Shutting Down a Domain that Has Multiple Office Location Pages that will be Rebranded

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[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

I'd look at how much traffic those pages get organically. If nobody lands on them directly, then you can actually drop the redirects whatsoever. However, just in case, and if there is some organic traffic to those pages, then yes, I'd do 301 redirect to matching location pages on new website.

Also I think it'd be good UX, if you have some kinda way to tell users that they haven't been redirected by mistake to completely different company. So, maybe popup or something saying "You're in right place! We have a new name! Welcome to NAME company!"

Hope this helps

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[David-Mihm]

This is the way to go:

"create their same exact location pages on our site so that the 301 redirect makes sense to a site visitor once  they land on the office location page on the NEW BRANDS site"

http://www.aaffordableauto.com/contact/office-locator/irving-car-insurance-75062-tx-2/
should redirect to
http://www.newdomain.com/contact/office-locator/irving-car-insurance-75062-tx-2/

I have to strongly disagree with Josh -- location pages per location (assuming they each exist in the real world) is NOT a Panda signal, it's a best practice.

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[David-Mihm]

a) Do not take anything Google says at face value.
b) He should look at the brands that are ranking in his own algorithm.
c) I guess he would suggest that all companies remove store locators from their websites.

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