change name

[ceejay77]

Can you change a sites domain name with out altering its search results,does it cause a issue with google?

 

[woopwoop]

Personally I wouldn't for a website that's established with any kind of a brand or history (especially established enough to have inbound links), but I think the best way may be with 301 redirects.

Take a look here for some info:
http://www.webtoolkit.info/google-friendly-domain-redirect-using-apache-rewrite.html

 

[retired_member34]

I followed Google's webmaster guidelines when doing this (I moved a highly ranking .com to a .co.uk, it dropped out on the index for a few scary weeks then reappeared. It's a lot of work). As the url and anchor text may have an effect on the rank however it can change the search results for better or worse.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/04/best-practices-when-moving-your-site.html