Ade in Business

I rolled the dice and changed the URL for this site from http://blog.olonoh.com to http://www.adeolonoh.com. I’ve been pondering the switch for a while now, but never took the time to follow through.

Unfortunately, this means that I’ve lost my Google PageRank, my Technorati rank, and my Alexa stats. Hopefully Google will pick up on the permanent redirect I setup and reassign the PageRank value to the blog. If anyone knows how to fix the Technorati and Alexa problem please let me know.

And if you’re interested, the .htaccess file I used to redirect all the pages from the old URL to the new one is below. This is one of those “recipes” that I’ve had to use from time to time, but never seem to remember the exact syntax when I need it.

1. RewriteEngine on
2. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^blog.olonoh.com$ [OR]
3. RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.blog.olonoh.com$
4. RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.adeolonoh.com/$1 [R=301,L]
5. Download this code: htaccess-20061227.txt

In addition to redirecting requests to the homepage, it will redirect requests to subdirectories and files within the site as well. e.g. it will redirect http://blog.olonoh.com/about-ade-olonoh/ to http://www.adeolonoh.com/about-ade-olonoh/. If you only have one domain name to redirect, remove line #2 (the one with the [OR] at the end).

UPDATE: It took a few weeks for my Google PageRank to carry over.