Have you ever renamed your website?

[Martee]

I was just wondering if anyone here had ever took the step to rename their website/forum and if so, what sort of issues did you face and how did you deal with things like SEO and redirection to the new site (If you moved domains)

 

[Sylar]

Nah never thought to do it simply due to the fact that it's such a PR nightmare. You have to advertise all over your new name, you have to redirect urls, etc etc. All that could very much mean the end of a website.

 

[Elseb]

Yea i have. Back in 2002 we started out as a wrestling forum but by 2006/7 we were starting to grow out of it so we changed to a general chat forum and changed our name.

 

[Jason1]

Nah never thought to do it simply due to the fact that it's such a PR nightmare. You have to advertise all over your new name, you have to redirect urls, etc etc. All that could very much mean the end of a website.

Same thought went over my mind and i stopped with the process.

 

[xpl0iter]

I always wanted to change the name of my site obscurant1st.biz.
But not anymore, you wouldn't believe how many searches are referring just for the word obscurant1st.

See this: