I have an authority site with 90K visits per month. Now I have to change from non www to www. Will incur in any SEO issues while doing that? Could you please advice me on the best steps to follow to do this? Thank you very much!
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Because I want to increase site speed, Siteground (my hosting) suggested I use Cloudflare Plus which needs my site to have www in order to work. I'm also using a cloud hosting.
Im a bit scared of doing this, and thus decided to come to the community. I used MOZ for over 6 months now and love the tool.
Please help me make the best possible decisions and what steps to follow. It would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
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Glad you've got the load time down, if you've get any benefits in terms of rankings/conversion from the change i'd love to hear about it.
Best of luck with the site.
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I did not move it and i will NEVER do it :))))) I have 90k monthly visits and I want to have over 100k rather than lose them!
In the end I stopped the Cloudflare + Siteground + SuperCacher trilogy and activated MAXCDN + W3C plugin. I still have cloud hosting account on Siteground and thats just fine.
My site went from loading in 7s to loading under 2s almost immediately! I figure a couple of plugins needed tweaking too.
I will use this community more often as is made of great people willing to help and thus I will do the same. Cheers guys! Lets go get some more 1st positions!
Ciao!
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I just contacted Siteground to let them know. Thank you Thomas!!!
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This may help you: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200169886-Can-I-use-a-naked-domain-no-www-with-CloudFlare-
It looks as if you may be not need to migrate the domain to the www. version after all.
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Thank you Dirk, I'll look into that now. Cheers!
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Basically you have to make sure that you properly set up the redirects & that you update your sitemap and internal links (screaming frog can help for this). Make sure that you test properly before going making the change.
It's a simple case of "site migration" - so you might check this article which covers all topics related to a migration/change of url's (just skip the parts that are not applicable for your case).
Dirk
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