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Hello everyone,

One of my clients is undergoing a major rebrand, which will require some substantial changes to their domain / URL structure. Primarily, we're going to:

• Move from a high-ish DA site to a low DA site
• Change the subdomain URL structure (more on that below)
• Update the content (copy, design, structure) on www. site to match the new brand
• The content on the subdomains should remain the same
• 301 redirect all pages from old site to new site where applicable

The current site architecture makes great use of subdomains, which are also going to be changing in terms of name. So, we're moving from oldsubdomain.olddomain.com to newsubdomain.newdomain.com (and not oldsubdomian.olddomain.com to oldsubdomain.olddomain.com). The content / structure of these pages is going to change minimally.

We understand that we're going to take an SEO hit overall, but are there things we can do to minimize this hit? Anyway we can 'estimate' the hit? Anyway we can educate our client to as to what to expect beyond (it is going to be bad…).

Please let me know.

Thanks!

Hi Robert,

I'm attaching a redacted screenshot of the GA view I'm using.

Please let me know if you see anything!

Best,

Matt

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Hi Robert,

I'm going to Traffic Sources - Search - Organic. The primary dimension is Keyword. There is no secondary dimension.  Underneath Keyword column, URLs are appearing as top keywords. There are keywords mixed in, but they occur later.

Please let me know.

Thanks.

In my Google Analytics, the top keywords for Organic Search are suddenyl displaying full URLs. For example, now the third and fourth keywords are http://www.domain.com/highly-specific-URL.

These have all started recently around the same day, July 12th. I've checked back, and we've made no internal changes to the site around that time that could affect this.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

P.S. It might be related to rich snippets, but I cannot tell at this point.