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Assigning a domain to a 2.0 site

by livemusic
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Let's say I have a Weebly site, a hypothetical www.seoguitars.weebly.com. (Just an example, it's not real.) Say it is serving me well. But I'd rather put one of my aged, parked domains on it, so that the weebly site would just be seoguitars.com. If I do this, is it going to affect my SERP for www.seoguitars.weebly.com? Will both sites show up in a search from then on or only www.seoguitars.weebly.com?

If someone links to either the stand alone domain or the Weebly dubdomain, is it the same link in eyes of search engines?
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  • Profile picture of the author TheContentAuthority
    Livemusic,

    Your question as to whether it would affect the original domain would depend on how you set up the new domain. If you configure the old domain to forward to the new domain, you wouldn’t experience a drop in traffic but the old domain would eventually fall out of SERP’s (most likely after a month or two). If you did not redirect the old domain to the new domain, you would lose all traffic (from search and any backlinks built with the old domain) and the old domain would eventually fall out of SERP’s.

    So, no matter what the old domain will eventually go away and the new one will take its place. There will be a period where both will be indexed however I doubt they will both show up in search alongside one another.

    This explains what will happen pretty well (even though you aren’t technically moving files anywhere the concept still applies).

    Moving your site - Webmaster Tools Help

    Hope that helps,

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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    An aged, parked domain would be kinda worthless.

    If the 2 sites exist outside of each other, as 2 separate sites, of course
    they could show up. If one version is wiped out, a matter of time before
    it gets de-indexed.

    Why mess with success, if you have it now?

    Here's what I have. For each domain, I have a blogspot, squidoo, twitter,
    FB, and, sometimes, a wordpress. They all feed to the domain.

    If your weebly is solid, indexed, etc., use it to funnel traffic to a dot com.

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    • Profile picture of the author livemusic
      Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

      An aged, parked domain would be kinda worthless.

      If the 2 sites exist outside of each other, as 2 separate sites, of course
      they could show up. If one version is wiped out, a matter of time before
      it gets de-indexed.

      Why mess with success, if you have it now?

      Here's what I have. For each domain, I have a blogspot, squidoo, twitter,
      FB, and, sometimes, a wordpress. They all feed to the domain.

      If your weebly is solid, indexed, etc., use it to funnel traffic to a dot com.

      Paul
      I don't have two sites (for this particular example), I have one parked domain, which is doing nothing, it's just parked, and a Weebly site that is doing well. I could leave the weebly as is but I thought it would look more authoritative if I have SEOGuitars.com (again, only an example name) at the very top. Otherwise, what can I have at the top for a name? It would look kinda funny to put SEOGuitars.Weebly.com up there, wouldn't it? When leads call me from my sites, I ask them "What site did you find my phone number on?" Some of them actually know and they tell me, because they are in front of their computer. It helps me track where leads are coming from. So, what to do?

      Paul, you said you have a weebly, blogger, twitter, FB, etc. feeding a domain you have. How do you feed it? You link to it or what do you mean? Is your non 2.0 site (you domain site) your main site for that product/service/niche?
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      • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
        Originally Posted by livemusic View Post

        I don't have two sites (for this particular example), I have one parked domain, which is doing nothing, it's just parked, and a Weebly site that is doing well. I could leave the weebly as is but I thought it would look more authoritative if I have SEOGuitars.com (again, only an example name) at the very top. Otherwise, what can I have at the top for a name? It would look kinda funny to put SEOGuitars.Weebly.com up there, wouldn't it? When leads call me from my sites, I ask them "What site did you find my phone number on?" Some of them actually know and they tell me, because they are in front of their computer. It helps me track where leads are coming from. So, what to do?

        Paul, you said you have a weebly, blogger, twitter, FB, etc. feeding a domain you have. How do you feed it? You link to it or what do you mean? Is your non 2.0 site (you domain site) your main site for that product/service/niche?
        If you're looking to build a long-term business, and you want to build a brand, then yes, scrap the weebly subdomain.

        Transfer all of the content from the weebly blog, onto a .COM with WordPress. 301 redirect the weebly blog to your new .COM. 301 redirect all of the old posts to the new posts.
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        • Profile picture of the author livemusic
          Originally Posted by Icematikx View Post

          If you're looking to build a long-term business, and you want to build a brand, then yes, scrap the weebly subdomain.

