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Ok, SO I checked with my web designer about the transfer and showed her the strand.  This was her response.  Are we on the right page?  Her response is below.

There is so much in that email, I have no idea what's going on there. So people do recommend switching it? We have to switch the domains before doing 301 redirects. Hopefully all we need to do is hostshopadornonline.com with a redirect rule that will change the URL to shopadorn.com an keep the rest of the URL. If you do redirects now nothing will happen because there is technically nothing atshopadorn.com to redirect to. Yet. We need to switc the domain in volusion then wait for the dns an ip to move over to the new domain, hopefully won't take long, then one simple redirect rule can do it all, no need to redirect every page individually. My only concern was the losing ranking part so if thats not a problem, hurray!

Thanks!  I am interested in Re-Directing and having a professional do it, but I need some one that will not only do it, but explain to me what they are doing, and how they are doing it.  I want to understand as I go along all the aspects of our site.

Hi,

Sorry for not completely understanding.  So I WANT my website to be www.shopadorn.com , so do I have to do a 301 redirect for every product?

My concern is a lot of blogs link to a specific product on our site.  So they would link to http://www.shopadornonline.com/Prairie-Underground-Long-Cloak-Hoodie-in-Natural-p/prairieu_longcloak_hoodie_nat.htm

Once I make the switch to shopadorn I believe my products will now be found at www.shopadorn.com/Prairie-Underground-Long-Cloak-Hoodie-in-Natural-p/prairieu_longcloak_hoodie_nat.htm

I'm just worried about being able to keep all of those links working.

Also what do you mean

"You also need to 301 redirect your www to non www or vice a versa"

Thanks!

Hi!  OK, I am semi - new to SEO Moz  but have been self-teaching for 3 years.  However I am stuck.. I have been operating my e-commerce site from www.shopadornonline.com for the past 3 years.  I just purchased www.shopadorn.com

Right now Shopadorn.com re-directs to www.shopadornonline.com because all my products and links go to shopadornonline.com/productblahblahblah

I guess I am stuck.  Not sure what to tell my web designer to do?  Do I give up on having shopadorn.com OR do I start re-directing customers and doing 301 re-directs?

I think from what i have read that it is bad to have traffic going to both shopadorn and shopadornonline as they compete for rankings?

Where should I start?

I want to advertise on them.  But I want to hire it out to someone who knows how to efficiently market designer goods.

I am looking into starting to use the comparison shopping engines.  Any ideas on where to start wtih this?  Is there a good place to go that would manage all the different sites?