New concrete5 site on subdomain - move it or keep it?
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I'm ready to unleash my new concrete5 site to the world but I'm stuck on something basic.
I have my old site onhttp://www.example.com and I've built the new site on a subdomain, newsite.example.com
How should I go about switching over without losing too much SEO "juice". Is it best to set up 301 redirects or should I physically move the new C5 site? Or should I just change the DNS to point to newsite?
What would you do?
I have my old site onhttp://www.example.com and I've built the new site on a subdomain, newsite.example.com
How should I go about switching over without losing too much SEO "juice". Is it best to set up 301 redirects or should I physically move the new C5 site? Or should I just change the DNS to point to newsite?
What would you do?
concrete5 provides a method of redirecting previous site URLs to new site URLs in Page Properties. Hover "Edit" then click "Page Properties". You will see "More URLs". In that you can add multiple links from your old site and these will be 301 redirected to a page on your new site. As long as you cover all the pages from your old site you should have minimum SEO penality for that aspect of the move.
If you have a large site, 1,000's of URLs etc, htaccess rules can sometimes be a more realistic way to go.