Can you change the websites in your PRO Dashboard?

[Eblan]

Hello,

I set a client's website in one of my 5 campaigns in my Pro Dashboard. But my client changed his domain. I don't see an option to change the domain server in the Campaign settings.

Is it possible?

[jesse-landry]

As far as I know, you will have to delete the campaign and start over. But I must ask.. did your client not redirect the domain?

[Eblan]

The site is completely redirected to the new domain. Does this mean I can keep my current campaign? would be nice.

[jesse-landry]

I don't see why not. Roger should follow your redirects just like any bot would. I'm assuming your campaign is still reporting normal stats? OSE working with the old domain, advising that it's redirecting?

[NakulGoyal]

You might want to email help@seomoz.org with your campaign old domain and new domain and they "might" be able to help.

[Eblan]

No new info yet. I guess i'll wait for the next crawl this thursday. What you say makes a lot of sense though.

thanks Jesse!

[ThompsonPaul]

Unfortunately, in my experience it's not going to work the way you hope (and assume), Eblan. Even with the redirects in place, it hasn't worked that way for me.

For example a clients site was domain.ca and they switched to domain.com. The campaign no longer collects data for the on-page reports for the original domain.

My advice would be, if you have any campaign slots left, create a new campaign for the new domain right away, so it can begin collecting data as soon as possible. Then if the old campaign drops out as I suspect, you'll have the new one up and running with as little lost data as possible (You can copy/paste keyword lists etc across from campaign to campaign).

The old campaign can be archived to free up another slot when you need it, but still keep the data available for future reference if you need to go back to it. That is to say, don't delete the old campaign, but archive it instead.

And if it turns out I'm wrong and the redirects work for you, you can just nuke the recently created campaign and get a free slot back.

Paul

[Eblan]

Thanks a lot Paul,

I guess I will do both. Just want to try Jesse's idea and verify it if I can. As usual, your info is of great help. I think I should set up the new campaign ASAP like you suggested, it is better for me and my client. Can't risk all the valuable info to get wasted.

Cheers!

[Eblan]

I will try this for sure once I have no campaigns left. Thank you very much for your time Nakul.

[ThompsonPaul]

I really hope I'm wrong & Jesse's right, but as I say - not how it's worked for me. I think you're safest to do both and cover your bases as you say. Worst case, all works as you hope and you can just delete the campaign I suggested.

I'm sure I saw a similar question which the Moz staff responded to saying the domain redirect wouldn't work, but haven't' been able o find it for you.

Good luck!

Paul

[jesse-landry]

Interesting. Keep us posted, will you Eblan? I'm curious to know how this works out.