What is the best way to close my blog?

[IoanSaid]

I have a blog on a separate address to my website.

http://cheshireweddingphotographyblog.co.uk/ and http://celynnenphotography.co.uk

Now I'm going to have a new website which is going to be wordpress based and it will sit on the main website (http://celynnenphotography.co.uk ) and include both gallery and blog.

now the blog does well enough on google, etc.. so i wanted to mix their SEO juju and all that, but what happens with my blog?

Do i: Stop paying for hosting, nice and simple.

OR Do I need to do something?

[AdoptionHelp]

1. You should move your content from your old blog into your new wordpress blog.

2. Then you should 301 redirect all the old URLs to the new URLs. This is done in your .htaccess file on the old server

3. Submit a new sitemap to Google and also take advantage of their change of address form.All done in Webmaster Tools.

4. Keep your old site with the redirects up as long as is financially or otherwise viable.

5. Consider asking site-owners to update their links to your new URL, but be careful and polite on this because you don't want to lose the link altogether.

[IoanSaid]

1. I've IMPORTED the content. That is what you mean, yes?

2. is that complicated?!

3. Thank you.

4. So when people will go to the old addressdo they see old content or is it instantly redirected?

5. Thanks!

[JamesNorquay]

hi Mate,

the best thing to do is pull a report for both your website on OSE and Google Webmaster tools.

work out which current pages have links poiting to them then 301 re direct these pages to the new website, try and match up the page.

Once this is all done confirm it with GWT.

[AdoptionHelp]

Re #2 it can be complicated. I refer to htaccess hacking as a black magic art of website building. But for straight 301 redirects, the code is fairly straightforward, in your .htaccess file it will be a line for every page that looks like so:

redirect 301 http://www.myoldsite.com/page1.html http://www.mynewsite.com/page1.html

This is the brute force method. You can also use regular expressions if there are patterns to the addresses, but then you're getting into the esoteric.

Re #4 they will be instantly redirected.