muesli
msg:168589 | 11:56 am on Dec 4, 2004 (gmt 0) |
welcome to webmasterworld. shouldn't be a problem. google will quickly pick up the changes. your english traffic will probably drop but then soon regain. just make sure to install proper "permanently moved"-redirects from your english-speaking .be-subpages to the equivalent .co.uk-pages.
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Belhomme
msg:168590 | 4:19 pm on Dec 4, 2004 (gmt 0) |
can't i just: redirect the .be domainname to the dutch part of the site. Google will see the change on every page, next time they visit the url in their index. They will notice the language change, notice that suddenly, .co.uk is different from .be and thus reward the co.uk with higer serps for the english part. and maybe in the process reward the .be for it being in dutch now instead of english.
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muesli
msg:168591 | 11:19 pm on Dec 4, 2004 (gmt 0) |
depends on how your structure is now. i was assuming the following:
example.be -> mixed
example.be/ned/products -> dutch
example.be/eng/products -> english i that case you do:
example.be -> dutch, prominent linking to example.co.uk
example.be/ned/products -> don't touch or redirect to example.be/products
example.be/eng/products -> redirect to example.co.uk/products if you have mixed languages on every page then of course redirects don't make sense.
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Powdork
msg:168592 | 1:08 am on Dec 5, 2004 (gmt 0) |
Keep in mind that google is having problems handling 301's correctly now. I redirected a directory from one site to a new domain and google handled some page correctly but others not. For some pages they now have a supplemental result on the old domain and a url listing on the new.
Also keep in mind that while this is a completely different scenario from what you are doing, I lost all my Google traffic because the new domain is in the sandbox. If you have substantial Google traffic that is important to you I would be VERY certain this isn't going to put you in the sandbox before doing any major domain restructuring. This thread [webmasterworld.com] has a bit more on the 301 problems.
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Belhomme
msg:168593 | 12:09 pm on Dec 5, 2004 (gmt 0) |
our structure now:
# example.be -> English (should become example.co.uk)
# example.be/nl/ -> dutch (should become example.be) at the moment example.be and example.co.uk is both going to example.be -> English. thus only redirecting example.be to example.be/nl/ will be the restructure.
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