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EGOL has already covered this off nicely. I also have clients with lots of links from Pinterest and never seen a single issue. I would just continue doing as you are - I have also found Pinterest to be a great source of traffic for the right sites. -Andy

The 301 redirect is only temporary, so as the new Website that you're redirecting has been submitted to Google Search Console to be indexed (link: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url?authuser=1) you should be fine!

Thank you! This is very helpful!

Thanks for the quick response. If hayacreations is ranking 19^th position in Google for a specific keyword, and ethniccode is ranking 30^th position for the same keyword, What would be impact after 301 redirect? Will hayacreations drop to 30^th position or existing position would improve because of link juice?

Hi Amy, Great question! In our experience, if you're migrating, the best choice is to put 301 temporary redirects in place until Google has the chance to index your new pages. Be sure to submit all of your new pages to Google Search Console for indexing once migration is complete: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url Hope this helps!

Thanks for your help. It's strange that the fr. is even working. That should not work, I wrote it in my previous message, but the . was the end of my sentence I don't think that could be the problem, but it's good to know and to fix it anyway!

Yes, I've seen the same thing. I've got a client with a small site of only 6 pages. The sitemaps report shows all 6 have been indexed. Then I look at the Index Status report and find 46 pages indexed. 46 pages indexed on a site with only 6 pages!! So this seems to confirm your comments Logan. The question I have is: how can I get a list of all the indexed pages?

Thanks Brett! Definitely a great point there about Amazon. We're thinking of posting some use cases and success stories on the product pages, which will be unique and shouldn't be seen as fluff by visitors.

Well, My thinking is that for whatever reason Google thinks that the title has to be longer than suggested by that plugin and for whatever reason is pulling the authors name. The only way I see something changing is too make title longer or remove/rename author.

Hi Guys, I know this topic's a little old but my e-commerce website is basically at the verge of undergoing the same changes, and I've got a lot of ranking-based concerns here. Our website ist called absinthes.com. It's available in 3 languages, so we created sub directories absinthes.com/de and absinthes.com/fr. The English version basically is always the default version when visiting absinthes.com. For various reasons, our company decided to split absinthes.com into 3 separate shops: absinthes.com for English, absinthes.fr for French, and absinthes.de for German. Now here's where I start getting worried: We're moving contents from a subdirectory (absinthes.com/de) via 301 page-by-page redirects to this new domain, absinthes.de. Am I supposed to let Google through Search Console know about this move, or will it think the entire site (absinthes.com, absinthes.com/fr) has then moved to absinthes.de? Is it enough to put rel=canonical tags and 301 redirects in place to make sure we're not losing any of our rankings on both ends? Would really appreciate your quick opinion on this, thanks so much!

HI John, I replied to Patrick. "Why Google is not stopping them.....": What I mean was, Google claims that they will take care of any bad , low quality or spammy links pointing to us to make sure their they don't affect us. But it's not happening in our case as few links can impact rankings and they did. Is Google really accurate about this? Thanks, Satish

Not a problem, happy to help

Howdy, So, typically, if category pages have typical product information like prices, names etc., all the schema will be the same. There is no special schema which will be used on category pages only. The rest transfers.

Hi Brett, thanks for the response. I am on Chrome in Windows. This is the first time that I have noticed a page cached for more than 72 hours after a site update.

I tried your exact search and it's still not coming up for me. I also used the GWT fetching and rendering tool on some other links that were once indexed and then removed- and what I noticed is that they would get reindexed for short time, and then will get removed from the index again. We are submitting a sitemap through GWT and no errors are getting returned. We must be having an issue with Google crawling our site, but I haven't been able to find anyone who has had a similar experience- do you know of any other things I can try to fix this issue. The main problem is that it's intermittent and there is no consistency as to why some of our links are indexed and some aren't.

I think Emily is on the right track here. You'll want to 301 redirect to pages that are similar in content. Your top level page on flowers from the old site should redirect to the top level page for flowers on the new site for example. It's more time consuming to implement one to one redirects this way rather than forwarding the entire domain to the homepage, but it will keep your referral traffic intact and Google is more likely to pass on the equity you've built over the years.

I have a final update for everyone! We discovered the cause of the mysterious increase in crawling. One of our partners tested out a second version of the content on the website (yes, we have two complete sets of content for every page) by swapping out the first set with the second set. The second set caused Google to reevaluate the entire website, crawl it repeatedly thousands of times for two weeks, then stop. The result of this refresh was a jump in the rankings. We were ranking on page one for about 15% of our targeted keywords and after the new content was inputted it jumped to 71%. Only time will tell if those new rankings will stick, but for now it looks pretty good.