Redirect domain without losing SEO benefit,
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Now my website need to change to new domain, Since we start this website we have the landing page for sale and blog. So I need to redirect both a.com to b.com and a.com/blog/ to b.com/blog/ and I need to do by these step to keeping the benefit of SEO.
For a.com
- Preparing the new site by duplicate the information of old site. (Get them no-index, no-follow)
- Export all URL to excel files by Xenu then look up together for re-check the information are they the same or not, I think we can check that if we used the same title.
- Redirect together by 301 codes.
- Get google bot know by submission to Google Webmaster Tools (Google Search Console)
For a.com/blog/
- Since we used wordpress to be our blog CMS, So we need to install wordpress CMS to b.com/blog/, Then backup SQL from PHP C Panel & files.
- Re-upload that SQL database & files to new server.
- Export all URL contain /blog/ then look up together by excel again.
- Redirect by 301 codes.
So for this method what am i wrong or need to change please suggestion me. According to this is the technical SEO stuff that I never done before. After we redirect the old domain to new domain how much time Google will take for checking and give the benefit for us with the same benefit. And what we have to do for Moz.org to checking our issues & ranking.
Plus - what can we do for no-index, no-follow page that belong to a.com because my website also doing these page as well for each marketing campaign to avoid Google to index.
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Thanks guys for respond my QA, Otherwise when we redirect the URL permanent move (301), What we need to do with Moz create a new campaign Or just change the domain ?
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Hi there
This sounds relatively good to me. I would check the following:
Web Site Migration Guide - Tips For SEOs (Moz)
Move your site (Google)Both of these resources will help you, step by step, from a best practices and SEO aspect. I'd also make sure you do a thorough backlink audit, updating backlinks you wish to keep and removing/disavowing those you wish not to or are irrelevant to your website.
If you properly redirect and map your old domain to new, as well as notify Google the site has moved, and update your sitemap accordingly along with your internal links, then Google will notice this change as soon as they crawl your website.
Hope this helps! Good luck!
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