Hey I'm transition to a new site and wondering what the effects are going to be so if someone can please help me out I'll greatly appreciate it.
How will transitioning affect:
- SEO/Search Engine Transitioning
- Existing Links
- If I use 301 redirects as planned will the new content eventually take over the old or will they be side by side?
- Is there any way to lessen the negative effects of transitioning?
Any information will be great. Thanks! If you redirect your old domain to the new one using 301 redirect, all the value of the old domain and also backlinks will be redirected to new one. It means you loss nothing if you use 301 redirect. So you can do it and without any worrying about it. Make sure to test immediately after implementing a 301 re-direct. If there's anything wrong you need to correct it before the search engines get to it. You also want to be careful about specifying (or not) the www prefix.
Also, you should leave the old domain name and files in place for a few weeks to give the major search engines time to catch on to the changes. Thanks everyone for the help. I recently discovered this on alexa.com:
"When we merge statistics and listings, one site must be marked as the primary domain. Only primary domains carry their traffic history and Traffic Rank into a merged listing, although going forward both site primary and secondary domains contribute whatever data we observe for them to the same listing. In the case of redirected sites, the destination domain will be the primary domain for the listing."
Can anyone explain what this means? Also how can this benefit my merger? Thanks again! make sure you test everything before doing the transfer.
reduce downtime to minimum possible. since you are changing to new domain name, there will be some seo effect for sure.
simply because domain name carries keyword, and good keywor domain helps ranking especially in yahoo search engines.
How will transitioning affect:
- SEO/Search Engine Transitioning
- Existing Links
- If I use 301 redirects as planned will the new content eventually take over the old or will they be side by side?
- Is there any way to lessen the negative effects of transitioning?
Any information will be great. Thanks! If you redirect your old domain to the new one using 301 redirect, all the value of the old domain and also backlinks will be redirected to new one. It means you loss nothing if you use 301 redirect. So you can do it and without any worrying about it. Make sure to test immediately after implementing a 301 re-direct. If there's anything wrong you need to correct it before the search engines get to it. You also want to be careful about specifying (or not) the www prefix.
Also, you should leave the old domain name and files in place for a few weeks to give the major search engines time to catch on to the changes. Thanks everyone for the help. I recently discovered this on alexa.com:
"When we merge statistics and listings, one site must be marked as the primary domain. Only primary domains carry their traffic history and Traffic Rank into a merged listing, although going forward both site primary and secondary domains contribute whatever data we observe for them to the same listing. In the case of redirected sites, the destination domain will be the primary domain for the listing."
Can anyone explain what this means? Also how can this benefit my merger? Thanks again! make sure you test everything before doing the transfer.
reduce downtime to minimum possible. since you are changing to new domain name, there will be some seo effect for sure.
simply because domain name carries keyword, and good keywor domain helps ranking especially in yahoo search engines.