Redirecting my new Website URL to my old Website URL
-
Hi! OK, I am semi - new to SEO Moz but have been self-teaching for 3 years. However I am stuck.. I have been operating my e-commerce site from www.shopadornonline.com for the past 3 years. I just purchased www.shopadorn.com
Right now Shopadorn.com re-directs to www.shopadornonline.com because all my products and links go to shopadornonline.com/productblahblahblah
I guess I am stuck. Not sure what to tell my web designer to do? Do I give up on having shopadorn.com OR do I start re-directing customers and doing 301 re-directs?
I think from what i have read that it is bad to have traffic going to both shopadorn and shopadornonline as they compete for rankings?
Where should I start?
-
I can not understand the difficulty of the web designer. Also do not understand why he speaks in the DNS migration if there are two different domains.
Well, what he has to do is an exact copy of the site for the new domain in a new host plan.
After the copy being hosted in the new domain, it does a 301 redirecting the old domain to new. So all pages will redirect to the new, including the intern will be right and you will not lose rankings. -
Ok, SO I checked with my web designer about the transfer and showed her the strand. This was her response. Are we on the right page? Her response is below.
There is so much in that email, I have no idea what's going on there. So people do recommend switching it? We have to switch the domains before doing 301 redirects. Hopefully all we need to do is hostshopadornonline.com with a redirect rule that will change the URL to shopadorn.com an keep the rest of the URL. If you do redirects now nothing will happen because there is technically nothing atshopadorn.com to redirect to. Yet. We need to switc the domain in volusion then wait for the dns an ip to move over to the new domain, hopefully won't take long, then one simple redirect rule can do it all, no need to redirect every page individually. My only concern was the losing ranking part so if thats not a problem, hurray!
-
Hi Nicole. If you make a 301 on the server from one domain to another. And on the new site, the inside pages have the same address, you need not apply 301 at all pages.Example:
If someone clicks on a link or a search page:
http://www.shopadornonline.com/Accessories-s/29.htm
The 301 will automatically interpret:
http://www.shopadorn.com/Accessories-s/29.htm
What Alan said about www and without www, that your site is not doing the 301 for only an option on the home. If you type www.shopadorn.com or shopadorn.com, the url remains. So you are dividing the relevance of your homepage.
To stay safe in the migration, follow the guidelines that Google asks:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83105&hl=en
There you can see more about the 301 redirect and also inform the webmaster tools on migration, so google transfers relevance.
Hope this has helped.
-
That is the best plan. There are also some online tools that a person can use to confirm that redirects have been placed correctly and work in a search engine friendly way.
-
Thanks! I am interested in Re-Directing and having a professional do it, but I need some one that will not only do it, but explain to me what they are doing, and how they are doing it. I want to understand as I go along all the aspects of our site.
-
At the moment google sees your site as 4 seperate sites,
you need to 301 them to one
UYou ra pages will be found at your new domain as you said, but will search engines send your link juicve to the new page? only if you 301 them.
-
It sounds like one-time professional SEO help might be a good investment to be sure that everything is considered and executed perfectly. This could be reviewed with the current designer to be sure that everything goes well. Would cost a little money but well worth the spend.
-
I think that shopadorn.com is a much better domain. Congratulations.
I would consider redirecting your original domain to it. If you are in this for the long term that is what I would do.
Redirects generally work well if done carefully. Good luck!
-
Hi,
Sorry for not completely understanding. So I WANT my website to be www.shopadorn.com , so do I have to do a 301 redirect for every product?
My concern is a lot of blogs link to a specific product on our site. So they would link to http://www.shopadornonline.com/Prairie-Underground-Long-Cloak-Hoodie-in-Natural-p/prairieu_longcloak_hoodie_nat.htm
Once I make the switch to shopadorn I believe my products will now be found at www.shopadorn.com/Prairie-Underground-Long-Cloak-Hoodie-in-Natural-p/prairieu_longcloak_hoodie_nat.htm
I'm just worried about being able to keep all of those links working.
Also what do you mean
"You also need to 301 redirect your www to non www or vice a versa"
Thanks!
-
Pick one of the other and 301 redirect it to the other, at the moment you can get to your web site with either without a 301 redirect.
Your site has many 302 redirectsYou also need to 301 redirect your www to non www or vice a versa
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Should I do a redirect
Hello, I am building a new website with a new web address for subpages. The domain name stays the same. I am wondering if I should do redirect to the few pages that have an outside link going to them. I noticed all my subpage that don't have any external link have an authority of 18. I only have 1 subpage that has 2 external links and 1 of them has a spam score of 32 and then other one of 1. My website is about a 100 pages. What should I do for my subpages redirect , not redirect, redirect only the ones that have external links ? Thank you,
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | seoanalytics0 -
301 Redirects to relative URLs not absolute a problem?
Hi we recently did a migration and a lot of content changed locations see: https://d.pr/i/RvqI81 Basically, the 301 goes to the correct location but its a relative URL (as you can see from the screenshot) rather than absolute URL. Do you think this is a high priority issue from an SEO standpoint, should we get the developer to change the redirects to absolute? Cheers.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | cathywix0 -
Old product URLs still indexed and maybe causing problems?
