Comments on: SEO Concerns When Migrating Your Website http://www.barryadams.co.uk/2009/05/seo-concerns-when-migrating-your-website/ writes about SEO, PPC, Social Media, Web Analytics, Email Marketing, Conversion Optimisation - all aspects of online success Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:44:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Barry Adams http://www.barryadams.co.uk/2009/05/seo-concerns-when-migrating-your-website/comment-page-1/#comment-8304 Barry Adams Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:51:33 +0000 http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/?p=272#comment-8304 Hi Matt, It's hard to answer that question without knowing many of the specifics. It might be that the new server had performance issues and thus Google wasn't able to spider the site as quickly as usually, with all the potential negative repercussions that might have. Cheers, Barry Hi Matt,

It’s hard to answer that question without knowing many of the specifics. It might be that the new server had performance issues and thus Google wasn’t able to spider the site as quickly as usually, with all the potential negative repercussions that might have.

Cheers,
Barry

]]> By: Matt http://www.barryadams.co.uk/2009/05/seo-concerns-when-migrating-your-website/comment-page-1/#comment-8303 Matt Tue, 21 Jun 2011 18:04:05 +0000 http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/?p=272#comment-8303 Good advice on not changing the WhoIs information, I never thought of that. If you're moving a site from one server to another are there server settings that need to be taken into consideration? My friend moved his site to a different server and the bots stopped crawling as much as they used to and his traffic went down 20%. I wonder what could have caused that, the site was exactly the same, just moved to a different hosting. Thanks - Matt Good advice on not changing the WhoIs information, I never thought of that. If you’re moving a site from one server to another are there server settings that need to be taken into consideration? My friend moved his site to a different server and the bots stopped crawling as much as they used to and his traffic went down 20%. I wonder what could have caused that, the site was exactly the same, just moved to a different hosting. Thanks – Matt

]]> By: Tobin Crenshaw http://www.barryadams.co.uk/2009/05/seo-concerns-when-migrating-your-website/comment-page-1/#comment-8204 Tobin Crenshaw Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:17:05 +0000 http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/?p=272#comment-8204 Thanks for the article, I didn't realize how much impact doing a site update had on SEO. Thanks for the article, I didn’t realize how much impact doing a site update had on SEO.

]]> By: Barry Adams http://www.barryadams.co.uk/2009/05/seo-concerns-when-migrating-your-website/comment-page-1/#comment-6920 Barry Adams Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:16:17 +0000 http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/?p=272#comment-6920 Hi Michael, Personally I feel that the duplicate content issue is a bit overhyped and that it won't have much impact on any site that produces its own content. Google's penalties for duplicate content are aimed primarily at scrapers and aggregators that feed off of other sites' content. I don't think it'll be an issue to have new pages with identical content as old pages on your site before the old pages are removed from the Google index. As long as you 301-redirect everything and have updated your sitemap.xml file, the search engines tend to catch on quickly and you should be fine. Cheers, Barry Hi Michael,

Personally I feel that the duplicate content issue is a bit overhyped and that it won’t have much impact on any site that produces its own content. Google’s penalties for duplicate content are aimed primarily at scrapers and aggregators that feed off of other sites’ content.

I don’t think it’ll be an issue to have new pages with identical content as old pages on your site before the old pages are removed from the Google index. As long as you 301-redirect everything and have updated your sitemap.xml file, the search engines tend to catch on quickly and you should be fine.

Cheers,
Barry

]]> By: Michael http://www.barryadams.co.uk/2009/05/seo-concerns-when-migrating-your-website/comment-page-1/#comment-6880 Michael Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:02:40 +0000 http://www.greatwebsitesblog.com/?p=272#comment-6880 Hi Barry, Are there any concerns that you would have with a large site, 301 redirecting and duplicate content. For instance if you changed the URL structure, and put up new pages with the same content and these pages got indexed they would then have the same content as the old established pages. Would this cause any duplicate content issues while the old established pages waited to be crawled and the 301 picked up. Cheers, Michael. Hi Barry,

Are there any concerns that you would have with a large site, 301 redirecting and duplicate content.

For instance if you changed the URL structure, and put up new pages with the same content and these pages got indexed they would then have the same content as the old established pages. Would this cause any duplicate content issues while the old established pages waited to be crawled and the 301 picked up.

Cheers,
Michael.

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