Have you noticed the new URL of my blog ? Yes, Its new. Recently I decided to change the URL of the blog but its on same location and its the same blog. The old URL thechetan.com is now 301 redirected to the new address chetangole.com/blog/. All posts, pages, everything is moved. Rather than saying ‘moved’ its just renamed because the actual server location is still the same, I just changed the address i.e. URL.
All older links are automatically redirected to the respective new link address, thanks to .htaccess file and its rules, and off-course the simplicity of WordPress helped me here.
Its really a very risky task for blogger having domain with Google Pagerank of 6 and now I changed the domain itself. Its a big experiment that I am doing with myself, lets see what will be the result. Now I will have to ‘request for change address’ at many places including dmoz.org, etc.
I also did few minor css change in blog design, about me page is also changed, new contact form added, new logo, twitter stream is also added to the blog. I am also planning for few more changes in posting style and planning to change & add few more categories.
Meanwhile if you face any problem or come across any bug, please let me know about it. Also it is the request to you all, to kindly update your bookmarks and if you are linking to the old domain i.e. thechetan.com please change it to chetangole.com/blog/.
update:
1. I am still working on editing various non hosted things like feedburner feeds. status : under progress.
Oct 25, 2010 at 12:42 am
Chetan any particular reason for changing domain name ??
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Chetan Replied:
October 25, 2010 at 10:17 pm
@Harsh Agrawal, No Harsh, There is no as such technical reason for this. Just a personal choice.
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abhi garapati Replied:
February 22, 2011 at 10:17 pm
@Chetan, why you are changed the url pattern because your pr is 6 at that time such a risky thing
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Oct 25, 2010 at 9:57 am
The earlier domain name was better I think. I have a question that why you preferred 302 redirection instead of 301 ?
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Chetan Replied:
October 25, 2010 at 10:17 pm
@Simrandeep Singh, Sorry It should be 301. I did 301 redirection but mistakenly wrote 302 in post. Post edited! Thanks.
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Simrandeep Singh Replied:
October 25, 2010 at 10:17 pm
@Chetan, Nice
Hey are you using any plugin for “Reply to this comment” feature ? Actually when I clicked on it, it automatically added “@Chetan”
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Chetan Replied:
October 25, 2010 at 10:17 pm
@Simrandeep Singh, Yes I am using a plugin [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-thread-comment/] Its very complicated plugin with many many features.
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Simrandeep Singh Replied:
October 25, 2010 at 10:17 pm
@Chetan, Thanks Chetan.. I’ll give it a try.
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Nov 4, 2010 at 1:13 pm
@chetan that’s good but I am scare of pagerank..don’t you? PR 6 is very huge for a blogger.. good luck dost..
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Chetan Replied:
November 4, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Yes. PR 6 is really huge. But As always – I love taking risks.
Lets hope for the best.
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Nov 11, 2010 at 5:22 pm
dost,
so you get amend listing on dmoz.org ?
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Chetan Replied:
November 11, 2010 at 10:17 pm
@Keshab raj, No not yet.
I applied for it.
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Jan 21, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Dost, so you got PR 4 for this time ! good luck for next time..
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Feb 24, 2011 at 5:04 pm
So you have to renew both the domains every year?
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Apr 18, 2011 at 2:49 pm
I do not see any positive reason to change a URL like yours.
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Dec 22, 2011 at 7:27 pm
How did you go about the change of address in google webmaster tools? Does google even allow two sites verified at the same location?
Could you give a step by step of move process at google?
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