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Hi Adviso,

I've dealt with a few massive URL changes over the past year and reluctantly had to let the social shares go and just start over again. When you are dealing with thousands of pages, it simply is not going to be worth the time and effort needed to transfer them all over.

Ultimately, they are just a number that is displayed on your page and have yet to prove any significant value. If the content is good and still relevant, it will be shared again. Social Proof is nice, but good content doesn't need it. People will recognize it on their own.

This is the best article I have found on how to do it for each social network:

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2172926/How-to-Maintain-Social-Shares-After-a-Site-Migration

Good luck on finding a solution that works for you.

Facebook pages and G+ pages can both be transferred over (just create new admins). Also- I'm not even sure what "losing juice from these pages" even means. Do the pages rank well? Have a lot of followers? None of those things would change if they gave you control.

Sounds like you need to shop around for a new provider. You don't want to pay a company long-term that is in it for themselves over a company that is in it for you.

I see no problem in this. Every page has to start somewhere and get it's first few +1s or likes. There is nothing here against Google's TOS that I know of.

Jeff-

It is in fact possible to connect these, however it is not intuitive at all and a bit of a struggle. I know it's possible because I have done it. I'll do my best to recall how it was accomplished.

Go to YouTube, and click on your logo on the top right corner. Click on "Switch Account" followed by clicking on "Add Account." You should now be able to enter the Google Account attached to your new G+ page.

Take it from here and let me know where you get held up. Perhaps I can help more if you give me more details. It's been awhile since I've done this.

IMO, the best solution would be to Tag your URLs with UTM Tags.

• Source: youtube
• Medium: social
• Name: annotations

With this method, you can link to anywhere on your site and get accurate data in analytics. You can learn more about them here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033867?hl=en

And, yes two your last two questions.

Use the the additional tags to specify the video content. Will allow you to attribute conversions, goals, everything in GA.