Your readers can get to you new web address from the old permalink with the help of 301 redirection. So it can keep your web traffic like it’s before, and never worry about losing your Faithful readers.

There’re many ways to set the 301 redirect, but I think using the wordpress plugin is the easiest one to get it done. There’re five wordpress plugins which are suitable for the 301 redirection.

1.  Redirection

Redirection is the most powerful and multifunctional one, it can redirect any access you want. But it a little hard to be used.

2. Permalinks Migration Plugin for wordpress

This is the best one for changing the permalink of wordpress blogs. It will redirect all the old permalinks to the new one post by post without any code.

3. Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin

Permalink Redirect is a powerful wordpress plugin, it can redirect all the /feed/ to your Feedburner address. If you change the permalink structure, all access to old permalink structure will be redirected to the new one.

4. WWW-Redirect

This plugin can redirect all address from http://www.yourdomain.com/ to http://yourdomain.com/.

5. 301 Redirect Plugin for WordPress

This plugin is easy to be used. What you do just enter the date you need the redirect to occur on, and the page/site you want the specified page redirected to in the plugin setting interface.

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Maybe changing the domain is not a good thing for your web site, you have to tell all your friends and readers about your new URL. The new web site shoule be indexed again by the search engines such as Google, Yahoo and so on. And your old page rank,Yahoo rank, technorati rank will all gone.

But if you know the 301 redirect, you can tell the search engines that you had changed your URL of yout web site, and the 301 redirect is good for SEO. It will redirect the permalinks to your new domain when somebody got you web site form the search engines. It’s easy the set the 301 redirect by following this steps.

1. make sure the permalinks of you new web site just like the old one.
2. make sure your old domain can be used at least three months before it comes to the time limit

If you had finished the two steps, put this code in the .htaccess file of your hosting.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^www.your-old-domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.your-new-domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

After you had finished the setting, visit your old domian to find out what the URL is now! After one month or two, the search engines will updata indexed of you web site, and redirect the your keyword to the new domain.

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