How to Deal With Your Blog if You Can’t Redirect It To Your New Site
Sep. 16th, 2008 by Aurora BrownThis is a major concern for many people looking to transfer free blogs from platforms like Blogger and WP to another location. Users have two choices, and the best one for you depends on a number of factors, the most significant being how well you already rank in the search engines.
For example, lets say you have a free blog at thisfreeblog.blogspot.com or thisfreeblog.wordpress.com and you want to 1) point it to thisismynewsite.com and 2) transfer all the content over.
You have two options:
1) You can leave your content on the free blog for the moment and start over fresh on thisismynewsite.com to avoid any duplicate content penalties. Remember that Google penalizes the site whom it identifies as having “taken” the content. Thus, it usually penalizes new blogs over old ones and this is why you don’t want to just do something like import all the text from one blog to another without deleting all the pages, cached and otherwise, for it.
Simply add a post and/or a graphic saying you’ve moved to a new site (you can’t do a 301 redirect on sites whose backend you don’t have access to). This is good for several reasons: one, you don’t confuse your readers and it makes an easier transition, two, you keep the rankings you already have and three, you avoid any duplicate content penalties.
After the new site starts to rank better than the old one, you can import all the information from the old site to the new site and delete the old blog completely.
2) If you don’t have any rankings, its safe to import all the old content into the new blog, then delete the old blog entirely and all its components.
However, this is still hard on readers, so you might just want to delete all the content associated with it and still have a call to action telling them to visit the new blog/site.
About The Author
Aurora Brown is the Social Media Manager and Editor-in-Chief for Authority Domains online marketing company. She currently authors the Authority Domains Search Engine Marketing Blog and is working on her first novel.Posted in: The Net |
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November 1st, 2008 at 9:32 am
This is definitely a concern for blog owners. I would, If I had my blog on a thirdpary, keep the old blog where it was, add a big banner to the right hand side letting users know that I have moved to another blog address on every page. Ensure that I have lots of link love pointing to the new blog from my most important pages, and ensure that I rewrite all the pages with the best landing pages and point accordingly. Let the old blog do what it does and start new.
November 8th, 2008 at 12:04 am
I think it would be make a duplicate content
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This sure is quite a deal as the old readers will mainly want the older site to be present, and if this is no longer the case, they will want a quick link or redirection to the new location of material. There is a bit of caution to be taken when transferring files, as backup is an important step since one does not want to lose the records of their writings/creation.
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