Need help - moving old site to new...

Hello Guys,

I have a client who has two websites - the old and new. Old has a nice position, not very good but ok and it's quite old and has TF/CF 23/32 55 000 BL and over 1400 sites indexed in Google (which includes circa 20-30 subdomains with projects - portfolio). The client wants to have only the new one and...

...the question is - which strategy will be better:

a) try to pair content/sites from old to new and now create a 301's
b) try to improve visibility new website (optimization, link building etc.) and to keep the old website and it positions as long as the new will have good visibility?
c) Or maybe use only canonicals?

Niche is average if you asking about competitiveness...

Second question - which tool use to pair and 301 old to new - screaming frog? Or maybe something else?

Any ideas or help guys?

Definitely I would do a site move in google telling them you’ve moved to the new domain.

Then set up pages on the new site to match the old site as much as possible.

Then 301 old pages to new pages.

If you could keep a similar structure then you could use some regex to do the redirects in bulk, if not then i think it would require manual work.

davids355 said:

Definitely I would do a site move in google telling them you’ve moved to the new domain.

Then set up pages on the new site to match the old site as much as possible.

Then 301 old pages to new pages.

If you could keep a similar structure then you could use some regex to do the redirects in bulk, if not then i think it would require manual work.

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Yup just recently did this and it works fine.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en

Watch that video ^ if you need help understanding

And tell google through google webmasters

The problem is that the structure of the new site isn't similar to the old... So only manual work...
Guys - so do this using .htacess 301 and on there list all sites to the new (www.oldsite.com/contact to www.newsite.com/contact etc.) or just only www.oldsite.com to www.newsite.com?

LonghairedPaul said:

Second question - which tool use to pair and 301 old to new - screaming frog? Or maybe something else?

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LonghairedPaul

Here is my system for migrating one site to another [even if the sites have totally different URLs]. With this system, it doesn't matter if you are going from HTTP to HTTPS. Or, from:

bommbam.com to moonshine.net
bommbam.com/supyawl to moonshine.net/first48
bommbam.com/jrvip to moonshine.net/banned-for-life

The point being, you can 301 redirect anything to anything.

(a). I download BOTH site's URLs using XENU Link Sleuth. I then vet the URLs and pull all of the "Valid URLs" into my Excel spreadsheet. You can name the tabs similar to the following:

• Old Site URLs
• New Site URLs
• Staged URLs < this is where you line up the URLs from Old to the New
• 301 Redirects < this is net result "301 redirects" you will code in step C below.

(b). Once your URLs are all lined up, copy and then paste them into the Batch Rewrite Generator:


(c). Afterwards, you will want to run either XENU Link Sleuth or Screaming Frog to check for broken links.

Hope that helps.

Thanks Bro! Heal a lot