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Thank you all for your thoughts on this issue. I have decided that migrating my site to a new domain could deliver more problems than benefits due to the detailed technical skills needed

Abledragon, thank you for taking the time to help me consider things. It is a related niche that I will be developing but the domain will need to be different. I most likely will develop a site from scratch and then dismantle the old one (No doubt that will have its own challenges!) so I am now looking at the options of a stand-alone site, or another option that I found to consider - a subdomain structure which looks interesting. Here is a tutorial on WA that I found and 'Liked' Benefits of a Subdomain Chris

Hi Chris,

Interesting questions, which are going to result in some questions back to you, and a rather long reply, I'm afraid, so please bear with me..!

My first question back to you would be: will the 'new' site be in the same niche as your current one..? Or will you be promoting completely different products and services?

If you're promoting a different (new) set of products/services
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If you will be promoting different products and services then I would recommend leaving your current site alone and building the new site with the new content and set of products and services. Start with a clean sheet of paper.

You can set up a WordPress site here on WA based on the new domain you already have - initially it will be siterubix.your-new-domain.com. You can use this as a development site to set up your content and so forth and then, when you're ready, you can simply move it from Siterubix to your new domain.

However. . .

If you're promoting the *same* set of products and services
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If your new site will be promoting the *same* products and services as your current site - I would recommend *not* changing the domain name.

Despite Google's reassurances, there are a lot of steps to go through and you *will* lose traffic, at least for a while.

Next question: When you say your current site is a 'bricks and mortar' site, I'm assuming that you mean it's a flat file site - not built on WordPress or another content management system - is that correct?

If this is the case, *and* if your new site will be promoting the same products and services, then I would recommend transferring your content to a WordPress based *test* site, and then make it live on your current domain.

Since I recommend that you keep the same domain name if your new site is promoting the same products and services as your existing site, the best way to create a test site is to create a new folder (directory) under your current domain on your existing hosting provider, and call it something like 'your-current-domain.com/test'.

You can then install WordPress in that folder (directory) and transfer your content. Once you have everything the way you want it you can then delete the existing site and move the 'test' site up to the 'public_html' directory, which will make it live.

This will keep your current site, promoting the same products and services, on the current domain but based on WordPress, rather than a flat file site.

Although I'm not too sure, I believe you can host a site that is on a .co.uk domain on WA, but you would need to check with Kyle or Carson first.

If you can, then once it's on WordPress you can transfer the site to WA hosting.

However. . .

Because the page URLs will be different on the WordPress based site from what they are on the current site, you will need to set up redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs in order not to lose your links and generate a series of 404 errors.

Just for your info, there's no reason you can't apply what you learn at WA to your existing site if you leave it untouched on your current hosting provider - you don't have to host your sites with WA in order to benefit from the training. (None of my sites are hosted on WA).

Does that make sense..? My apologies for the long reply, and do let me know if I need to clarify anything!

Cheers,

Martin.

I'll hang around to see what answers you might get, Chris. I too am interested!

Jeff

I don't know the answer to this, Chris but I think it's a great question. It also a question, I'd like to know the answer to.