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Hello Moz Community :)**Back Story:**For the past 8 years, we have been running our main e-commerce site on Magento 1For the past year, we have been building out a new far superior version on Magento 2The new Magento 2 site is essentially done we have a couple little last tiny tweaks/improvements to complete. All signs point to it being 100% done by January 31 - 2019. The new site is currently totally functional and fully operational you could complete a checkout no problem. We currently have the site blocked from being crawled. Although we have rewritten all the site content & taken all new photos we've been concerned with duplicate content issues.
I have attached an image that is a very good representation of our average sales pattern in a typical year. We are a seasonal business so there are big highs and lows. **Concerns:**My hopes were to launch the site around March - 1 2019. I have to 301s meticulously prepared in a spreadsheet and ready to go. My concern though is making this change right before busy season is about to hit. On the other hand though there really never is an ideal time to make the change as cash flow is equally important if not more important during the slow season.Ideally, I would allow the site to be crawled and run them both in tandem for a while but I'm concerned about potential duplicate content issues even though the content has been significantly altered.**Main Question:**What's my best bet?1) Do the 301 in March and hope for the best2) Allow the site to be indexed - risk duplicate content problems and run them both in tandem for a while.Final thoughts.The old site is really starting to fall apart. Every day I keep it open and running we steal resources from moving forward with the new site.-Any thoughts, direction, suggestions or input would be greatly appreciated

Thank you so much I really appreciate the response.

I would be interested in any type of feedback with this situation.

Hi Moz community

Let's say I have two domains

www.domain1.com

www.domain2.com

domain1 is my main website.

Domain 2 was a peripheral side project I was working on. I recently decided to shut it down. So I hooked up the proper 301s and filed a change of address request with Google Webmaster tools.

I have had an offer for someone to purchase domain2 - I have absolutely no use for it and would like to sell it. I just want first to figure out that:

1. I can do this without losing any ranking to my main site.

2. I can disassociate this domain from myself and my Company completely.

I don't want any of the work we put into it to transfer to the new owner.

How can I do this?

thanks!

Hi, Rand - 1 year later. Do you still recommend strongly folder over subdomain?

I have three separate websites that I have planned on merging into one. I recently acquired a strong domain ( stronger than my existing ones ) & after much deliberation, I have decided to move them together into one domain.

Site 1) 1 Forum - Around since 2007 - Originally VBulletin, last year migrated to discourse.

Site 2) E-commercece Magento Site - Around since 2010

Site 3) WordPress - Blog & Articles - Around since last year - Currently using the new ( Main Domain I want to use )

After a lot of research and White Board Fridays, I was thinking this would be my best bet:

• newdomain.com  - Merged WordPress & Magento CMS Page.
• newdomain.com/ forum <-- Will move my forum content & Install to the new domain.
• newdomain.com/ store <-- Will move my Ecommerce content & Install.

Between my developer and I, we have our heads around how to handle the technical aspect of the move, 301s to the new location etc.

But one area we want to research before pulling the trigger ( we haven't found much data on this )

My Main Question:   What is the possible penalty coming for shopping websites vs. content-driven websites, and possibility that forum-based content hosted on the same domain might cause another penalty to be applied to the other content on the domain.

My Developer Says: In recent years, we noticed that forum content had been penalized in favor of editorially reviewed content when this is identified by search engines.     
What big hiccups would / could we encounter from  combining these 3 types of platforms into one site?     Many thanks for any direction or insight.

Thank you very much, I greatly appreciate the response. Any other feedback from is welcome.

Thank you!

Hello Moz Community

I have three separate websites that I have planned on merging into one. I recently acquired a strong domain ( stronger than my existing ones ) & after much deliberation, I have decided to move them together into one domain.

Site 1) 1 Forum - Around since 2007 - Originally VBulletin, last year migrated to discourse.

Site 2) E-commercece Magento Site - Around since 2010

Site 3) WordPress - Blog & Articles - Around since last year - Currently using the new ( Main Domain I want to use )

After a lot of research and White Board Fridays, I was thinking this would be my best bet:

• newdomain.com  - Merged WordPress & Magento CMS Page.
• newdomain.com/ forum <-- Will move my forum content & Install to the new domain.
• newdomain.com/ store <-- Will move my Ecommerce content & Install.

Between my developer and I, we have our heads around how to handle the technical aspect of the move, 301s to the new location etc.

But one area we want to research before pulling the trigger ( we haven't found much data on this )

**My Main Question:**What is the possible penalty coming for shopping websites vs. content-driven websites, and possibility that forum-based content hosted on the same domain might cause another penalty to be applied to the other content on the domain.

**My Developer Says:**In recent years, we noticed that forum content had been penalized in favor of editorially reviewed content when this is identified by search engines.
What big hiccups would / could we encounter from  combining these 3 types of platforms into one site?Many thanks for any direction or insight.

We have 4 Magento store fronts that operate out of the same backend. Is there any way to safely have products that span multiple stores without getting a duplicate content penalty?

thanks!

Thank you very much. I guess I just need to add in our email and I can safely say that we are good.

Hi Moz Community,

I am reviewing our website via MOZ and found the following issues: http://shopwindowcleaningresource.com/

1. No Contact (please refer to the attached image). However, we have an up to date contact info on our website. We have social buttons at the footer, our telephone number is at the top and we have a contact us page.

Any idea, why we are being rated as such and how to resolve it?

Any help will be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

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