Many errors from previous ecommerce site. Domain is now just a localized wordpress site.
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Many errors from previous ecommerce site. Do I need to redirect every single page that no longer exists at this domain? loveyourcabinets.com used to be loveyourkitchenandbath.com but we have since changed course. We want loveyourkitchenandbath.com to be our local site on Long Island and NYC. Loveyourcabinets.com will be an ecommerce project that I'll be revamping in the coming months. I think Moz as well as Google still has all of the old ecommerce pages indexed. And of course, Moz is shooting me a bunch of error all regarding pages from the ecommerce site that used to be on loveyourkitchenandbath.com. Any thoughts? Commentary? Thx
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Hey There,
Without diving too deep into your particular situation I can say:
I'd redirect and relevant pages to new relevant pages if applicable. Beyond that I'd either redirect to corresponding categories, or just to the home page with possibly some sort of explanation on the change. As I said I'm not totally familiar with the change from cabinets to bathrooms so it'd be up to you to decide how to explain that to your customers.
Honestly, I personally wouldn't let old URLs with links and traffic 404 on the old domain. I'd redirect them somewhere hopefully relevant. If not, the homepage works but I wouldn't expect a lot of value there anyway if the traffic/links aren't relevant.
As far as the Moz errors I can see why the crawler is confused with all of this jumping around. That will continue until you decide on a single domain.
I guess I'm just not understanding what your plan is. If you're redeveloping this old URL then just leave the URLs for now and build them out later. If you're consolidating onto a new domain and abandoning the old then redirect relevant pages to new pages and/or the homepage if nothing else. If there are no links or traffic then I wouldn't worry about it much at all anyway.
Hope that helps and GL!
Jacob
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Redirect all the pages from the old domain to the home/index of the new site is not a good idea, I think. You have to point (with 301) every single old url to the new ones where the users can find a similar (if not equal) content. Through GWT you can look at which old pages are still getting external links and start redirecting those. In this case, I don't understand why use two different domains. If you have a "brand" why not offer to users the chance to view the local store in NYC and also buy directly online (store.yourbrand.ext)?
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