Question about getting domain name re-indexed
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I recently swapped my domain from www.davescomputers.com to www.computer-help.com .
Originally www.computer-help.com was 301 re-directing to www.davescomputers.com ...however my long term goal is to eventually rebrand my business so I decided to utilize the other domain by swapping the main domain.
Is consistant blogging the best way to get Google to re-index the entire website?
My focus has been quality posts and sharing them with vairus social profiles I created.
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Have you reported the change using Google's change of address tool? Here's the intro from Google:
If you've moved your site to a new domain or subdomain, use the Change of address tool in Search Console. A change of address notification helps you manage the transition needed by Google to index your new URLs at the new address, while minimizing impact to your current ranking in Google Search results.
A change of address notifies Google about the new URLs for your existing content, so that we can update our index to reflect the new domain for your pages. This updated index status remains in effect for 180 days, by which time Googlebot will have crawled and indexed the pages at the new address.
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