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Hi all, I work for a marketing company and we built a website for a home building company about 5 years ago, however they want to change the URL to something else, it’s going to be the same website but just a different URL
If I want to change [abc.com]) to [xyz.com]) and I know you do this in General settings, but is there anything else I have to do, for example do I need to put in 301 redirects to redirect [abc.com/about]) to xyz.com/about?? If so, could I do this with the Redirection plugin—- the new xyz domain is in a Go daddy account, do I need to do anything there
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Is this for a self-hosted WordPress install? Or WordPress.com hosted?
It’s more complicated than that.
You first need to point the new domain’s dns to your server.
Then you can change the url in the site settings.
Then setup a rule in htaccess to 301 any old url to the new url.
Then update all the URLs in the site using a plugin called Better Search Replace.
Then you inform google of the domain change so they can transfer your “seo juice” to the new domain. This is done in google search console.