Have You 301 Redirected Domain A to Domain B ?
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I only have two questions....
Approximately when did you do it (year is close enough)?
Did the rankings of Domain B go up?
Any other information that you care to share will be appreciated.
Thank you!
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This tool can help store owners to move one cart to other cart with keeping all current SEO ranking you have built up for years. It supports to migrate 301 SEO URLs of categories and products, so I think the first thing you can do is keep ranking of domain B. After that, you can rise it. http://litextension.com/seo-urls-migrations-plugins.html
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Thank you, Nico. I appreciate your sharing these details.
Congratulations on a good transfer.
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I did a migration in December 2014. The old domain was <old_brand>.TLD . It moved completely to magazine.<new_brand>.TLD which was previously empty - for non-SEO reasons mostly. (So no moving via WMT).</new_brand></old_brand>
Results was a somewhat reduced traffic for the first ~1 month or so. Afterwards the rankings transferred well to the new page. So, yeah - it definitely does help rank up and relatively fast. Note: I redirected each article to its equivalent - the structure was not changed in any noteworthy way, just the (sub-)domain. The old domain was ~11 months old, had close to 4-digit traffic per day and had hardly any external links at that point - those it had were set without request.
What I find funny: the URLs of the old domain are STILL within google's index, despite 301-redirecting to the new domain.
Nico
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Thanks for the extra details and your opinion.
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Ohh, Thanks for you. Moz page and community is a great tool.
I am learning SEO from slow level, basic level xd and doubly hard for me because I am from Spain, I understand english a little but not perfect.
Sorry for my English.
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I think you're absolutely right about link assets being the only value that would pass through. Essentially, everything else (content, on-page assets, etc.) is all gone, so it stands to reason that Domain B wouldn't get any value from those elements.
I should've mentioned that Domain B was previously not an active domain. It was purchased and then immediately replaced Domain A. So it's a slightly different situation than you asked about, but nonetheless, a situation that does happen and should be considered anytime domain migrations are on the table.
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Thanks for that report Logan. In that situation, I would have expected great results.
Just speculating here.....
If Domain A's rankings are held up by domain authority, content, on-page assets, navigational queries and domain type-ins, then that stuff will not pass to Domain B through a simple redirect.
The only thing that I believe will pass is link assets.... and Domain B might move up a position in SERPs where Domain A used to rank above it.
Do you (or anyone else) have thoughts about that?
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EGOL,
I was part of a domain migration like this about a year and a half ago. In this case, Domain A was very old, we're talkin late 90's, and Domain B was brand new. Needless to say, the results were not optimal.
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Thanks, that is very helpful to know. Nice work!
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Thanks for your thoughts.
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Hi EGOL,
Yes I've done several 301's.
Many of them were over 2 years. And yes, they impacted on rankings. (even tough it's hard to say that was exactly because of the 301 because SEO actions were done too).Hope it helps.
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Hello, I try to help.
For me, webmaster tools is a good tool for tracking free 301 redirects is best to test one by one to make sure the redirect is well done.
It depends on each URL, but in some cases in a month or two no longer appears as tracking error webmaster tools.
On the other issue, I have read in some articles that the value of the domain to be transferred by 85% to 90% B domain to make 301 redirection.
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