Should I move my blog to my other domain ?

[orion68]

i have 2 ecommerce sites with 2 separate blogs, I m planning to redirect-301 one of the sites to the other. I want to move the blog content from the older site to the other site. Can just copy the content to the new site and combine with the existing blog content.?

I would appreciate any suggestions on this topic.

thank you

nick

[WesleySmits]

Moving a complete website or merging one is always a difficult topic.

Redirecting one of them to the other is a good idea but make sure that people will always end up on the right pages. This is critical for your user experience and pagerank distribution.

If i go to example.com/bicycles/bike1.html i certainly do not want to be redirected to example2.com/
The blog content can be moved without a problem but make sure to redirect all the old articles to the proper new articles.

[Chris.Menke]

Orion,

Moving/merging one site into another has substantial and long-lasting implications so you do not want to go into that lightly.  It's not necessarily a difficult task, but it is one that takes plenty of planning and forethought.  Most SEOs can tell you many stories of being called to the rescue after a company jumped headlong into the merging of their domains, only to find out that they lost lots of search traffic, lots of links, and/or lots of audience members.  If you don't have an strong need to move forward immediately and you don't have an expert in-house or a contractor to turn to, there's no harm in taking a month or two or three to slowly study up and become your own expert on merging domains/blogs.  You might start with these resources:

• Moving your site - Webmaster Tools Help
• Redirection - SEO Best Practices - Moz
• Cutts excellent video on 301 redirect limits
•  301 Redirect Relevance

And then you might move on to wrap your arms around the information in found in searches such as:

• merging domains
• merging wordpress sites