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SEO impact on redirecting an entire website

by ElGuapo
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Hi all.

I'm untangling the mother of all knotted cables...

A friend owns a membership website. It's built on Joomla and hosted on a cheap Hostgator package. He has stored everything on the host, including tons of videos.

I am rebuilding the entire site on a Wordpress platform on a new host. When it's ready, we'll point the nameservers at the new host. We can't trash the existing site until then because it gets a couple of hundred visitors a day. Ideally, I'd like to capture as many of those visitors as possible using LeadPages.

I'm looking into the various ways of doing this. A website redirect would be the easiest, of course. But I'm wondering if the traffic would dry up anytime soon if the entire site was redirected to the Leadpages host.

Any guidance welcome!
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  • Profile picture of the author cyrsss
    you have to redirect domain to page level !

    Use Ht access code and properly redirect toward new pages !
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  • Profile picture of the author sbwebmaster
    Are you changing the domain or the content?
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    • Profile picture of the author ElGuapo
      Originally Posted by sbwebmaster View Post

      Are you changing the domain or the content?
      The domain will stay the same. Most of the content will stay, but it hadn't been optimised at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author johnmessy
    In this case you can use redirect 302 which is temporary for sometime.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rank Watch
    Originally Posted by ElGuapo View Post

    Hi all.

    I'm untangling the mother of all knotted cables...

    A friend owns a membership website. It's built on Joomla and hosted on a cheap Hostgator package. He has stored everything on the host, including tons of videos.

    I am rebuilding the entire site on a Wordpress platform on a new host. When it's ready, we'll point the nameservers at the new host. We can't trash the existing site until then because it gets a couple of hundred visitors a day. Ideally, I'd like to capture as many of those visitors as possible using LeadPages.

    I'm looking into the various ways of doing this. A website redirect would be the easiest, of course. But I'm wondering if the traffic would dry up anytime soon if the entire site was redirected to the Leadpages host.

    Any guidance welcome!
    Use page to page redirection. That is the best option you have.
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  • Profile picture of the author helpsupport
    301 Redirect is good for SEO
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  • Profile picture of the author LuckyIMer
    I recommend to build the new website structure to be as identical as the old one specially the URL's and once the the new website is fully complete, you can use 301 permanent redirect.

    There will be drop in traffic until the link juice and ranking is transferred to the new website.

    You can find more details about 301 redirect here:
    http://www.warriorforum.com/search-e...in-rebrand.htm
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  • Profile picture of the author mariajames1
    The best thing to do is to use 301 redirect to transfer all the link juice as well...
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  • Profile picture of the author Effortless
    Redirecting is not good for SEO. You should create direct & one way link. Its better for a site ranking & traffic gathering.
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