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Hi John,

Thanks for the answer. Just a quick one, will this lose the previous records?

Cheers

Hi John,

Thank you for getting in touch. I had analytics set up before the migration and I have kept the same tracking code for the new site. I figured that it would be ok as the domain and URL's are exactly the same apart from the fact that the old ones had .aspx on the end.

I migrated a website from a .aspx to a .php and hence had to 301 all the old urls to the new php ones. It's been months after and I'm not seeing any of the php pages showing results but I'm still getting results from the old .aspx pages.

Has any one had any experience with this issue or knows what to do?

Many thanks,

Hi Ryan,

Even in WordPress Multisite?

I love a good White Board Friday thank you, I will definitely give that a watch.

Tom

Hi Guys,

Thank you for your quick response. If I did use WordPress Multi-Site to build the subfolders for the different countries, would they pass "link juice" between them?

Hi, My company have offices around the world. However they also provide different services and products depending on the region. For example our offices in the USA, UK and Australia all provide different services to each other.

My question is, how do I set up my WordPress website up to cater for these different countries and services?

I think the simple answer would be to build a separate website for each, but this would be too costly and we don't have the resources to maintain all three.

Many thanks for your time,

Tom

I'm asking this question due to the following scenario:

When we have videos produced by Third Party video companies they upload the video to their YouTube account before us (the customer), has chance to upload it to ours.

If this was an article that was uploaded to the web then the website uploading it first would be classed as the original piece and all other website uploading the article would be considered duplicates and not rank (As I believe).

Hence my question, does YouTube work in the same way and hence our videos when searched in YouTube be secondary to our Third Party video companies as they are posting them first?

Regards,

Tom

Many thanks guys, I think I get what your saying.

From what I understand I could just do this...

I build up a new wordpress website on a different hosting account. Within the .htaccess file I create my 301's. Then once I point the domain from the old hosting and website to my new one everything should work fine?

Again many thanks for your help.

Hi guys,

Thanks for replying. Wondered however how you would get both the files to sit on the same hosting?

I know that windows can take both PHP and ASP.NET but I have heard that windows hosting for WordPress is not as straight forward as Linux. Is it still possible to perform 301 redirects for both sets of files in Linux?

Regards,

Tom

Hi all,

I'm trying to migrate my current website over to wordpress however my current website is ASP.NET and obviously Wordpress uses PHP.

Is it possible to perform a 301 redirect from a asp.net to a php?

Or do you need to convert the asp.net language into php?

Or something different?

I welcome your thoughts?

Regards,

Thomas Rochford

I would like to migrate my current website, which is asp.net, to WordPress. However the current asp.net is sitting on hosting which is windows based and WordPress isn't very compatible.

Do I need to migrate hosting to a Linux based hosting provider? But if I do can I still migrate the asp.net files from my current website so I can 301 redirect?

Any help on this would be great.

Regards,

Tom

I think that WordPress.com is banned, but are websites that are created by WordPress get banned?

Thanks EGOL, Shane and Peter.

The good news is that we own the domain, what isn't so great is that we don't own the hosting (Big lesson learned here).

Some how I need to take control of the hosting.

Thanks everyone for all your help, I'm truly grateful.

Tom

Thanks Shane, that's great advice.

From what I understand to be able to implement 301 redirects I need access to the .htaccess file. Would domain control rights / name servers provide me with this?

I want to come away from our third party web developer and use a new website with different web developers, however the web developer wont 301 redirect the old url's to the new ones. Is he required to do this by law? Is there away of doing the 301 redirects without him?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,Tom

Basically my current web developer is not providing me with what a modern website should need to fully utilize online marketing and SEO in terms of blogging, social media widgets, e-commerce and so on. Because of this I have thought of moving to a wordpress.org website run and built by myself.

Is this a good idea?

What is the best way to migrate and save existing authority (Re-directs etc)?

Is there any potential risks or problems that I could encounter that aren't immediate obvious?

Many thanks!

Tom

Unfortunately the site is not wordpress so I dont think I'lll be able to use WPMU DEV for my site.

Thanks

Basically my webdeveloper has suggested that instead of using a subfolder to create an English and Korean version of the site I should create two different websites and then link them both together to provide the page in English, or in Korean, which ever the case may be.

My immediate reaction is that search engines may perceive this kind of linking to be manipulative, as you can imagine there will be a lot of links (One for every page).

Do you think it is OK to create two webpages and link them together page by page?

