: If URL 1 and URL 2 are different, then Google is not simply going to start showing the new URL. You have to let Google know of the change in order for them to update their listings. To

@Murray432

If URL 1 and URL 2 are different, then Google is not simply going to start showing the new URL. You have to let Google know of the change in order for them to update their listings. To do this, you will need to use 301 redirects from the old pages to the new so Google can update their URLs.

Assuming you are in a LAMP hosting environment, you need to add one of these for each page in the site to the HTACCESS file in the domain root directory.

redirect 301 /old.htm www.URL2.com/new.htm

If your server is a Windows/IIS server, then you will need your host to help you with the redirects.

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