Comments on: A Shocking Website Error http://lawyersvideostudio.com/2009/11/10/a-shocking-website-error/ A great place to learn about creating and improving video for lawyers. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:14:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mal Milligan http://lawyersvideostudio.com/2009/11/10/a-shocking-website-error/comment-page-1/#comment-379 Mal Milligan Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:49:55 +0000 http://lawyersvideostudio.com/?p=610#comment-379 Gerry is right. Attorney websites have to change domains names when the firm adds a partner or looses a partner or a variety of other reasons. When we make a new website we use what are known as "permanent re-directs" or "301 re-directs" to keep all those critical inbound links to your website and move them to the new site. These permanent re-directs tell Google and other search engines that we are officially moving the page and we would like them to keep all the PageRank and in bound links we worked hard to get in the first place. And it's not just the home page. Usually you will have PageRank and links on your Attorney Profile Pages and a couple of other key pages... usually category pages. So we 301 re-direct those pages as well. For the two or three weeks your new site will take a hit on Google rankings but they usually come back quickly if you add new content like Gerry mentioned he did and get a few new links to the new site. Regards - Mal Gerry is right. Attorney websites have to change domains names when the firm adds a partner or looses a partner or a variety of other reasons. When we make a new website we use what are known as “permanent re-directs” or “301 re-directs” to keep all those critical inbound links to your website and move them to the new site. These permanent re-directs tell Google and other search engines that we are officially moving the page and we would like them to keep all the PageRank and in bound links we worked hard to get in the first place.

And it’s not just the home page. Usually you will have PageRank and links on your Attorney Profile Pages and a couple of other key pages… usually category pages. So we 301 re-direct those pages as well. For the two or three weeks your new site will take a hit on Google rankings but they usually come back quickly if you add new content like Gerry mentioned he did and get a few new links to the new site. Regards – Mal

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