Hi all, Need some expertise here: We recently (3 months ago) launched a newly updated site with the same domain. We also added an SSL and dropped the www (with proper redirects). We went from http://www.mysite.com to https://mysite.com. I joined the company about a week after launch of the new site. All pages I want indexed are indexed, on the sitemap and submitted (submitted in July but processes regularly). When I check site:mysite.com everything is there, but so are pages from the old site that are not on the sitemap. These do have 301 redirects. I am finding our non-product pages are ranking with no problem (including category pages) but our product pages are not, unless I type in the title almost exactly. We 301 redirected all old urls to new comparable product, or if the product is not available anymore to the home page. For better or worse, as it turns out and prior to my arrival, in building the new site the team copied much of the content (descriptions, reviews, etc) from the old site to create the new product pages. After some frustration and research I am finding the old pages are still indexed and possibly causing a duplicate content issue. Now, I gather there is supposedly no "penalty", per se, for duplicate content but a page or site will simply not show in the SERPs. Understandable and this seems to be the case. We also sell a lot of product wholesale and it turns out many dealers are using the same descriptions we have (and have had) on our site. Some are much larger than us so I'd expect to be pushed down a bit but we don't even show in the top 10 pages...for our own product. How long will it take for Google to drop the old and rank the new as unique? I have re-written some pages but much is technical specifications and tough to paraphrase or re-write. I know I could do this in Search Console but I don't have access to the old site any longer. Should I remove the 301s a few at a time and see if the old get dropped faster? Maybe just re-write ALL the content? Wait? As a site note, I'm also on a Drupal CMS with a Shopify ecommerce module so maybe the shop.mysite.com vs mysite.com is throwing it off with the products(?) - (again the Drupal non-product AND category pages rank fine). Thoughts on this would be much appreciated. Thx so much!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | mcampanaro0 -
Google cache from my website give another website
Hello, Some time ago, I already asked a question here because my homepage disappeared from Google for our main keyword. One of the problems that we showing up was the Google cache. If you look to the cache of the website www.conseilfleursdebach.fr, you see that it show the content of www.lesfleursdebach.be. It's both our website, but one is focus on France and the other one on Belgium. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.conseilfleursdebach.fr&oq=cach&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j69i57j0j69i60j0l2.1374j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 Before, there were flags on the page to go to the other country, but in the meantime I removed all links from the .fr to the .be and opposite. This is ongoing since January. Who has an idea of what can cause this and most of all, what do do? Kind regards, Tine
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | TineDL1 -
SEO impact difference between a URL Rewrite and 301 redirect
Hi guys and girls! Just putting a new site live, we changed the URL from one thing to another and I created a 301 file redirecting the urls like for like. The developer installing it has created a different file with columns like: RewriteRule ^page/ http://www.site/page [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^/page/ http://www.site/page [R=301,L] What's the difference? The page redirects but is there a difference between the 301 redirect and this URL rewrite in terms of SEO and link value?
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | shloy23-2945840 -
Dates in the URLs for a "hot" content website (tipping service)
Hi, I'm planning to build a website that will present games previews for different sports. I think that the date should be included in the URL as the content will be valuable until the kick off f the game. So first i want to know if this is the right approach and second the URL structure i have imagined is /tips/sport/competition/year/month/day Ex : /tips/football/premier_league/2013/11/05 Is this a good structure ? Guillaume.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | betadvisor0 -
Lots of incorrect urls indexed - Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site
Hi, Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Basically, our rankings and traffic etc have been dropping massively recently google sent us a message stating " Googlebot found an extremely high number of URLs on your site". This first highligted us to the problem that for some reason our eCommerce site has recently generated loads (potentially thousands) of rubbish urls hencing giving us duplication everywhere which google is obviously penalizing us with in the terms of rankings dropping etc etc. Our developer is trying to find the route cause of this but my concern is, How do we get rid of all these bogus urls ?. If we use GWT to remove urls it's going to take years. We have just amended our Robot txt file to exclude them going forward but they have already been indexed so I need to know do we put a redirect 301 on them and also a HTTP Code 404 to tell google they don't exist ? Do we also put a No Index on the pages or what . what is the best solution .? A couple of example of our problems are here : In Google type - site:bestathire.co.uk inurl:"br" You will see 107 results. This is one of many lot we need to get rid of. Also - site:bestathire.co.uk intitle:"All items from this hire company" Shows 25,300 indexed pages we need to get rid of Another thing to help tidy this mess up going forward is to improve on our pagination work. Our Site uses Rel=Next and Rel=Prev but no concanical. As a belt and braces approach, should we also put concanical tags on our category pages whereby there are more than 1 page. I was thinking of doing it on the Page 1 of our most important pages or the View all or both ?. Whats' the general consenus ? Any advice on both points greatly appreciated? thanks Sarah.
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | SarahCollins0 -
Should subdomains be avoided for brand new websites?
When creating a brand new website, will setting it up as a subdomain provide ranking benefits? I understand that if it's an existing domain, it's better to use a subfolder because a subdomain is treated as a different domain. But is there any reason not to start a website with the keyword in the subdomain? For example: keyword.domain.com The SERP's are dominated by websites which contain some variation of the head term, but the disadvantage of doing a similar this is your website looks very similar. Thanks!
Intermediate & Advanced SEO | | JonDavies540