Change of Address

Our address is now onlinepress.us, please make a note of that!

We would like to tell you that our address has been changed from seoagent.org to onlinepress.us you currently looking at. This is the perfect opportunity to give you few pointers on how to change example.com to newexample.com. 

Google Webmaster Change of Address Request

• Go to Google Webmaster Tools at https://www.google.com/webmasters and login.
• Find your domain name that you want to retire on your left.
• Click on change of address.
• Scroll down to your new domain name the one that you want to change your old address to. (make sure that both domains are verified prior to this request)
• All set, you just notified Google that you are no longer using your old domain name and that you switched over to a different one.
• Now just wait until Google accepts the changes, our onlinepress.us address change was accepted in about 20 minutes or so, however it could take longer.

Change of Address from Google Webmaster Tools

Locating your new URL/Address

And your new address is moved

301 Permanent Redirect from olddomain.com to newdomain.com

This part is very important so please pay attention to it but it is not that hard. Once you are all set with all steps listed above, go to your .htaccess file and remove everything from it and add your 301 redirect. 

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://onlinepress.us/$1 [R=301,L]

And that should be it, don’t forget to re-create your new sitemap.xml and tell Google about that as well.

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