Main URL change

[jasperli]

Hi, Can my main URL be changed from skischoolguide.eu to skischoolguide.com (both english) without any issues?
Please also refer to: urgent-issues-with-url-translations-overall-progress-t3167.html

Jasper

[Yana]

Hi,

We can change your license. You just need to move your website to skischoolguide.com and create CNAME records. Please let us know when you are ready.

[jasperli]

Hello Yana,

I changed the domain on my server, can you adjust my account that skischoolguide.com will be the main URL? So to be exactly, i have the following CNAME records pointing to your servers:

skischoolguide.com - ORIGINAL - english // on my own server

skischoolguide.co.uk - cname - english
skischoolguide.de - cname - german
skischoolguide.ch- cname - german
skischoolguide.at - cname - german
skischoolguide.nl - cname - dutch
skischoolguide.be - cname - dutch
skischoolguide.es - cname - spanish
skischoolguide.ru - cname - russian
skischoolguide.fr - cname - french
skischoolguide.it - cname - italian

skischoolguide.eu => will be absolete and can be deleted from your system!

Jasper

[jasperli]

Hi. Already progressed? Then i can start with the manual url changes

[Yana]

Hi,

We will change the domain name. We don't recommend having two domain names for the same language. I'll contact you as soon as we change it.

[jasperli]

Hello Yana,

You mean that .de / .at / .ch all in German is not recommended?
I thought that Google values their own countries domain extenstion higher.

Or do you have another reason, something i didn't think about?

Jasper

[Yana]

Hi,
It can cause duplicate content issues.

[jasperli]

Hi Yana,

Are you in the process of migrating now?
At this moment every domein with .nl / .at etc. is showing our main default page or redirecting to skischoolguide.com. Is that normal?

All CNAME etc. in DNS is oke.
My .htaccess file:

# Main website redirect non-www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.com
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.nl
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.nl/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.at
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.at/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.be
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.be/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.ch
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.ch/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.de
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.de/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.fr
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.fr/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.es
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.es/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.co.uk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.ru
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.ru/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-GT-Lang} ^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^skischoolguide.it
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.skischoolguide.it/$1 [R=301,L]

[jasperli]

For the ease of the process, you may flush all existing cache if that is easier.
Use .com as the main URL and then i will start from scratch.

[Yana]

Hi,

We changed the license . There is no need to add redirect rules for the translated versions. You should add the rules only for main domain name.