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Proper 301 Redirect - Copy paste content from old page to new page on new domain first or?...

by satrap
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Hi Guys,

I am trying to do a redirect on a page by page basis from an old domain to a new one, and obviously I am going to use the same content from the old page. But my question is how do you go about this?

I mean, do you first create the new page (copy and paste the content over from the old page), then set up the 301 redirect?...

I am just worried about the dup content issue.

I know scrapers scrape content all the time and in some case rank even, but how do I ensure that Google sees the new site as the original content source and not just another scraper site? ...

Or does this automatically resolve once 301 redirects are working (Google drops the old page and recognize the new page on the new domain as the original source)?...

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author uqmoore
    I create all of the pages on the new site, then I create the redirects. I redirect each page individually. I don't redirect the old root domain, however. After a few days, the new pages will show up in Google. In some instances, both sites show up on page one of results.

    I believe the duplicate content penalty occurs only when the same content is repeated on the same domain. I may be wrong. I haven't had a problem with moving content to new domains. I've even moved a popular page to several times to several domains to drive traffic to each site.
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Process is simple:

    1. Copy the content from old domain to new domain
    2. Set up 301 redirect from pages on old domain to new domain

    That's it.

    A 301 redirect tells search engines (and browsers) that the content has now permanently moved to a new location, hence the reason there is no duplicate content.

    Keep in mind that it can take a little while before Google will show your new domain in the SERPs.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jwarri
    I do agree with the info from UMS. The 301 redirects are very powerful but very simple. I have used them in several instances when "bots" visit my pages and return a 404 result, I just do a 301 redirect to the correct page and the problem is solved.
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  • Profile picture of the author pintara3
    UMS is spot on from my understanding
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