Experiment, moving to a new domain
I am sure someone has gone through this nightmare before. I have just moved a huge site from Germany, which was hosted on a .com sub domain with a US IP address.
Here are the factors that make this dangerous.
1). Millions of pages
2). .com to .de domain name
Based on recommendations from the experts at Google I am redirecting each and every URL to be an exact match on the new domain. For example de.mysite.com/cool-page.html 301 to www.newsite.de/cool-page.html.
Technically all of the links should just pass over, but the real question is! Will this new domain have the site is too big problem? Or will it just rank since I am 301’ing every single page to the new site separately.
The site contains most of the same content, however is on a completely new code based. New look and feel and some additional navigation to it.
Further updates to come!
Here are the factors that make this dangerous.
1). Millions of pages
2). .com to .de domain name
Based on recommendations from the experts at Google I am redirecting each and every URL to be an exact match on the new domain. For example de.mysite.com/cool-page.html 301 to www.newsite.de/cool-page.html.
Technically all of the links should just pass over, but the real question is! Will this new domain have the site is too big problem? Or will it just rank since I am 301’ing every single page to the new site separately.
The site contains most of the same content, however is on a completely new code based. New look and feel and some additional navigation to it.
Further updates to come!
by Aaron Shear
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