What are the Best Practices for moving a blog from subdomain to domain/subcategory?

[NTM]

Howdy SEOmoz fans! (couldn't resist).

I'm moving a wordpress blog from blog.domain.com to domain.com/blog.

Trying to do it right the first time and cover all my bases.

Issues I'm trying to handle correctly, in varying degrees of importance:

• External LInks

• Internal Links

• Google Friendly Traffic Routing in a dynamic environment (wordpress, 301, .htaccess, etc.)

Thanks so much for any and all input!

[NTM]

Yeah, sorry didn't know to mark it as answered. But we've redirected successfully, thanks!

[NTM]

Thanks!

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Melissa,

Did John's answer answer your question, or are you still looking for some more advice?

[john4math]

If you're going to do it in phases, I'd do it as follows:

1. Set up domain.com/blog, and make sure it's serving pages correctly.  So now, both blog.domain.com and domain.com/blog would be serving duplicate content for the time being.
2. Set up all pages in blog.domain.com to 301 redirect to their counterparts under domain.com/blog.
3. Update all links in my site pointing to blog.domain.com pages to point to their counterparts under domain.com/blog.

As long as there isn't a lot of lag between steps 1 & 2 I wouldn't worry too much about duplicate content, as there won't be links pointing to your blog under domain.com/blog, so Google likely won't even find it.