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If you can see from coming to Blogging4cash.com I have now switched domain names to Blogtomic.com. It was a hard decision to make but after 3 months of not being indexed by Google I just kicked the bucket and got a new domain name. It seems that the other domain might have had a bad history. I did send in a reconsideration to Google at the beginning of February but I have not heard back from them yet so till that happens I will keep this domain and start over. The good news is the new domain name is indexed already so that is a lot of weight off my shoulders. This does mean that I have lost my Alexa Ranking and all of my linkbacks, but in time that will all come back. Better to do the switch now than 6 months down the road, since the blog is only 3 months old, which is probably a little to late anyway. So let’s see how I did the switch with Wordpress.

Switching your domain using Wordpress
The process did not take to awfully long, and if you come to run in to the same problem I did or just want to switch a domain name here are some things that I did to switch over. I think the whole process of switching over only took me around 3-4 hours, but I had to look for all the information that I am sharing, so it will probably take you half the time to do all of this. There are longer methods with a long process, but this is what I did and the time was not to bad to get it all done and it worked fine.

New Domain
The first thing is to get your new domain name and set it to the same folder as your old one. No need to move folders, backups or anything like that. If you want to feel safe before doing any of this though you can backup your Wordpress files and Database. You can try the Backup Plugin from Skippy.

301 Redirect
Next you need to set up a 301 redirect. A 301 is a permanent redirect. You can find methods here on different types of redirect methods. Another option for Wordpress users there are a few plugins that may help you along. Permalink Redirect Plugin or the Redirect Plugin. I did not test any of these so I would suggest you read the pages to see if they are right for what you are doing. The easiest way I found was just doing it though .htaccess.

Changing Uploaded Images and URLs in the Database
Then there was the problem of all the images and post still showing up as blogging4cash.com on the site. I looked for an easy way to switch all instances of blogging4cash to blogtomic in the Database. The method I found to change all this data was from Michael.biven.com, if you go down to Importing The Data, there are a few MySQL functions that will help you change the URLs in your database. The method worked great and all my post URLs and uploaded images now had the new domain name with in the database and on the site.

Now for the other stuff:
Once you have changed your domain name and have your database all squared away, you might want to go in and check you Affiliate and Ad Network accounts and other accounts like Entrecard, Sitehoppin, BlogCatalog and all thous to change your account to your new URL. Also ask people linking to you to also make this change so that you can gain a few linkbacks.

Just a reminder to fellow readers:
If you do have a link on your site to blogging4cash.com please make changes for the new url in your blogroll or post if you have time. I would appreciate this.

Upcoming stuff:
Sense I have a new URL now then theme for the site may change in the next week or two when I get the time. Probably nothing drastic but maybe a new header image and some color changes to the layout till I can find time to redesign the whole blog.

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