Hi all I have a domain that ranks very well due to age and relevance and seo over the last 7 years. Problem is it is airport specific and I now need to use a more all encompassing airports domain. 1.) The 7 year domain is ie. awesomeairportparkingJFK.com 2.) I need this domain ie. awesomeairportparking.com to be the MAIN/MASTER (eventually) because we are more than one location now. We have JFK, LGA, DEN, LAX etc. That wasnt the case when we started. Being that 1.) has all the juice. How do I do this? I would like 2.) to be juiced domain. Thanks in advance YM
Just do a 301 permanent redirect as Google suggests. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633?hl=en
Hi thanks for your reply. I want to understand this 100% So I should take current url and links from aged domain and point them to new domain with same links? yes? ie. ageddomain.com --- 301 ---> to newdomain.com ageddomain.com/aboutus/php --- 301 ---> newdomain.com/aboutus/php ageddomain.com/services/php --- 301 ---> newdomain.com/services/php ageddomain.com/products/php --- 301 ---> newdomain.com/products/php ageddomain.com/contactus/php --- 301 ---> newdomain.com/contactus/php Is that correct? the aged domain is nothing but an empty page 301 redirect? Thanks in advance YM
That is what Google suggests. Why take down the existing content? Just leave it up and all your visitors will be redirected to the new domain, including search engine bots. I can see no reason to take down the old content. Just leave it. After time when Google has updated its index and transferred any PR or whatever it uses these days, then you can take down the old site. I would leave it up for a few months just in case. No where have I read anything suggesting that the old content must be removed before redirecting.
Will a rel=canonical from old URL to new URL be just as good as a 301? That way you can have both sites and not worry about duplicate content.