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thomasvining · 26-03-2006, 15:06

Hey there,

We're just about to reorganise our site, and would like to break it up into 2 sub domains with each working as an individual site, e.g. www.tokyocube.com, becomes shop.tokyocube.com and blog.tokyocube.com.

Can anyone suggest the best way to go about this without losing our current google ranking or links that they send through to us, i.e. is there a way to leave all the pages google has indexed so far, but put a redirect to our new subdomain and somehow tell google to re-index with the new subdomain page?

As always, thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Cheers all

datahound · 26-03-2006, 18:03

I would suggest you leave the old site in place and add obvious links on the front page to the two new subdomains. Then include links on the subdomains back to the home page and to each other.

thomasvining · 27-03-2006, 05:46

yep, that's looking like the best option at the mo. 301's appear to be the most logical method, but I've read that google doesn't always pass your PR on for those pages, so it's probably not worth the risk.

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thomasvining Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Tokyo Posts: 379	google - moving to subdomains Hey there, We're just about to reorganise our site, and would like to break it up into 2 sub domains with each working as an individual site, e.g. www.tokyocube.com, becomes shop.tokyocube.com and blog.tokyocube.com. Can anyone suggest the best way to go about this without losing our current google ranking or links that they send through to us, i.e. is there a way to leave all the pages google has indexed so far, but put a redirect to our new subdomain and somehow tell google to re-index with the new subdomain page? As always, thanks in advance to anyone who can help! Cheers all

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26-03-2006, 18:03	#2 (permalink)
datahound Spare Parts Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Bracknell Forest Posts: 5,118	I would suggest you leave the old site in place and add obvious links on the front page to the two new subdomains. Then include links on the subdomains back to the home page and to each other.

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thomasvining Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Tokyo Posts: 379	yep, that's looking like the best option at the mo. 301's appear to be the most logical method, but I've read that google doesn't always pass your PR on for those pages, so it's probably not worth the risk.

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