Re: Redirect From Old Ecommerce Site To New Ecommerce Site

http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/redirection

I redirect for an honest reason is not a bad thing. Matt Cuts knows more than anyone about Google and SEO. He has covered 301 when they are right and wrong. 301 redirects are used for many reasons. Good ones are fixing caps issues and adding WWW or removing it. They also help for adding trailing slashes.

They are there for a reason. If you need to move a site and to get people to the correct page.

People who think they are experts used to use then to avoid losing page rank so Google takes off a small percentage when you do it.

Doing nothing is stupid and getting fake linkbacks is worse. Be honest and write good content. Consider building your own site so you control every aspect.

If you are still having issues Google will likely be looking at you in a negative light because they are being set every where.

If page A matches page B and you do a 301 from A to B why would Google hate you? If your page B is nit even close Google is going to think you are tricking people and are going to knock you down.

You need to take care to redirect everypage to the correct new page. Or make sure that you are using the same URL as you were before.

This backlinking is good after. But you need to get your site straight first. If you don't let Google know you moved the page then you will lose everything and if you move it with a 301 and the referring page is not similar to the new page Google is going to wounded why you did it.

On Mar 12, 2012 1:45 PM, "Wallaby" <ian@write-research-office.com> wrote:

I have an eCommerce site that was recently moved from one host to
another. It was also moved to a completely different shopping cart
therefore the structure and URL are different.

The move took place 12 days ago but has not been indexed for the new
pages. All searches reveal the old URL which now longer exist so I am
getting very little traffic and a lot of 404's.

I don't have access to the old host (hence the move) to create
redirects.

I was thinking maybe giving some new pages URL the same as the old
database and redirecting to the new page but the old URL also include
\item_84\page-url.htm

Any ideas please? I'm open to any and all constructive ideas

thanks

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