Consolidation means making the move to a single system instead of having multiple stand-alone websites. Consolidating your websites into one system allows you to log in once to manage all of your sites, train your teams on only one platform, and reduce maintenance and development costs.

Register and verify both the old and new domains in Google Webmaster Tools. Establish a custom 404 page for the old domain to suggest visitors head to the new domain. Test the redirects of the old domain to the new domain. 301 redirect the old domain to the new domain.

You can host as many sites as you want from one Server (one IP). All you need is to is to: Point the A record of the websites (from the DNS settings of the NameServers of the respective websites) that you want to host to the IP of the Server. Create Virtual hosts on the Server.

We have put together a breakdown of the ten most popular kinds of websites to help you make that decision.

1. 1 E-commerce.
2. 2 Blogs and Personal.
3. 3 Informational.
4. 4 Online Community.
5. 5 Photo Sharing.
6. 6 Resume.
7. 7 Portfolio.
8. 8 Catalogue and Brochure.

How to find out what PLATFORM a website is using:

1. Open your browser inspector.
2. In Chrome or Firefox, right-click then choose INSPECT.
3. Ctrl+Shift+I (Windows) or Cmd+Shift+I (Mac) should also work.
4. Navigate to SOURCES.
5. The source code’s file extensions and URLs can tell you what type of platform the website is built on.

A website title, or title tag, refers to the HTML title tag that appears in multiple places across the internet. A website title identifies what the web page is about for both web users and search engines.

A domain contains a group of computers that can be accessed and administered with a common set of rules. For example, a company may require all local computers to be networked within the same domain so that each computer can be seen from other computers within the domain or located from a central server.