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How to transfer a domain
We know of a business near to our offices where the proprietor is paying
£150 per year to a web designer to host a site. This is about 300%
more than he should be paying. If he was with www.businessbusstop.com
for example, he would be paying nothing if the company was handling his
SEO as well, or alternatively £60 per year max.
Transferring a domain should be very simple. You should simply be able
to identify a new provider, set up the information the new provider needs
and then advise the old provider that you wish to transfer to the new
one. There is a protocol that says the old provider has to respond to
the new provider within a set period of time and also facilitate the transfer.
This can go through very easily and one of our companies has transferred
over 30 domains without a hitch in a relatively short period of time.
However, two of our sites were particularly awkward and cost us search
engine rankings and also business when the service provider (the ISP)
failed to transfer the site within a period of time and then managed to
delete other sites linked to it without our permission.
Therefore, it is very important before transferring a domain to think
carefully as to the reasons why you are doing it. If you are transferring
the domain to save money (usually hosting can be got for £60 per
annum from an ISP if you set up the hosting yourself), then you need to
consider how often your site will need altering and how much you would
be paying your web designer for doing this.
However, if you have a site that rarely needs any alterations and you
are simply looking for SEO work to be done on it, it may be worth staying
with your web designer simply because their fee will probably not be that
much more than the actual hosting elsewhere. If you are transferring for
technical reasons (one of the reasons we’ve transferred sites in
the past is for the mod_rewrite function to work as some of the providers
such as www.names.co.uk do not facilitate this on some of their accounts),
then we would recommend www.unitedhosting.co.uk
for price and also ease of transfer. Our main ISP provider is www.names.co.uk,
but for some reason they do not use an Apache server but instead they
use a Zeus server, and there are SEO issues with this. As a result, if
you are using a database driven website at a fairly high technical level,
then something such as Zoomla! running on it, then you may be better with
www.unitedhosting.co.uk. For very straightforward sites however, you are
probably okay to use www.names.co.uk.
When we started out back in 1999, we used www.uk2.net and all our sites
were hosted by them and registered with them. However, www.uk2.net has
over the years had terrible customer service and this has not changed.
We have two of our main sites still with www.uk2.net simply because we
are terrified of transferring them as they are prone to such awful gaffes
that they are likely to lose both of the sites if we dare try to transfer
them!
In summary, think very carefully before transferring your website as
there can be unforeseen consequences of the transfer which can result
in SEO rankings being affected and also your business dropping rather
dramatically as a result. For information on SEO work and consultancy,
please visit www.seobusstop.co.uk or
www.businessbusstop.com for
details of our web hosting services.
Business Bus Stop can host your
site free of charge and undertake any transfers for you for £20
+ VAT.
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