Deleting Blog posts

[edward-may]

Hi Guys,

I'm doing some content auditing myself - and making sure that the content I'm writing is more in-depth.  So bascially I found a few blog posts that were not actually blogs and actually could be moved to my main site content.  So I went ahead and cleaned up the blog post article - I deleted it and reposted it with the new fresh content to my main site.  My question is - after I deleted the post - how do I remove the blog post for the Index? Or does this just remove itself after i have deleted the post.  Another question I had - after I removed the post - I was then thinking, should I have redirected traffic to the new page?

[edward-may]

Hi Bob - no worries at all! I will definitely be asking more SEO guestions! But thanks for your response once again

[Bob_van_Biezen]

Hi Justin,

I’m afraid I can’t help you with this one since it got a lot to do with how your website is structured and how you’re setting up your redirects at this moment. I would ask a programmer for advise to provide you with the best solution.

Of course I would love to help you with any more SEO questions!

Good luck!

[edward-may]

Hi Bob,

I have another question for you with regards to this:

I have just move Phone Psychic Readings from the blog - over to the main site.  However there seems to be an issue that I'm still having and trying to clean up.  I'm finding backlinks that are linking to each other of my 3 domains.  For eg: **co.nz links many pages to com.au **

I'm currently trying to clean this up at the moment - however while im in the process of this - I find myself question when I'm creating the 301 redirects from the blog - but lets say I'm on the blog for zenoy.co.nz/blog/oldblogpost and when I click on a blog post - it redirects me to zenory.com/newarticlepost - because I have redirected it to .com - how can I redirect and make sure is going back to the right domain name to save myself from having to show this cross backlinks?

Would gratefully appreciate any assistance on this tricky situation.

Cheers

Just

[edward-may]

Thanks Bob, this is great advice! Really appreciate it!!

[Bob_van_Biezen]

Hi Justin,

I just checked out your new design and it looks great!

About your question, if the 301 redirect is set up correct it will be processed first so every bot or visitor will get redirected and won’t see the old page and it can’t cause duplicated content. Take in consideration that keeping a page live will prohibit you from using this URL anywhere else on the website. If you wish to keep the pages in your backend through I would set the pages to concept.

Good luck!

[edward-may]

Hi Bob

Thanks again for your help! You have been great in offering me clear and direct instructions!  I just implemented my new design for zenory.com and now working on better structuring the site for SEO and making sure to write more unique relevant content while keeping everything internal and externally clean.

A question I do have - I use SEO yoast for the blog - while I posted the content from the blog post to the main site - If I left the page running live and created a 301 redirect "literally thinking" would this create duplicate content? I'm thinking from a new person who has never done this before that both pages will be published however one is treated a a 301 redirect so I'm assuming even though the page hasn't been deleted but now is using the 301 redirect this won't be seen by google as duplicates.  Am I right in thinking this?

[Bob_van_Biezen]

Hi Justin,

You're thinking in the right direction. You should indeed 301 redirect the old URL. This helps you transfer your linkjuice to the new page and it gives searches engines a clue about were the content went. This way they will drop the old listing faster and pick up the new URL earlier.

In case you’re not redirecting, 404 URL’s will drop from the SERP’s over time and the new ones will be picked up. A good sitemap and internal URL structure can help speed up the indexation.

Good luck, sounds like you’re making some real progress last few weeks!