Highly ranked pages to new domain?
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Hi everyone!
We are ranked #1 for about 30 product pages at www.oldsite.com/product1 and we are wanting to move about 30 of those pages to a new site www.newsite.com/product1 (new domain and hosting - which we own).
What is the best way to do this? I'm confused if you recreate those pages on the new domain vs. ftp move them, 301 re-directs, etc.
Looking for the things we must do and the sequence to do it all, etc.
Thanks so much!
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Well, since the platforms are both woocommerce, you woudln't have to "copy it twice". That would be applicable if you were changing the environments.
Just make sure that you create exact copy of pages - URLs, meta tags, images, alt tags, all text etc etc.
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Thanks Dmitrli,
Both sites are woocommerce.
When you say copy do I just copy all text, images, attachments, etc. and add as a new product and let run?
Why would you need to then move all content after if I have already copied it all in step 1?
Thanks!
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Hi there.
First, if you are ranking #1 already, and want to move those pages, you must have great reasons. There is a chance, quite a high one, you won't be ranking #1, or even potentially even on the first page for some time.
Considering that you must move these pages, I'd just create exact copy of those pages, literally. Just copy paste onto the new domain, 301 those links, and let new domain sit for a while with these pages, make sure that they are ranking etc. After that you can move all content - text, images, metas etc into new platform (if let's say you are switching from wordpress to magento or something like that).
Hope this helps.
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