Change of addresses

[coelebs]

This might be a silly question, but I'll ask it anyway.

I have your hit counter's tracking code only on one starting page of three separate sites in frames to get site by site the total amount of visitors and to know from where they come: http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/ulrikaj/, http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/ulrikaj/opetus/ and http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/ulrikaj/mms/. All these addresses will gradually change to be http://kotisivu.lumonetti.fi/ulrikaj/, http://kotisivu.lumonetti.fi/ulrikaj/opetus/ and http://kotisivu.lumonetti.fi/ulrikaj/mms/.

The location, server and contents of the sites will not change, only the addresses, and to be exact: part of them. Both old and new addresses will be functional simultaneously at least till the end of this year. Even the service provider didn't yet know when exactly this final change will occur, or whether it creates an automatic redirection when the time comes.

I have already mailed the new addresses to a few visitors and I have decided to add a message about the change on the starting pages in the beginning of next month.

So, what happens to the hit counters? I was not at least so far able to do any redirection myself - probably because the server doesn't change or I'm missing some essential information to do that in this particular case. Now I get the results of the dnainternet.net-addresses, and if I keep it that way, will the hit counters ignore the lumonetti.fi-addresses when the visitors start gradually using them? Or if I change the new address on my accounts, will the hit counters ignore the dnainternet.net-addresses?

The functioning of many hit-counters is told to be banned if the code isn't in the reported address. How about in this case, when they both are there and aren't there, and what should be done if anything? Should I do new accounts of these new lumonetti.fi-addresses over the transmission time, though the tracking code can send information in spite of the addresses, because the code is still the same, and which would also mean two practically similar codes on the same pages. It is anyway better to do the change of addresses gradually rather than suddenly that the visitors have enough time to notice it.

[branica]

In terms of the counters, as long as the code is on the page itself the counts from the counters should be fine. You should not have to do anything. The address captured during the signup is just for informational purposes and does not affect what the counter counts.

In terms of changing over the sites, I would just do a 301 redirect and be done with it. But that is my approach, you'll have to measure what you want to accomplish.

[coelebs]

I have finally succeeded in creating the redirections which work fine at least on my home computer. I'll put them on the server at the end the month and change the addresses on my account. The main thing is that the tracking doesn't pause. Thanks for the reply!