Re: Changing domain name and duplicate content

Hi Kareem,

 

I would expect that because your earlier domain has "expired" there is no danger of now creating anything that might be deemed by Google to be duplicate content on your new domain.  I must confess though that I am not ABSOLUTELY sure - maybe someone else in the forum can step in with a further assurance.

 

Many thanks,

 

Colin

 

 

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 2:53:45 PM UTC+1, kareem bahrawy wrote:

Hi Colin,

Thanks for your quick reply. 

I searched google with the URL of one of my old pages and nothing came up (just the facebook page I created but I can delete it). Does that mean I can now go ahead and move all the old content to my new domain and not to worry about google blocking me or something because of duplication?

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:45:02 PM UTC+2, Colin King wrote:

Hi Kareem,

 

Are you sure that the pages you wrote were ever indexed by Google in the first place?  If they have never been indexed then you have nothing to worry about - just go ahead and create your new blog and forget about the old one.

 

Likewise, if your original pages were indexed but are not in the index now then I wouldn't worry.  Google could not consider your "new" pages to be duplicate content if they have nothing in their index to compare them with!

 

Take the URL of one of your "old" pages and put it in the address bar of your browser - if the page isn't displayed then you can be sure that it no longer exists.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Colin

On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:11:23 PM UTC+1, kareem bahrawy wrote:

One more thing. I searched google for my old domain name and it's not there any more does that mean google removed it from it's indexes? And what if I bought it again would that make a difference?

On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 3:45:43 PM UTC+2, kareem bahrawy wrote:

I had a blog with a domain name called "justdevelopwebsites" and created some posts on it but it was expired about a month ago and I'm thinking of coping the old website content(posts and design with some modifications) to a new domain . Would it be considered a duplicate content? Is there a way to tell google that I am changing my blog domain name?

Also any advices will be appreciated. Thanks.

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