Acquisition of a new site in the same field.
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Hello, I work with SEO for a company that just bought another in the same field. What is better to do? Just a 301 domain? Make 301 per page for a related page (more than 10,000 URLs, i'am afraid that this may be interpreted as blackhat ) or make crossdomain canonical tag urls related to (I believe this is not good, because the pages are not fully equal).
thank's
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I saw that in WEBMASTERTOOLS has an option to change address. There is a manual for change of address.
In the case also for 301 redirection:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=pt-BR&answer=93633
One of the guidelines is:
You're joining two sites and want to make sure that the links to outdated URLs are redirected to the correct pages.
So I think that is okay to do multiple 301, since the very google guides.
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In order to fully answer that question some more data is needed to provide with an educated answer. I had the same thing and I decided to use the additional site as a nother source of traffic and lead source provider. You can still use the relevance for seo but I would not redirect the whole pages. Expect them to lose their importance if you refer all.
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