Wed Jan 23 22:03:15 PST 2019

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How Not to Move a Web Site
If I did this with a client site, I?d deserve to be shot. I changed my DNS and
moved one of my sites at about the same time. The DNS change quickly
propagated through, but my site took a while to load to the new server.
Google happened to spider my URL when there was no site on the new web
server:

In spite of the site not being there, my then-blank site (Search-Marketing.info) still
ranked at number six for search engine marketing out of 15 million results.

So don?t repeat my error?the proper way to move hosts is to set up the new site,
point the DNS at the new location, and then take the old site down after a few days
to a week.