Tips do join 2 domains
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I would like to move all my old domain content ( dicasdogoogle.com.br) with more than 1200 tutorials pages to a new one (seomartin.com)... and then unify them.
I´m using wordpress in both but the permalinks are different... Any tips 4 me folks?
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thanks Dan, really helpful !-)
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Hey There
OK, this should be pretty straightforward then;
1. Create a new section for the new blog where the old content will go (basically a page that's a blog "homepage").
2. Export all the old content from the old blog using WordPress' export function.
3. Have your redirects ready to go - some people like using just the .htaccess file, some prefer the redirection plugin. Either way, you'll want to maintain ownership of course of the old domain name. Individually redirect every piece of content to it's new home.
4. Import the posts to the new blog.
5. Put the redirects in place. Obviously check everything really well.
I wouldn't use the move domain tool in WMT since you're not doing a direct 1:1 move.
Hope that helps!
-Dan
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thanks Dan,
- are you moving just blog posts, or are you moving pages too?
Only Blog Posts - when you say "combine" do you mean put the old blog posts into the new blog section on the new site?
YEAP! - you're going to maintain the same theme as is currently on SEO Martin?
YEAP! - how do you want this transition to appear publicly? Just that one day, all of a sudden both sites will be combined? Or are you going to do it in stages?
The fastest as possible, (no stages) - what are you going to do with the old domain? redirect the old URLs to the corresponding new content?
I don´t know... I can redirect posts urls to the new site or just use as second domain, in this case i´m wondering to redirect the same way because permalinks are little bit different
I also know google webmaster tool have a "move your domain" section... but i´cant find information if I should use that before or after the "move" ... thanks Dan !-)
- are you moving just blog posts, or are you moving pages too?
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This really depends on the specifics of what you need to do. In other words;
- are you moving just blog posts, or are you moving pages too?
- when you say "combine" do you mean put the old blog posts into the new blog section on the new site?
- you're going to maintain the same theme as is currently on SEO Martin?
- how do you want this transition to appear publicly? Just that one day, all of a sudden both sites will be combined? Or are you going to do it in stages?
- what are you going to do with the old domain? redirect the old URLs to the corresponding new content?
Whatever the case, you'll probably need some arrangement of these;
If you want to leave some more specifics, myself or someone else could chime in with more info.
I also wouldn't rule out developing the whole thing on a dev server first.
-Dan
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