Moving content to a new domain

[JimmyFritz]

I need to move a lot of content with podcasts and show notes to a new domain. Instead of doing redirects, we want to keep some content on the current domain to retain the link value. There are business reason to keep content on both websites but the new website will primarily be used for SEO moving forward.If we keep the audio portion of the podcast on the old website and move the show notes and the audio portion of the podcast to the new website, is there any issues with duplicate content?Long-term, I presume Google will re-index the old and the new pages, thus no duplicate content, but I want to make sure I'm not missing anything. I was planning to fetch pages in Search Console as we migrate content.Thanks for your help!

[JackSaville]

Hi all,

I agree with Thomas - if you don't 301 redirect the old domain then your new domain will likely have very few backlinks, and it will take some time for the new one to rank.

If you need to keep the old domain, is it worth just keeping all content on the old domain?

thanks

[BlueprintMarketing]

If you are embedding the Audio content through an I-frame or Oembed as long as it's not on the other domain as well it will not be duplicate content.

What I would be more worried about is if you have a large number of backlinks pointing to the old domain and you do not want to redirect to the new domain but you want to use the new domain for SEO purposes that will most likely Take a long time before the new domain starts to rank and you will have to do a lot of optimization to the new domain to allow it to rank.

Use a tool like copyscape.com to check if you have duplicate content it will tell you pretty clearly whether or not you are still sharing duplicate content between the two domains.

I hope this is of help,

Tom