Re: Changing domain name and duplicate content

That is a good post by Collin. I would follow that kind advice.

Jay

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Colin King <colin@educationquizzes.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 2:45:43 PM UTC+1, 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.

 

Hi Kareem,

 

Yes it certainly would be considered duplicate content and you therefore need to be careful.

 

Almost certainly Google will already have indexed the pages on "justdevelopwebsites" and if they then found other identical pages they would ignore them (i.e. NOT index them) because they don't want the same posts appearing twice under different guises.  Ironically then you might find that your "old" pages were in the Google index and your "new" pages are not!

 

It is likely that the pages on "justdevelopwebsites" will have acquired some PageRank and ideally you need to transfer this to your new site - it would be a pity to just lose it!  The way to do this is with 301 permanent redirects.  This has the effect of redirecting anyone who types in one of the "old" URLS or who follows an "old" link (say from Google Search) to your "new" page and at the same time transfers any link equity to your new pages.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Colin

 

 

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