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Moving 301 domain to a sub-domain

         

rocco1999

11:33 pm on Dec 10, 2013 (gmt 0)

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So I just transfered website.de to de.website.com (301 page by page) and added new site on Google and Bing webmaster tools, together with new sitemaps.

I was wondering if there is anything else I should do to ensure this process runs smoothly and without any problems? Afaik, you can't use Change of Address tool for subdomains on Google and Bing, so I was wondering if there is anything else I should do at this point ?

Thanks

goodroi

9:09 pm on Dec 11, 2013 (gmt 0)

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Some people will contact the websites still linking to the old site and try to get them to update the links to the new site since a 301 redirect does evaporate a tiny bit of link power. Others think that this can be trouble.

phranque

10:21 pm on Dec 11, 2013 (gmt 0)

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are you geotargeting or language targeting?
if you are geotargeting you should set your region to Germany for that subdomain in GWT.

rocco1999

11:09 pm on Dec 11, 2013 (gmt 0)

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Yeah the geographic target for this domain has been set as well.