Changing domain name and duplicate content

[kareem bahrawy]

I had a blog with a domain name called "justdevelopwebsites" and created some posts on it but it was expired about a month ago and I'm thinking of coping the old website content(posts and design with some modifications) to a new domain . Would it be considered a duplicate content? Is there a way to tell google that I am changing my blog domain name?

Also any advices will be appreciated. Thanks.

[David Yang]

Your previous domain is quite important for Google. If someone visits your content via the previous searched results, he may see an error page. It's better to take the domain back and park it on your new website for a while.

Kind Regards,

David Yang

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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:45 PM, kareem bahrawy <karee...@gmail.com> wrote:

I had a blog with a domain name called "justdevelopwebsites" and created some posts on it but it was expired about a month ago and I'm thinking of coping the old website content(posts and design with some modifications) to a new domain . Would it be considered a duplicate content? Is there a way to tell google that I am changing my blog domain name?

Also any advices will be appreciated. Thanks.

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[Colin King]

On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 2:45:43 PM UTC+1, kareem bahrawy wrote:

I had a blog with a domain name called "justdevelopwebsites" and created some posts on it but it was expired about a month ago and I'm thinking of coping the old website content(posts and design with some modifications) to a new domain . Would it be considered a duplicate content? Is there a way to tell google that I am changing my blog domain name?

Also any advices will be appreciated. Thanks.

 

Hi Kareem,

 

Yes it certainly would be considered duplicate content and you therefore need to be careful.

 

Almost certainly Google will already have indexed the pages on "justdevelopwebsites" and if they then found other identical pages they would ignore them (i.e. NOT index them) because they don't want the same posts appearing twice under different guises.  Ironically then you might find that your "old" pages were in the Google index and your "new" pages are not!

 

It is likely that the pages on "justdevelopwebsites" will have acquired some PageRank and ideally you need to transfer this to your new site - it would be a pity to just lose it!  The way to do this is with 301 permanent redirects.  This has the effect of redirecting anyone who types in one of the "old" URLS or who follows an "old" link (say from Google Search) to your "new" page and at the same time transfers any link equity to your new pages.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Colin

 

 

[Jay Bale]

That is a good post by Collin. I would follow that kind advice.

Jay

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[kareem bahrawy]

Thanks for your replies, so as you say the best solution is to buy my old domain again for say 6 months and redirect all old pages to the new domain pages... 6 months will be enough for google to change its indexes to my new domain pages right ?

[kareem bahrawy]

One more thing. I searched google for my old domain name and it's not there any more does that mean google removed it from it's indexes? And what if I bought it again would that make a difference?

On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 3:45:43 PM UTC+2, kareem bahrawy wrote:

[Colin King]

Hi Kareem,

 

Are you sure that the pages you wrote were ever indexed by Google in the first place?  If they have never been indexed then you have nothing to worry about - just go ahead and create your new blog and forget about the old one.

 

Likewise, if your original pages were indexed but are not in the index now then I wouldn't worry.  Google could not consider your "new" pages to be duplicate content if they have nothing in their index to compare them with!

 

Take the URL of one of your "old" pages and put it in the address bar of your browser - if the page isn't displayed then you can be sure that it no longer exists.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Colin

[kareem bahrawy]

Hi Colin,

Thanks for your quick reply. 

I searched google with the URL of one of my old pages and nothing came up (just the facebook page I created but I can delete it). Does that mean I can now go ahead and move all the old content to my new domain and not to worry about google blocking me or something because of duplication?

[Colin King]

Hi Kareem,

 

I would expect that because your earlier domain has "expired" there is no danger of now creating anything that might be deemed by Google to be duplicate content on your new domain.  I must confess though that I am not ABSOLUTELY sure - maybe someone else in the forum can step in with a further assurance.

 

Many thanks,

[kareem bahrawy]

Thanks Colin you really helped a lot and I'm gonna take my chances and move directly to the new domain.