Merging two sites to one Rel Can Question

[CFCU]

Hi All,

We have 2 brands (1 main 1 product as a satellite domain) that we're merging into our main brand.  When doing a 301 redirect - should we redirect everypage of the product satellite to the new site or is 1 main redirect fine?

I'm Confusing ....yep.

Ill do an E.G

www.nike.com & www.air-jordan.com

we are now shutting down www.airjordan.com and will be migrating all the content to www.nike.com/air-jordan

Just of course there will be other pages like air-jordan.com/order-now .  Should i do a rel can from air-jordan.com/order-now to www.nike.com/air-jordan/order-now ?

Or is simply a 301 from www.airjordan.com to www.nike.com/air-jordan sufficient?

Cheers!

[Daniel_Morgan]

Hi David,

Like you mentioned, I would ensure that all pages from airjordan.com redirect to their equivalent on nike.com/air-jordan. No need to worry about adding any canonical tags if you're using 301 permanent redirects for each page. Redirects are also much better for user experience as they redirect both the search engine spider AND the user.

Hope that helps.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi David,

Indeed like Daniel mentioned it's already enough if the pages redirect to the new version to make sure that the user is redirected to the right URL. If you're very lucky and the structure is the same on both sites then you would be able to take care off this with only 1 redirect.

Martijn.