Or do you think that the site will get penalized by search engines for link farming or link exchanging.

Regards,

Tom

Thanks Lynn,

I appreciate this is a tough question to answer but I think you have a given me some great information.

Much appreciated,

Tom

Hi everyone,

Many thanks for replying to my concern.

However, not to be ungrateful, but rather than knowing which solution would be best, What I'm really looking for is how you set up the subfolders as I'm really unsure.

My third party web developers is telling me to just type in "en-us" (if I was to create an American page) into a field called folder everytime I build a "hidden page".

This doesn't seem right to me, I'm expecting that the developer needs to create these subfolders to which I can then work in. But to do it this way my web developer is telling me that I would need to create a ccTLD for each region and then 301 redirect them to a hidden page on the "main website".

This just doesn't seem logical, so if you could shed any light on this I would be really grateful.

Many thanks,

Tom

Sorry not TLC's I meant TLD's

Hi Lynn, thanks for your post.

I highly agree with you that TLC's are the best option when it comes to SEO. Unfortunately, our company don't have the resources to build up each individual site, and hence would look to benefit from consolidating all of our links using one website.

Many thanks,

Tom

Hi Andie, I hope your right about their miscommunication.

I just wanted to pick up on when you said "While there is likely to be development work for these country specific sites", what kind of developments would need to be made?

Many thanks

Hi, Please can you help, I believe I may have been given false information about the way sub folders are added to a site.

My company are a global company and we would like to start targeting individual country's more effectively with the use of sub folders using our existing domain.

However, I have been told by our external web development company that in order to do this we need to create separate websites (eg, www.mycompany.de, www.mycompany.en etc) and then re-direct them to folders within the .com site.

Is this the correct way to produce sub folders? If not how is it done?

I'm sure that this would be an incredibly expensive venture for us, but yet an incredible profitable one for them.

A while ago I altered some of the URL's of my website. Google now thinks that I have two duplicate pages (duplicate content), I have asked my third party web developers (Who use .NET and a custom built CMS system) to simply 301 redirect the old URL to the other.

However, my web developers say the following:

"Solving the problems by 301 permanent re directs are out of the question as this would create infinite loops. Likely to bring down our server."

They also wont do a canonical, as they say there is only one page (but two URLs)

Firstly, has any one heard of this before and do they think this is true?

Also, does anyone have an alternative method of getting rid of the old URL?

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Hi Irving,

Many thanks for the advice. The thing that I'm most confused about is that my web developer (whom is third party) is telling me that this is the same page but two different URLs, Hence I can't add code or alter one as they are the same thing.

I looked into removing the cache in Google, but I can't do this as they ask you to type a word that is present in your new page but not in your old one, but obviously I cant do this as its "apparently" one page.

Do you think that there may be an issue with my web developers CMS system?

Again, many thanks

Hi Sean,

Am I right by thinking that it should then be possible for my web developer to redirect the old URL to the new one?

In your opinion is .NET an old CMS system? If so do you think it is worth updating?

Many thanks,

Hi Jo,

Thanks for getting back to me. I'm not using word press, my company uses a third party web developer. I have already requested the web developer to do a 301 redirect and this is what they said:

"Solving the problems by 301 permanent re directs are out of the question as this would create infinite loops. Likely to bring down our server."

What do you think to this reply from my web developer? I personally have never heard anything like this before.

Yes, we are based in Huddersfield. I guess that makes us neighbors 

Again, many thanks for your advice.

Tom

Hi, I physically changed my URL as something else and now Google thinks I have two duplicate pages (I know not to do this in the future).

e.g. I had www.example.com/i-like-seo.aspx

and changed it to:

www.example.com/i-love-seo.aspx

Google sees this as two pages now and my CMS system is only showing one page (The new page) Also, SEOMOZ is seeing two pages and further more sees them both as having two different amounts of inbound links?

When I change content on the new url page, the old url page also updates. I'm really confused as to what has happened here and don't know how to get rid of the old url so that Google doesn't think that I have duplicate content.

Any help to what has happened or how to fix it would be so helpful and appreciated.

Many thanks.

Thank you very much for taking the time to answer this question. You have pretty much confirmed everything I thought. I will definitely be taking your advice going forward.

Again, many thanks for the help.

My web developer is telling me that it is best practice for SEO to place your keyword in your URL twice. For Example: www.example.com/testing-once/testing-once.aspx. I'm sure that this is not true, could you please help?