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I'm making some changes to my business that will cause me to move my blog to a new domain. The existing site will serve as a sales campaign for our full service programs and I want to keep visitors focused on that campaign. The old site will serve much like a mini site with a sales letter and video sales letter.

In moving the blog content to another page - I found a post from Rand from a few years ago http://www.seomoz.org/blog/expectations-and-best-practices-for-moving-to-or-launching-a-new-domain.

The way I wanted to approach this was to remove the content from the old site, and then resubmit the site map to Google for indexing. Of course they'll notice that the blog pages are gone. (probably a load of 404's)

After perhaps a week, I'd repost the content (about 50 posts) on the new domain, which will be little more than a blog.

I'd like some input on the way to approach this. Should I...

a) Follow Rand's formula?

b) Go with my idea (sort of the brute force model)?

c) Consider an alternative method?

It's probably worth mentioning that none of these posts have high search engine rankings.

I appreciate your input Mozzers!

Thanks - that helps. Thought I might be approaching it incorrectly and you've confirmed I was...

I ran a search using the allinsite:floridainboundmarketing.com command and found that virtually all of my pages are not being returned in the results.

I'm one of those who (foolishly) used ALN blog network for a few months, got the unnatural links notice in WMT and on advice of other SEOs (including some here) I ignored it based on the idea that if my SERPS dropped due to alog update that a request for reconsideration was of no value.

As I watched my SERPs dropping I was confident that it was simply because those links were no longer being counted and overall link profile was poor, so the results started dropping.

I've not read where G has gone back and started de-indexing pages for such sites but it may be happening as (unless I'm wrong) my site is gone...

Anyone got any ideas? Am I searching correctly?

Yvonne, In my view directory submission is useful mostly for link diversity; other than a handful of high authority directories its not going to boost rankings much.

That said, I'd say that if budget allows it you'd want a listing in the Yahoo Directory. After that Best of the Web (botw.org/) has great authority and can help. If you're patient enough, then getting listed in DMOZ Open Directory project is a great directory link but they're slow and super selective.

Beyond those 3 any other directories I consider for myself or SEO clients are directories for their niche. You can search in G using 'directory:niche'.  Another way to find them is to study the link profiles of your competitors. Using the OSE tool you can see their link profile and with it look for directory listings.

Hope this helps you...

Scott

One of my campaigns is for a Joomla site (http://genesisstudios.com) and when my full crawl was done and I review the report, I have significant duplicate content issues.

They seem to come from the automatic creation of /rss pages. For example:

http://www.genesisstudios.com/loose  is the page but the duplicate content shows up as http://www.genesisstudios.com/loose/rss

It appears that Joomla creates feeds for every page automatically and I'm not sure how to address the problem they create.

I have been chasing down duplicate content issues for some time and thought they were gone, but now I have about 40 more instances of this type.

It also appears that even though there is a canonicalization plugin present and enabled, the crawl report shows 'false' for and rel= canonicalization tags

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks so much...

Scott

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Are you suggesting that to 'recreate' a page that was dropped and by re-naming the page I might bring the content back in view?

The domain is still indexed - some of the pages have lost 10-40 spots, some only down 3-5 spots but for money keywords that were targeted in blog networks the serps are ugly. Pages that were in the top 10 are now out of the top 100.

Carlos - you've provided an incredible amount of solid, actionable advice in your reply. I'm certainly willing to 'dig-in' and try to reverse some of the damage.

Oddly my traffic was low before Pengin and its a bit higher now. However my 'money' keywords are no longer in the top 100. Almost as if there was a penalty applied in addition to the loss of the link juice.

All of my pages are still indexed -they're just not ranking as they were a few weeks ago.

Look for my PM regarding the tool you used to quickly gather whois data and if you can provide guidance on the email you sent, that'd be a real gift.

Thank you again for your input. I believe that this will be useful to others who are also dealing with these issues.

Scott

Thanks Todd - definitely looking for quality, higher authority link opportunities. You've offered some really helpful suggestions...

SD

With over 900 of these 'links' - its a big job. Thanks for your input Adam.

Let's say that in looking in OSE that you find an overall low quality link profile.

Let's say that some of those links were acquired by using article marketing systems like UAW or SEO Link Vine, which were hard hit in Penguin.

Let's also say that some keywords were targeted within blog networks that passed a lot of page rank to targeted pages.

Let's say that at one point in time an offshore link building team was used and they posted low quality blog comments on pages with hundreds of outbound links.

Let's say as a result of the drop in SERPS that you've finally been convinced that there must be a better way and in the process join SEO Moz - and now you want to clean up the low quality link profile.

How does one go about removing links on such a diverse number of sites? Are there best practices for how to remove links you longer want pointed to your site?

Or is it simply best to go on about the work of building a lot of quality links and let the past be in the past?

Thanks for your input Mozzers...