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Thank you for your patience in explaining it! I really appreciate your time.

Ok, I think I understand. But let me spell it out to make sure.

old site home page = www.mysite.com

new site home page = www.mysite.com

No 301 redirect necessary for this page.

old site services page = www.mysite.com/services

new site services page = www.mysite.com/what-i-offer

301 redirect is necessary for this page from the old "services" page to the new "what-i-offer" page.

Correct?

Ah, I got it. My URL is staying the same, so I do NOT need to do ANY 301 redirects.

Right?

Hi Donnie,

Thanks for your response. So, are you saying that I won't need a redirect from my old home page to my new homepage, but I should create 301 redirects from my old "internal" pages to my new "internal" pages?

If I have old internal pages that I am not replicating on the new site, should I include a redirect for those to the new homepage?

Thank you.

Linda

Hello everyone,

I am in the process of having my consulting website redesigned and have a question about how this may impact SEO. I will be using the same URL as I did before, just simply replacing an old website with a new website.

Obviously the URL structure will change slightly since I am changing navigation names. Page titles will also change.

Do I need to do anything special to ensure that all of the pages from the old website are redirected to the new website?

For example, should I do a page level redirect for each page that remains the same? So that the old "services" page is pointed to the new "services" page?

Or can I simply do a redirect at the index page level?

Thank you in advance for any advice!

Best,

Linda

Hi LittleBigman,

Congratulations on getting some good organic traffic to your site. That's a great achievement for sure.

There are so many different approaches to improving website conversion rate and so much depends on the site itself and the primary business goals. What is your website goal(s)? Could you share your website URL?

Cheers,

Linda

Yes, thank you, Marcus. It's really helpful to learn more about the process and thinking behind the process for developing content that includes long tail search terms that will be relevant to readers and helpful for ranking. Cheers!

Hey George. Thanks for cluing me into the Holiday Express reference. Very funny. And yes, you were able to help me out.

Thank you!

Hi George,

Thank you for your response. No, not too technical at all. I follow what you're saying. I'll pass this information on to my client and hopefully it's a relatively easy fix.

If anyone else has any additional information about implementing the solution specifically for Ruby code, I would appreciate it.

Thank you!

Linda

P.S. George, I'm curious, what is the connection between being a Ruby developer and staying at a Holiday Inn Express?

Hi everyone,

I'm new to the Moz community, but really loving it. I'm hoping some of you more experienced experts may be able to answer what is probably a pretty basic question.

I'm working for a non-profit client and I used the SEOMOZ tool to run a report on their site errors. I learned that the website has 5,432 duplicate page titles. They had their website redesigned last year before I started working with them and it appears that the developers didn't take into a account the need to provide unique page title names to each page.

While it may make sense to go in to add custom page titles to a handful of the pages for the site, the vast majority of the pages are allocated to products (e-commerce). Is there a script that the developers could add that would automatically add page unique page titles based on say, the title of the product?

Here are a few URLs to help you get a sense of what we're dealing with.

homepage: www.creativityexplored.org

example level two page: http://www.creativityexplored.org/artists/douglas-sheran

example product page: http://www.creativityexplored.org/shop/original-art/prints/2776/profile-of-a-lady

Thank you so much for any advice you can offer.

Best,

Linda

Hi LittleBigman,

Congratulations on getting some good organic traffic to your site. That's a great achievement for sure.

There are so many different approaches to improving website conversion rate and so much depends on the site itself and the primary business goals. What is your website goal(s)? Could you share your website URL?

Cheers,

Linda

Ok, I think I understand. But let me spell it out to make sure.

old site home page = www.mysite.com

new site home page = www.mysite.com

No 301 redirect necessary for this page.

old site services page = www.mysite.com/services

new site services page = www.mysite.com/what-i-offer

301 redirect is necessary for this page from the old "services" page to the new "what-i-offer" page.

Correct?