Merging 2 websites to 1

Hello,

I have two 4 yr old websites that I am going to merge into one.
How do I go about doing this ?

What is the best way to move the content from site a to site b with out hurting SEO?

Thanks in advance

 

Do these simple steps:

1. Move content from site A to site B
   There are two contents:
   - Articles/posting could be exported using internal export feature (if you use WordPress).
   - Image/videos available in specified path (upload path in your server)
2. Simply do 301 redirection from Site A to Site B. It would be great if you did it by using regex in .HTaccess (if you use Apache) / Nginx.conf (or website rules if you use Nginx).
3. Done.

It is as simple as like that. There will be no effect in SEO. There are other things which affect ranking but it has no direct relation with website transfer.

 

Thanks for the info,
So i just copy and paste content from site A to site B correct?
what about moving pages over to the new website same process?
once I have moved the pages over, convert the pages to posts?

These websites are Wordpress.

Thank you so much for you help.

 

Transferring one WordPress Website (site A) to another Website (Site B) is not that hard.

1. Login to Site A and go to 'Tools' section in Dashboard. In this page you would find a menu called as 'Export'
   
   After exporting the content (Post, Page, Tag, Category, Custom Taxonomy, etc) you would get feed/xml file (WXR extension).
2. In the site B, use the import function (looks image above)
3. Move all files (images, documents, etc) which belong to site A into Site B (the file have to be moved to the exact location).
   Usually it save to move all files in 'WP-Content/uploads' directory. If you save files in another path, you have to move that files/folder too.
   
   If you didn't move the file, any reference to images and documents will result in 404.
   
4. done

 

Awesome thanks for the info!
once I have moved everything over, the old site had pages that I want to convert to posts would that hurt my SEO?

Thanks

 

Not at all. Search Engine didn't treat any page as special URL. Search Engine treat both post and Page as the same thing. What really matter for them is LINK. You have to keep the link for page (old) and post (new) stay in the same permalink. If the page is located at '/this-is-page/' so you just need to create post at that url. SE didn't care if it is page or post. As long as the url stay same, SE will treat it as the same page. However, if your new post has better content than the old page, your new post may rank better than the old page (based on my opinion).

 

Thank you for all of the help! Much appreciative.

 

You're welcome. I hope the transfer (migration) work flawlessly. ^__^