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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