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Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by flyffxtreme

flyffxtreme — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:56:33 +0000

in my opinion the google webmaster tool should be enough for site migration, if not, why even offering the option? thats kinda pointless.

Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by edfishboy

edfishboy — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:15:34 +0000

haha.. is that the fastest someone has ever said dub-dub-dub?

Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by RyanI327

RyanI327 — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 09:04:12 +0000

Is there any penalty for old 301′s? That wasn’t addressed in this video, but I can’t see a reason to take down a 301 redirect on a page level (domains are another issue).

Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by ianvisits

ianvisits — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 08:23:52 +0000

The simple answer should be “as long as possible” as you are not just talking about Google search results, but clicks-in from outside websites that linked to content on old-site.com and they wont know you changed your website in a way that breaks their links.

Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by Porretz

Porretz — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:51:29 +0000

As ianvistt said..
You have to always leave redirect 301, cause if u got link popularity to the old domain and you remove the redirect, you will loose all the popularity you were passing with 301.

Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by jeffyablon

jeffyablon — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:35:03 +0000

I have to agree with Porretz and ianvisits; Search Engine “Awareness” isn’t the whole story; any existing link juice you have has be be maintain/curated.

That said: assuming you maintain ownership of the old domain and redirect things on a page-level rather than a site level, the question doesn’t matter; a correctly-formatted 301 will pass the juice where you want it/it belongs

Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by laugedyret

laugedyret — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:47:07 +0000

It’s very important that you never give up the old domain. Because the you’re able to 301 all incoming link from the old domain to the new domain. If there are any.
And maybe someone bookmarked the old domain.

So I would keep the 301 for years and look into my Analytics for old 301′s from the old domain, before I skip the old domain or use it for something else.

Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by vesogry

vesogry — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:40:25 +0000

Hello Matt
I have a problem. I made 301 redirect from mydomain.pl to mydomain.eu. After a while all my traffic moved from pl to eu. I have a few high ranked keywords, some of them on first position, but yesterday, I can find only 3 keywords, on positions 70, 80. I don’t use black SEO. Is this permanent, have my website got filter and how i can check this.

Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by SubZeroo2011

SubZeroo2011 — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:59:30 +0000

I Like The Dub-Dub-Dub Part

Thank You

Comment on When I change domains, how long should I leave the redirects in place? by vesogry

vesogry — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:08:36 +0000

Now, I lost all my positions in google. I made 301 redirect and every position vanished. I’ve read on forum that positions can come back after 6 (sic!) months . Don’t redirect if you don’t have to. There also might be a problem, bacause I redirected from mysite.pl to mysite.eu(slash)pl. It really sucks, because this was my main client source and now it’s very difficult to make enough profit.