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Redirection & SEO related stuff while moving to a new blog
I have a WordPress blog and recently I have setup a new blog lets call the old blog as blog old and new blog as blog new. What I did is moved the content, photos, pictures and all 250 posts from blog ...
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SEO implications of moving a section of site to a subdomain - Drupal to Jekyll/Wordpress migration
We are strongly considering moving significant, relatively static, portions of our existing Drupal site (yinyanghouse.com) out of Drupal and into a subdomain built up with a static site generator like ...
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Blogger still visible after moving to WP; Google Indexing issues after moving from Blogger to WP
I recently migrated from Blogger to Wordpress and am having two major transition issues that are really hurting. Despite literally hours of searching and experimenting, I cannot resolve the following:
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How do I change an existing custom domain with Blogger to a new custom domain
I have a Blogger site which has a custom domain which I want to move one old domain to new. Let's pretend this is old-domain.com and new-domain.com
I want to:
1. preserve my search engine ranking as ...
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wordpress migration and testing on Amazon EC2
I will need to migrate a wordpress site to Amazon EC2.
I've never done this before and it's not my area of expertise, so I'm following this guide.
I am getting close to making the actual move (EC2 ...
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How can I migrate articles from one Joomla 2.5 installation to another Joomla 2.5 installation?
I want to move some articles from an existing J! 2.5.x installation to another J! 2.5.x installation. I have had a look in the extensions but there is not a non commercial component that does this.
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Slow Migration is it possible with a PHP/SQL Driven site
I have a Joomla site that is operating on www.mysite.com, I want to migrate to WordPress but heres the thing, I have hundreds of pages and simply moving migrating them to a test site isn't ideal since ...
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Moving site from its own domain to sub directory - updating webmaster tools
We've got a site info-graphic-site.com which is on its own domain, what we want to do is move it to our-main-site.com/infographic
I know how to move them and setup 301's but what I was wondering is ...
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How to test the migration of a domain without actually changing the domain?
I have a somewhat complicated situation. We have a blog let's say at myblog.com and it is running fine. However, we now want to cut the budget and use a free hosting service isgreat.org. The service ...
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Custom CMS site migration blank page [closed]
I have this client she as a website based on a custom CMS made by the latest company she was working with and she ask me to migrate her website to my server so now I am trying to migrate this website ...
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Guide to migrating live Ubuntu server [duplicate]
Does anyone know of a good guide for migrating from one Ubuntu server to another.
I am going to move the home of my live ruby on rails application and I need to have as little down time as possible, ...
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Migration Joomla to Codeigniter - GWT reporting lots of 404's - How to fix
I recently created a whole new fitted system structure for a site previously running on Joomla 1.5 CMS. They wanted something more simple and elegant, and their back-end was a mess of modules and ...
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SEO Joomla URL to WordPress URL's
I am trying to migrate from Joomla 1.5 SEF URL's to WordPress SEF URL's.
The old links use this formatting: /site/sectionname/categoryname/id-titlename.html
I want to migrate it to ...
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Static HTML to Wordpress Migration SEO Implications?
Recently, I migrated a client's site to a new server and a new home within WordPress so they could more easily edit their website and start a blog section.
The static site was 10 years old a was ...
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The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting
I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com
Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading ...
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Drupal to Wordpress migration scope for SEO
I'm migrating a drupal site to wordpress and I was wondering what the concerns are with respect to preserving google rank, etc. while assuming the page content is somewhat similar.
I've set up 301 ...
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Joomla 1.5 to Wordpress 3.1 migration: how to redirect Joomla's permalinks
I'm migrating a Joomla 1.5 site to a WordPress 3.1 site (I will later update to WP 3.2.x) and I've found the right tool to do it, a plugin called Joomla 1.5 Importer. There is another plugin called ...
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How can I transfer article content from old Joomla 1.5 site to new 2.5 site
I have an existing Joomla 1.5 site and am intending to wipe it and install a brand new 2.5 site. I will pick new plugins, template etc but would like to transfer the basic text / images of the ...
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Website migration is not working for all computers
We got 2 servers on same network, Server-A and Server-B.
On Server-A (widows server 2003), we have IIS 5.2 and our website was hosted on it few month ago (about 7-8 months).
We bought a new server, ...
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Moving a WordPress installation from a subdomain to its own domain without losing PageRank
I'd like to move a WP installation from a subdomain to its own without losing the PageRank achieved by that subdomain.
What are the best steps in order to do this properly? Especially how do I set ...
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Migrating from a wordpress.com to wordpress.org blog without harming SEO
I've had a Wordpress.com weblog for 3 years. And its pages have a good pagerank and are shown in first search results pages.
Because of the limitations, I should migrate to my own WordPress.
How to ...
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Updating/Redesign website…how to retain/transfer ranking?
What steps do I have to take in order to make sure that I keep my search engine rankings after I redesign or update my site?
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What SEO problems could I run into when changing CMS?
I have a website on one CMS and I wish to switch to another CMS. What are some problems SEO-wise that I could run into?
I am aware that the way each CMS handles urls is different, so I'll make sure ...
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How can I transfer files from one server to another server using FTP
How can I transfer files from one server http://abc.com to another server http://xyz.com
I do have the ftp passwords of http://abc.com [source server] and destination server.
