Moving multiple domains into one domain

[Creditsafe]

Hi,

We're currently moving a group of websites (approximately 12) under one domain so we've moved from www.example.de , www.example.co.uk , www.example.com to www.example.com/de www.example.com/uk and so on.

However I have read an article online today saying that this can lead to crawling complications. Has anyone done something similar and if there were any issues how did you overcome them?

Many thanks

[Alex-Harford]

If you 301 redirect everything correctly to its new URL you should be okay.

Which article was it?

[TommyTan]

Hi,

As Alex mentioned, as long as you use 301 redirect from old content to new content, that will pass on most of the link juice and Google will know to crawl your new site.

However, keep in mind that while doing 301 redirect, you should redirect to content on the new site that is similar or same as content on the old site.  For example: www.example.de's Content A to www.example.com/de's Content A