Moving content from 1 site to another

[andystorey]

Hi Moz'ers

I have recently taken over the company I work for (www.prendas.co.uk) and want to migrate approx 200 pages from my hobby site to my company's eCommernce website on Shopify Plus.  The content (text/photos) are highly relevant to the company, is unique & written by me and will hopefully generate some sales.

I have a plan to gradually move them all over (I intend on doing 2-5/day) into a specific blog section to house them all.  I'll then create an Apache perm. redirect to the old site too.

Source: cycling-jersey-collection.com         D/A 21
Destination: prendas.co.uk                D/A 35

The plan is to eventually shut the old site down.

Does anybody have any best practice/and/or recommendations?

Thanks in advance.

Andy

[WebElaine]

The best practice here is to redirect one by one - rather than redirecting everything on the old domain to your new domain's homepage. So, as you move each one over, also have your .htaccess file up and set up those redirects. This way you can make sure that Google sees you're redirecting people to the same content, and you can also make sure any of the old link juice is flowing deeper within your Shopify site - not just stopping at the homepage.

[andystorey]

Thanks - I'll go ahead and do that.