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Sub domains are considered as separate and totally different domains in the eyes of Google. The SEO impact of this is that it will be like you are migrating to a new domain name. Any way you do this, you will lose a little of the authority (PageRank) on the other end. Same with 301 redirects.

http://youtu.be/Filv4pP-1nw

So, we know you are going to lose a little, which is fine. You will probably not notice. What you need to be concerned with are general SEO best practices. Treat this like a real site migration.

Map out all of your current URLs. Redirect each URL example.com/widget/ to it's new home whatever.example.com/widget/ with a 301 redirect. Do not just redirect all old URLs to the root, or one page. You have to redirect each old page to the new page at it's new home.

I would stay put at your new location and not continue to move around. I did an SEO audit this past year where a very large company did exactly what you did, over and over. At some point, it will affect your rank more severely.

Sub domains are considered as separate and totally different domains in the eyes of Google. The SEO impact of this is that it will be like you are migrating to a new domain name. Any way you do this, you will lose a little of the authority (PageRank) on the other end. Same with 301 redirects.

http://youtu.be/Filv4pP-1nw

So, we know you are going to lose a little, which is fine. You will probably not notice. What you need to be concerned with are general SEO best practices. Treat this like a real site migration.

I would stay put at your new location and not continue to move around. I did an SEO audit this past year where a very large company did exactly what you did, over and over. At some point, it will affect your rank more severely.

Sub domains are considered as separate and totally different domains in the eyes of Google. The SEO impact of this is that it will be like you are migrating to a new domain name. Any way you do this, you will lose a little of the authority (PageRank) on the other end. Same with 301 redirects.

http://youtu.be/Filv4pP-1nw

So, we know you are going to lose a little, which is fine. You will probably not notice. What you need to be concerned with are general SEO best practices. Treat this like a real site migration.

Map out all of your current URLs. Redirect each URL example.com/widget/ to it's new home whatever.example.com/widget/ with a 301 redirect. Do not just redirect all old URLs to the root, or one page. You have to redirect each old page to the new page at it's new home.

I would stay put at your new location and not continue to move around. I did an SEO audit this past year where a very large company did exactly what you did, over and over. At some point, it will affect your rank more severely.

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Matt Sells
Matt Sells
  • 195
  • 1
  • 5

Sub domains are considered as separate and totally different domains in the eyes of Google. The SEO impact of this is that it will be like you are migrating to a new domain name. Any way you do this, you will lose a little of the authority (PageRank) on the other end. Same with 301 redirects.

http://youtu.be/Filv4pP-1nw

So, we know you are going to lose a little, which is fine. You will probably not notice. What you need to be concerned with are general SEO best practices. Treat this like a real site migration.

I would stay put at your new location and not continue to move around. I did an SEO audit this past year where a very large company did exactly what you did, over and over. At some point, it will affect your rank more severely.