          Transfer all of the content from the weebly blog, onto a .COM with WordPress. 301 redirect the weebly blog to your new .COM. 301 redirect all of the old posts to the new posts.
          Wouldn't it just be easier to assign a domain to the weebly? I could even transfer a Godaddy domain I have to Namesilo; Namesilo registrar has some kind of deal with Weebly so they make it easy to have your own domain on your weebly site. Why do you say I should take it off weebly?

          Isn't one of the reasons it's ranked well is because it's Weebly?

          P.S. I have quite a few websites that I do the HTML but I am not expert by any stretch. I like the ease of using a WYSIWYG interface, especially since my sites are nothing fancy, relying on good content and copy. All I know is that whatever I write, it works. I am a one man show like most of you, plus, I run an entire company offline, so, I am a busy guy and don't have time to learn to be expert HTML. Plus, I might retire in a couple of years anyway. I'm no spring chicken. I like easy, lol. I spend time on writing good content.
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          • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
            Originally Posted by livemusic View Post

            Wouldn't it just be easier to assign a domain to the weebly? I could even transfer a Godaddy domain I have to Namesilo; Namesilo registrar has some kind of deal with Weebly so they make it easy to have your own domain on your weebly site. Why do you say I should take it off weebly?

            Isn't one of the reasons it's ranked well is because it's Weebly?

            P.S. I have quite a few websites that I do the HTML but I am not expert by any stretch. I like the ease of using a WYSIWYG interface, especially since my sites are nothing fancy, relying on good content and copy. All I know is that whatever I write, it works. I am a one man show like most of you, plus, I run an entire company offline, so, I am a busy guy and don't have time to learn to be expert HTML. Plus, I might retire in a couple of years anyway. I'm no spring chicken. I like easy, lol. I spend time on writing good content.
            WordPress was made for people like yourself - people who have no knowledge of HTML, PHP or any other coding language. You don't even need knowledge of on-page SEO, as WordPress plugins do it all for you. For the record, WordPress has 10x better functionality than Weebly too, because of the plugins. A WYSIWYG interface comes pre-included, and there's plugins which further improve the editor to make everything extremely easy. Inserting HTML tables can be done with one button.

            Invest in a Hostgator hosting package, which comes pre-included with something called Fantastico. From there, you can install WP with one button. Hostgator's live support is also great for helping you out. They will personally fix problems for you, install plugins for you and so much more.

            As for Weebly, you'll always be bowing down to Weebly as they own your content and your online business. You're not piggybacking off Weebly's "authority", as a subdomain is considered a separate entity. Weebly are benefiting from you (see their links in your footer?).

            If you want to take internet marketing seriously, it's time to step up and go it alone. Weebly and all other sites are a ploy for them to benefit from people who have a limited understanding of webmaster concepts. Yes, getting started with WordPress may take a day or so - but it's independence and it's the start of your learning path to building an online business that lasts, and works for you.
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            • Profile picture of the author livemusic
              Originally Posted by Icematikx View Post

              WordPress was made for people like yourself - people who have no knowledge of HTML, PHP or any other coding language. You don't even need knowledge of on-page SEO, as WordPress plugins do it all for you. For the record, WordPress has 10x better functionality than Weebly too, because of the plugins. A WYSIWYG interface comes pre-included, and there's plugins which further improve the editor to make everything extremely easy. Inserting HTML tables can be done with one button.

              Invest in a Hostgator hosting package, which comes pre-included with something called Fantastico. From there, you can install WP with one button. Hostgator's live support is also great for helping you out. They will personally fix problems for you, install plugins for you and so much more.

              As for Weebly, you'll always be bowing down to Weebly as they own your content and your online business. You're not piggybacking off Weebly's "authority", as a subdomain is considered a separate entity. Weebly are benefiting from you (see their links in your footer?).

              If you want to take internet marketing seriously, it's time to step up and go it alone. Weebly and all other sites are a ploy for them to benefit from people who have a limited understanding of webmaster concepts. Yes, getting started with WordPress may take a day or so - but it's independence and it's the start of your learning path to building an online business that lasts, and works for you.
              Thanks, I have used WP before, I made it work but it wasn't the easiest thing I've done. And I've done quite a bit. Including building dozens of sites from scratch with all kinds of scripts, and have edited the scripts (PHP, etc.). Your saying I should just use WP instead of Weebly has me intrigued. I sure thought I was riding their authority; do you really think I ranked so well for some of my key phrases because of good content and some SEO? (BTW, it is a very narrow niche, so, I suppose I don't have that much expert competition, lol. Which is a good thing.)

              P.S. Far as I know, since I have "pro" Weebly sites, they don't get anything except my fees; there are no links in the footer because I am allowed to remove them, which I did.
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