Can anyone help me?

[HarryJohn]

Hello friends,
I am running an online business but I have problem with my site url because it’s too long and ugly. I want shrink it down to a manageable size. Please let me know if you have any idea. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[TheAnonymousMan]

Hello HarryJohn

We might be able to suggest some alternative domain names for you to choose from.

What is your existing domain name and what keywords would you prefer (if any) in your new domain name?

Cheers

TheAnonymousMan

[bmueller47]

Hi The AnonymousMan,

When one has a Domain Name ie URL, I understand, it is not possible to change it. One has to take out a complete new Domain. Is that correct?

However, if you can change it, how can you do it?

Kindest Regards,

Beat
"Unlock People's Potentials!"

[Kevin Lee]

Hi The AnonymousMan,

When one has a Domain Name ie URL, I understand, it is not possible to change it. One has to take out a complete new Domain. Is that correct?

However, if you can change it, how can you do it?

Kindest Regards,

Beat
"Unlock People's Potentials!"

Hi Beat,

You can change your domain name by following the instructions found on this page: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/Art ... 13516.html

[litekepr]

Hi The AnonymousMan,

When one has a Domain Name ie URL, I understand, it is not possible to change it. One has to take out a complete new Domain. Is that correct?

However, if you can change it, how can you do it?

Kindest Regards,

Beat
"Unlock People's Potentials!"

I don't know the procedure, but can't he buy the new domain he wants and then redirect traffic from the old domain to the new domain? I work on a site and we recently moved all the content (about 3000-4000 pages) to a new format etc and when people click on the original domain, they are taken to the new site. Redirecting is a beautiful thing I had instructions somewhere, but I've never tried to do it myself.

Shri


Nikki

[TheAnonymousMan]

I don't know the procedure, but can't he buy the new domain he wants and then redirect traffic from the old domain to the new domain? I work on a site and we recently moved all the content (about 3000-4000 pages) to a new format etc and when people click on the original domain, they are taken to the new site. Redirecting is a beautiful thing I had instructions somewhere, but I've never tried to do it myself.

Shri

Hi Shri

Yes this is correct, you can either change the primary domain name on your web hosting account (fee may be applicable) and update the nameservers for the new domain name or you can use various redirection methods available at this redirection tutorial.

Generally it's best to use the .htaccess file method for redirection but I found on my web host it didn't work, so I inserted the PHP redirection method into my header template and now all webpages of the old website redirect to the index page of my new website. The only disadvantage is that when any webpage on the old website is visited it will automatically redirect to the root or index of the new website.

Please note that users do not ever see the old website, to see an example of redirection go to www.totalrenovations.com.au and watch it redirect to the new address instantly.

[OmnivoreInk]

Please note that users do not ever see the old website, to see an example of redirection go to www.totalrenovations.com.au and watch it redirect to the new address instantly

I'll say it again! These forums are invaluable!! Thanks, all.

[Takuya]

Well, you have an option called "Masking" where you still redirect using a domain to another website, yet, that page shows the old domain name.

I have a few domains that I use to redirect, but after redirecting to the destination, it will keep my old domain there.

But I only use this method to show one page for that domain. I remember once talked about getting an unique URL just for your business card.

What I do is I use an unique domain on my business card and whoever uses that domain goes to a page on my hosting that uses completely different domain while keeping the domain they saw it on my business card.

The page continues to show the domain that my visitors use to reach that webpage because I choose to "mask" it.

Or you can do this, I am going to get a little geeky here so bear with me. But this will completely automate tracking.

1. I use a unique URL on a business card,

2. My visitors immediately arrive to a page on my website that is blank but they have no idea it is blank because this takes place in less than half a second loading time.

3. On that blank page, I create this html page.

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>Your Website Name</TITLE></HEAD>


<p><!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" startspan --><html>
<title>Home</title>
<body>
<script>
document.location.href ="http://yourdomain";
</script>
</body>
</html><!--webbot bot="HTMLMarkup" endspan --></p>


</HTML>

4. You can end here if you just want to redirect to another page, or I go extra mile by tracking it. What happened there is you just redirected visitors to another page without them knowing it because this happens so quickly.

5. In addition, I track it by inserting a code from Google Analytics as instructed.

For example, you're supposed to insert Google Analytics code just before the

</body>

at the very end of your html.

6. Use tracking URL in your redirect itself. In this case, where it says

document.location.href ="http://yourdomain"

"yourdomain" will contain your tracking URL.

I know it's geeky, but once you know how to use it, you can use it to cloak URL while tracking the traffic.

So if you make an URL like yourdomain/recommends/yourproduct it would only show that link.

Warmest Regards,
Takuya

[bmueller47]

Hi Takuya,

Your info is phantastic. Would it be possible to have some sort of directory to find this info at a later date?

Can one find it in the 'Search' section? If I understand it right, it covers only the Subject Titles. Is that correct?

I started writing this post before checking the 'Search' and all its possibilities.

Kindest Regards

Beat
"Unlock People's Potentials!"

[Takuya]

You probably have to just bookmark this page to return. You can find the thread using search feature, but need to know what to say in the search bar.

Simple bookmark should work.

Anyone else needing any type of scripts like this? Maybe we can all share instructions.

Let us know if you need to know something like this. Some of us will know and these useful information will always help this forum spread the word.

Warmest Regards,
Takuya

[litekepr]

Hi Takuya,

Your info is phantastic. Would it be possible to have some sort of directory to find this info at a later date?

Can one find it in the 'Search' section? If I understand it right, it covers only the Subject Titles. Is that correct?

I started writing this post before checking the 'Search' and all its possibilities.

Kindest Regards

Beat
"Unlock People's Potentials!"

I use the search engine quite often to find a specific post and I think it pulls info from within the post. You might test it, but I recently wanted to post a follow up bit of info and entered "Facebook" in the search because that's what we were talking about and it pulled up the post I wanted. Its a great feature

Shri