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Hi - thank you for your responses and sorry for my very late reply. Appreciate your input on this.  Ruth, the reason for this being in a consideration was because the company wanted to re-brand their customer-facing site (changing to newwebsite.com) but keep oldwebsite.com as a corporate site. The issue of course is that, unless we did a complete domain transfer, we would lose some of the fantastic rankings that have been built up over two years of hard work.  This got me thinking about whether I could give them both, i.e. create subdomain.oldwebsite.com even though the main site has been redirected and transferred. Having thought about that, I wanted to know if anyone had tested this as it seemed like a potential loop-hole, whereby you might be able to have subdomain.oldwebsite.com and newwebsite.com both piggy-backing off the same DA.  But, as you mentioned that DA doesn't transfer that well to subdomains, I guess this may be one reason why. Thankfully, this strange scenario was avoided, as I finally managed to convince them to start a new corporate site on a .net or .org. The corporate site doesn't need to rank particularly, so I got my #1 solution anyway.  The subdomain idea I posted above was a potential backup plan at best, as the CEO didn't look like budging for a while! Thanks again - much appreciated!  Incidentally, I have another question posted here: http://moz.com/community/q/google-not-indexing-xml-sitemap-images.  It's really killing me, so I hope somebody can offer some assistance! Cheers, Mark

Hi Rob, Thanks for the helpful answer! I did a lot of research and also concluded that both options can work. I just haven't found any supporting case studies which clearly shows which of the two alternatives would work best. So if anyone knows a good article related to URL-structure and my question in specific, that would be very welcome! Thanks! Regards, Jorg

Yes if you important the DB to the new server here is more info. http://www.cms2cms.com/ It works for what your talking about http://www.justjoomla.info/general/73-moving-a-joomla-site?showall=1 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9452003/how-do-i-migrate-a-php-based-website-to-joomla http://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_Joomla_website http://docs.joomla.org/Copying_a_website_from_localhost_to_a_remote_host http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?t=187461

Hey Jeremy, Were you able to attain any information at the ecwid conference?

Yes, the blog is just built with wordpress, the site is not built with wordpress. It's straight html, so....www.businessname.com/blog..... I think I got it now from all of your responses! Thank you!

Thanks Dana. Yep, did the fetch right after the change. The cached page shows 7/13 which would be before the change. We are not a huge hitting organic search site so I figured it would take a little time but "tools" is showing nice daily crawling of the site. I know patience is a virtue, lol... you just want to see your work kick out and start working.

I think you would have to turn flash off to see it on a desktop. But yes, my recommendation is the dump the flash version, keep the HTML version and restructure the URLS.  Only then does it make sense to start SEO. (thought you could argue that is SEO)

It could be a footer widget.  If you go to the Appearance| Widgets section, you may a footer widget section--look in there for your code.  It may also be in the settings section of your theme's options--be sure to look through that section too.

To put it simply, the more (decent) content you have, the more opportunites you have to rank for keywords in search.

Kristina - Thanks for reaffirming my notions! And that is a brilliant friggin' idea.. "mobile first!!" I LOVE IT! Alrighty so I'll keep pluggin' away and I'm betting on the mobile site drawing in a surprising number of conversions as a result.. Time will tell! Thanks again

Hi Rameet, I'm sorry my earlier replies didn't help. I'll close your earlier post and let's leave this one open in hopes that you get replies that are what you were looking for. Thanks for letting me know!

No problem! Glad to hear you're working on it. I just know that will help your site so very much. Good luck!

No, it shouldn't be a problem. If anything, it should make your titles more targeted

Great responses, everyone. Thanks! What did you decided to do, OOMDO?

No problem

Ok thanks I will keep an eye on it.

1. What would be the best practice to not have duplicate content errors with products that are listed on both sites? Should we rel-canonical items shown on both domains or do something else? This depends largely on what type of website you currently have. Are you using a content management system? Is it all HTML? What do plan to build the letter? There are quite a few things you can use to prevent duplicate content errors Yoast WordPress SEO Plug-in comes to mind is something that get you through a lot of duplicate contact every day however I don't know what you say the site is made of so I can't really tell you for certain what's very effective on yours. I would say start off with a good developer that will not create duplicate content issues the first place. Your recommendation would be Greg http://www.gregreindel.com/ 2. We are not against having the new site be crawled, but will Google be upset/ding rankings because pricing is behind a log-in? Are there certain best-practices for B2B e-commerce sites? The login page is just one page. You will not block the website's pages that are of value that come after the pages been logged in. For instance you can have a indexable website page with a Login right there on the site itself it will then go through a process where it will not be accessed by anyone but members but you can indexes but I assure you Using http://getpremise.com/ or http://www.woothemes.com/woocommerce/ Will serve your needs very well if you're using WordPress I love her I don't know you site. 3. Do you know of any other sites that have done this/do you have any recommendations on how to best implement this? Very many sites of done this you are simply adding a members only site for your B2B customers you do not want the average Joe off the street trying to get it is a more closely knit group that probably pays a lot more money to you. You could do this with both woo commerce or getpremise.com Both of them are WordPress plug-ins. I believe that a use of the premise plug-in along with your members being added and given a registration name will not cause an issue whatsoever. I would build this out of WordPress however it is something I am very comfortable with and the site architecture I prefer. When using WordPress I always suggest using to manage WordPress hosting company may I suggest WP Engine, ZippyKid, web synthesis, Pagely  & Presslabs. Those are all manage WordPress hosting companies if you want something for hosting that does not do 100% word press I would strongly suggest using FireHost I hope this is better talk to you Sincerely, Thomas

Hi Ben, I can't see the photo more below. You said "In this case the site is linking to a gov training site and I feel the relationship is beneficial" If it is for the end user then yes link to it by all means. If you think it will only help the site for SEO reasons & not the end user don't do it. Direct Link (email & IM) in http://imgur.com/ when sharing pic's on Moz Other wise it looks like this href "http Imgur wrl4gKQ"> On my rule on linking always think if I link to  this site is what will help the end user if so link if not don't. Just thought I would tell you use So I cant see you pic's. Don't worry I did it al the time before I was told All the best, Thomas 7altzB7.jpg

Thanks!!! Good answer. Alan

Thank you very much.