Which tool can be used?
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Moving blog to another host - what is the impact to SEO to be expected?
I run a blog under mywebsite.com/blog. This is a self-hosted Movable-type installation. Now I want to get rid of the blog installation and use a hosted (WordPress.com) solution instead.
The blog is ...
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Will moving a WordPress from one location to another result in broken links
I am having a WordPress installed at www.mydomain.com/blog/wordpress/
I am planning to move it to www.mydomain.com/blog/
Will this cause any 404 broken links? This question may seem stupid but please ...
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Nameservers and DNS - Appropriate Steps to Move to A VPS?
I bought a VPS and I am trying to transfer my domain over to the new server, I took two steps so far, but I don't think I did it quite right as its been 24 hours and most all DNS check sites still ...
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Tool for running a diff against production and test servers?
We're about to have a major site infrastructure migration (new OS, upgraded PHP, etc).
We currently have a live test mirror of the new environment running, using the production file system.
We're ...
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Migrating client's 30 email addresses to new email host [closed]
I am redesigning a client's website from scratch and consequently they're moving away from their current hosting (which is a reseller hosting plan of the web dev company who set up their current ...
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How do I migrate a MyBB forum to Vanilla?
I am running MyBB 1.6 and want to convert to vanilla forum.
There are no converters that I know of. Is there a way to do it using a middleman forum that is supported by both ? eg mybb -> phpbb ...
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Plesk Migration MediaTemple dv 3.5 to 4.0
With things slower during the holidays, I'm taking the time to upgrade out web server account with Media Temple from a dv 3.5 to dv 4.0.
I'm a little out of my element doing this, but have been ...
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Migration from one domain to another - Transfering the social media stats
I am planning to move my site from one domain to another i.e from domain a.com to b.com . The site also has a lot of content and the migration of content is not an issue. The 301 redirect will take ...
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Submitting a sitemap to take care of inherited Google crawler errors
I have an awful lot of Google Crawler errors (1000 or so) after I inherited a site that the previous owner migrated without moving much of their content.
Would generating a map of the current site ...
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Changing hosts but keep old emails [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Change host / keep emails
OK here's the situation...I'm trying to transfer my domain and email address to a new hosting service and I would like to start using Google's ...
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Website restyle, SEO migration plan?
I am currently in a project for one of my biggest clients. We have built a website that will -replace- the old website.
When it comes to actual content its is largely the same. However, the ...
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How to interpret number of URL errors in Google webmaster tools
Recently Google has made some changes to Webmaster tools which are explained below:
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2012/03/crawl-errors-next-generation.html
One thing I could not find out ...
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Permanent redirect to different domain followed by temporary redirect to folder
I have old-domain.com which I want to migrate to new-domain.com. However, the content on the old domain is, well, old. And I'm currently in the process of redesigning my whole site.
My idea is to do ...
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Migrated website: PageRank and 404's
We have recently migrated our website and a lot of pages that existed on the old website no longer exist on the new website. We did create redirect rules to match the URLs from the old and the new ...
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Migrating a small web application for smartphones by creating narrow HTML pages?
I have a small web site offering a couple of functionalities, but it was not designed to operate with smartphones then. I don't have experience with smartphone application development (and this might ...
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Migrating a national website to an international version
I don't know if this is the right place to ask this.
I have a Persian web service (online diaries): 31shab.com and it's been operating successfully for a year, and we've decided to create an ...
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How can I tell if I have root access to my server?
I have a website hosted in a web hosting service called Hosting24. I'd like to migrate to Liquidweb, and the guys at Liquidweb say they will handle the whole migration process for me which is good ...
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Looking to move current e-commerce website to Squarespace
I have a business website, www.stockrumors.com, and it is a pretty simple design on the user side of things but the back end and admin side of things are a bit more complicated. Is it possible to ...
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How can I migrate from phpBB 3.x to SMF?
I have a phpBB 3.x-based site which I would like to migrate to SMF - basically, all threads, posts, user accounts and possibly PMs.
This seems to be possible, but I haven't been able to find a solid ...
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Whereto should I migrate my dasBlog site?
For a couple of years I've been hosting my blog on my own server. However, I'm getting tired of maintaining it myself, and I also wish to move away from the dasBlog engine, since development of that ...
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I need to migrate my site to
I'm at a crossroad right now, because I need to migrate my bloated and buggy site to a platform that is both secure and flexible.
I have a community site built by web developers from scratch. The ...
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How to 301 redirct all incoming requests to a domain to another domain?
I have a WordPress blog running on an Apache2 server currently that I need to completely move to a new domain name.
http://www.somesite.com/ to http://www.someothersite.com
I need all requests to ...
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Migration from Windows to Linux hosting
I'm looking forward installing a CMS for my sites - most likely Joomla - but apparently Windows hosting doesn't support it. I was wondering what kind of changes I'd have to perform if I changed to ...
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How do I temporarily reference a new web host using my existing domain name?
On provider A I have an existing web hosting account running my site.
On provider B I have my domain name registered pointing to the web hosting on provider A. I've just purchased a web hosting ...
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How to migrate my static html web site to Blogger?
I decided to migrate to blogger.
I used to have pages like www.mysite.com/page.html, but Blogger pages are now like www.mysite.com/p/page.html
When people use the old link which is posted on the ...
