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Re: How To Maximize Your Findability (Search Engine Stuff)
Do you not just keep both sites but do a 301 redirect from one to the other. As the specific part of the link to each photo wouldn't change the links should all keep working and the 301 should tell the search engines that this is a deliberate change rather than things breaking so you shouldn't lose any 'juice'. Might be… -
Re: How To Maximize Your Findability (Search Engine Stuff)
Yes 301 redirects are important so that you can have a canonical domain name. But keep in mind it's not having multiple URLs that hurt you (in fact, it's a perfect way to track offline advertising hint hint), it's not having a canonical domain name that hurts. In fact, I still need to do that for my site, . 10+ hour days… -
Re: How To Maximize Your Findability (Search Engine Stuff)
I know this is an old thread, but I'm posing for the benefit of future users since this is a common problem. If you have two sites and you want to consolidate to a single site/domain, once your content is moved from Site A to Site B, all you need to do is set up a 301 Redirect from Site A to Site B. Is is very important… -
Re: How To Maximize Your Findability (Search Engine Stuff)
Hi folks The original question wasn't mine, it was James. I was just replying to him. 301 redirects are what Google recommends for exactly this situation as far as I know. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83105 What I did before the move though was to use Google Webmaster tools to get a list of… -
Re: How To Maximize Your Findability (Search Engine Stuff)
LichtenHansen asks a good question. If Google finds two URLs with the same content that can be detrimental in the ranking. There are two solutions: 1) have a 301 redirect from the old page to the new Nice URL or 2) add the canonical tag http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html How can… -
Re: How To Maximize Your Findability (Search Engine Stuff)
I stopped using my custom domain on smugmug because I noticed that links from around smugmug to my photos linked to the timlinden.smugmug.com version. The duplicate content thing isn't an issue if all the links point to the custom domain, because Google is smart enough to know oh it's the same site but it's trying to be…
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