Redirect without losing SEO value?

[jasonprice]

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[Justian]

If you want to redirect from the old page to a new one, you have to make a 301 redirect to loose as little "juice" as possible. You might not direct 100% of the "juice" but you'll get most of it.

About the urls you have made:

The url looks to me like keyword stuffing. You are trying to get too many keywords in the url in my oppinion. I would recommend you to focus on the most important keyword(s). Google is getting better and better at understanding the content so you don't need to think as mush about "density" or building multiple pages. Just make sure that you build great content and that keyword related terms are used as well.

And as you already said the most important keywords (witch is almost a phrase is "app developers atlanta" the stick to that in your url.

[alecfwilson]

I've been researching a similar concern - redirecting our blog from swiftype.com/blog to blog.swiftype.com (our marketing automation platform uses subdomains).  While my instinct was 301 redirects, some coworkers had some of your same concerns.  Our solution was to simply create the new blog with identical content, stop posting to the old one, and add new canonical URLs of blog.swiftype.com/{slug} to the swiftype.com/blog posts.  We've been doing that for a few months now, and will be 301 redirecting in the very near future. Anyway - thought it might address your concerns a bit if you are willing to hold off on the redirect for a little bit and let Google associate the two pages before redirecting.

[RobertJakobson]

Hi, there is relatively little to be afraid of in terms of 301 redirects these days. At least if you are using Google Webmaster Tools — you can use "Fetch as Google" to notify Google of the change and submit both the new url and the fact that the old url is redirected.

I have done this for a domain with medium "domain authority" and usually the change to the SERP pages works in 48 hours. Absolutely no loss of any sort of ranking. Like none. May be that is because both the old and new pages are well optimised, which may not be always the case.

Finally, you are absolutely right, you still should add the canonical url meta tags. Even though Google is more relaxed about duplicate content, as long as it is not spam, than one might think.

[JVRudnick]

Justian....if it "looks like" keyword stuffing to you then it is!

Google will see it that way too, eh!

Bad practices, I'd say....