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HI Kate

Yes launching it globally but want to regionalise in the future. It is a company website with a blog section. www.example.com/blog.

Set up a webmaster tools account for your site. You should be able to see all the 404 error urls.

Hi

My suggestion to you is to have one website which is Responsive (http://mashable.com/2012/12/11/responsive-web-design/)

This would prevent your traffic from being diluted to a mobi and desktop site but rather serve uses with one website that is optimised for all. This goes hand  in hand with the user experience. UX and SEO works together.

Create a responsive desktop site and redirect the mobi site to it.

Hope this helps

Agree with Chris. A new account is the best option.

Hi Nikita

If the co.za site objective is a brochure site and focused on attracting business in the SA market then keep the co.za site but make sure that the content is not duplicate to .com. The blogposts you have about "Burger King Cape Town" is perfect, since its related to the local market.

For .com you want online tutorials so the focus of the 2 sites are different and therefore the keywords co.za and .com needs to rank for are different.

Hope this helps.

Hi Nikita

If you using Wordpress on the co.za domain, you can use the redirection plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/) to redirect all old urls to new.

Run Integrity,a tool to get all the urls on the site with 404 errors  (http://peacockmedia.co.uk/integrity/) export to csv and then open in excel. Then in the Excel document create another column which will then be the new url next to old one.

You can then upload this csv into the redirection plugin on the .com domain. This way you wouldn't miss any urls but also setup Webmaster tools for both sites so you can monitor 404s.

Once Google has indexed the .com urls you can delete the .co.za from Google's index.

One question: From what I can see your site is primarily for South African Audience. Why switch to .com in the first place?

Hi answers to questions below:

1. Will I have any relevant SEO problem to do 301 redirects from the old links to the new?

• If you using 301 redirects to new URLs you should not have any issues, its time consuming and no easy work around since you need to point old urls to new ones but definitely wont loose any rankings.

2. Should I do it all at the same time or do it by parts?

• If you are changing all the urls then do it at once.

3. What options do I have to avoid give not found errors / redirects for the old links?

• Use webmaster tools to assist you with not found errors. I have switched from a static html php site to Wordpress about 2 years ago with approx 2000 pages indexed. Im still receiving not found errors therefore its a good idea to monitor this daily and fix asap.

Thanks for all the responses.

It is a large site that runs on Wordpress. For the login and registration pages we are currently forcing https. It currently shows the https pages in SERPS for login and registration. Just want to be sure that if I redirect the entire website to https that it wouldn't hurt my rankings.

Will my rankings be affected if I change domain from http to https and force redirect?

Im in the process of launching a blog. The blog will be for global audience. If I wanted to target a more specific region in the future example UK would it be advisable to launch a separate blog for the UK market or how could I regionalise the posts if I kept blogging on the Global blog.

Thanks for your response! Much appreciated

I have a TLD .com and 3 microsites in different regions with the specific ccTLDs. The structure is the same and most of the content is the same. Does Google regard this as duplicate content?