Redirecting pages (old site to new site)

[Yanez]

I have a question- there is one location, one set of pages for both the old and new site on the same host environment so  when I did the redirect it get into a loop trying to redirect from itself to itself Not sure how its gonna affect SEO. Will pages get hit for duplicate content?

[JarnoNijzing]

Yanez,

redirecting means that you tell visitors and search engines that visit the old page where the new page is located and you present that one to them. Keeping the new page on the exact same address as the old page means that you're inconsistent in building sites. No 2 pages can be named exactly the same.

I would advice you to rename the newer version of the page and redirect the old version to the newer version.

This should solve your problems.

Regards

Jarno

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Yanez

Jarno basically explained it. You have a few options though - what is the site created with?

Basically you can either;

• Create the new site in a subfolder with the same URLs - and then move it to the root folder to replace the old site. If ALL URLs stay the same, no redirects are needed.

• OR, you can create the new site with entirely new URLs in the root (minus the index page, which you keep a different name in the meantime) and then when ready, you switch out the index page, which becomes the new homepage - and put in redirects from the old URLs to the new URLs all at once.

But to get into more specifics, it does depend how you are creating the site (HTML, wordpress, drupal?) to give more details.

-Dan