to evaluate sites?
 
No.

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If your site has the same name, same pages, etc., and is just moved to a
different server and therefore a different NS and IP -- your position in
Google will NOT be affected at all. Just be sure to keep the old copy
live on the old server until the new DNS resolves and fully propagates.
 
Jon, your reply was helpful, but as I said I am a real novice
(computer/web/Front Page) If it is not too much to ask could you give me a
little more detail on the following:

You spoke about headings & gave an example. Where do they go? How many
headings can you have on a page? Are they exactly like you typed? <h1>Lake
Erie Walleye Charter fishing</h1>, for example

What are CSS tags and how do you apply them?

What do you mean by making the links absolute & how do you go about it?

How do you make an alt tag & where does it go?

And finally......You told me to have our link as <a
href="http://www.lakeeriecaptain.com">Fishing On Lake Erie</a>, exactly like
this with a space between the a and href?

More detail explanation would be greatly appreciated.

Art
 

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