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Hi Ryan,

Even in WordPress Multisite?

I love a good White Board Friday thank you, I will definitely give that a watch.

Tom

Hi Guys,

Thank you for your quick response. If I did use WordPress Multi-Site to build the subfolders for the different countries, would they pass "link juice" between them?

Hi, My company have offices around the world. However they also provide different services and products depending on the region. For example our offices in the USA, UK and Australia all provide different services to each other.

My question is, how do I set up my WordPress website up to cater for these different countries and services?

I think the simple answer would be to build a separate website for each, but this would be too costly and we don't have the resources to maintain all three.

Many thanks for your time,

Tom

I'm asking this question due to the following scenario:

When we have videos produced by Third Party video companies they upload the video to their YouTube account before us (the customer), has chance to upload it to ours.

If this was an article that was uploaded to the web then the website uploading it first would be classed as the original piece and all other website uploading the article would be considered duplicates and not rank (As I believe).

Hence my question, does YouTube work in the same way and hence our videos when searched in YouTube be secondary to our Third Party video companies as they are posting them first?

Regards,

Tom

Many thanks guys, I think I get what your saying.

From what I understand I could just do this...

I build up a new wordpress website on a different hosting account. Within the .htaccess file I create my 301's. Then once I point the domain from the old hosting and website to my new one everything should work fine?

Again many thanks for your help.

Hi guys,

Thanks for replying. Wondered however how you would get both the files to sit on the same hosting?

I know that windows can take both PHP and ASP.NET but I have heard that windows hosting for WordPress is not as straight forward as Linux. Is it still possible to perform 301 redirects for both sets of files in Linux?

Regards,

Tom

Hi all,

I'm trying to migrate my current website over to wordpress however my current website is ASP.NET and obviously Wordpress uses PHP.

Is it possible to perform a 301 redirect from a asp.net to a php?

Or do you need to convert the asp.net language into php?

Or something different?

I welcome your thoughts?

Regards,

Thomas Rochford

I would like to migrate my current website, which is asp.net, to WordPress. However the current asp.net is sitting on hosting which is windows based and WordPress isn't very compatible.

Do I need to migrate hosting to a Linux based hosting provider? But if I do can I still migrate the asp.net files from my current website so I can 301 redirect?

Any help on this would be great.

Regards,

Tom

I think that WordPress.com is banned, but are websites that are created by WordPress get banned?

Thanks EGOL, Shane and Peter.

The good news is that we own the domain, what isn't so great is that we don't own the hosting (Big lesson learned here).

Some how I need to take control of the hosting.

Thanks everyone for all your help, I'm truly grateful.

Tom

Thanks Shane, that's great advice.

From what I understand to be able to implement 301 redirects I need access to the .htaccess file. Would domain control rights / name servers provide me with this?

I want to come away from our third party web developer and use a new website with different web developers, however the web developer wont 301 redirect the old url's to the new ones. Is he required to do this by law? Is there away of doing the 301 redirects without him?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Many thanks,Tom

Basically my current web developer is not providing me with what a modern website should need to fully utilize online marketing and SEO in terms of blogging, social media widgets, e-commerce and so on. Because of this I have thought of moving to a wordpress.org website run and built by myself.

Is this a good idea?

What is the best way to migrate and save existing authority (Re-directs etc)?

Is there any potential risks or problems that I could encounter that aren't immediate obvious?

Many thanks!

Tom

Can you recommend anyone to host a website with in China?

Unfortunately the site is not wordpress so I dont think I'lll be able to use WPMU DEV for my site.

Thanks

Basically my webdeveloper has suggested that instead of using a subfolder to create an English and Korean version of the site I should create two different websites and then link them both together to provide the page in English, or in Korean, which ever the case may be.

My immediate reaction is that search engines may perceive this kind of linking to be manipulative, as you can imagine there will be a lot of links (One for every page).

Do you think it is OK to create two webpages and link them together page by page?

Or do you think that the site will get penalized by search engines for link farming or link exchanging.

Regards,

Tom

Hi Tom,

As always I'm very grateful for your input. I was told that the Chinese Authorities did not like .com websites using subfolders to target Chinese consumers. However, this was not a credible source and thought I should ask on the Moz community.

By the way, congratulations on becoming one of the top 10 influencers in the Moz community!

Always enjoy reading your thoughts,

Many thanks,

Tom

Thanks Lynn,

I appreciate this is a tough question to answer but I think you have a given me some great information.

Much appreciated,

Tom