Is 301 redirect possible with SmugMug?

travelways

Hi,

I'm thinking to change the name of my travelways.com site to a more photo related name, but I'll keep the current name for a blog site.

However, I know that by simply changing the name, I will loose all the google ranking and I'll have 404 errors for all the links I made from social media sites, like facebook, pinterest, etc....

I'm wondering if a 301 redirect from the current name to the new name would be possible???

Thanks,

rainforest1155

Hi Tatiana,

Changing your custom domain is something I'd advise against for the same reasons you already mentioned. Not only would Google have to re-index all the content, it may also take time before it could do that as Google usually doesn't index the same content twice and you'd therefore likely have to wait for the content to drop from your old domain.

In regards to the redirect, that's something you'd have to set up at your domain host. SmugMug only supports one custom domain for an account. I can't say if that kind of redirect is even possible without affecting your Google ranking. You may have to check with your domain host to see what they say and if that might be something they could do.

travelways

Yes, I got it

Thank you very much.