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Does anyone know if moving your website between hosts & server location 3 times in a relatively short time frame (say 2 months) can have a negative impact from an seo perspective ?

Cheers
Dan

I just had a quick look on ahrefs.com and your backlinks (well the ones ahrefs have clocked anyway) have dropped by aprox 15% over relatively short timescale (since 20th Jan aprox), but that doesnt really fit your 3 month timescale but thought would mention it just in case

I cant see G+ in your social properties so definately worth developing G+ pers page/authorship and link to your content (if not already) and of course G+ company page and link that to site too

Sorry prob not much help but my 2 cents worth from having very quick look

HI Lawrence

As far as i understand it aprox 90% of the 'juice' will be preserved/passed on to the new URL

If able to change any of the external links to the new one quickly and easily then why not, to get the 100%

Thats my take on it anyway

All Best

Dan

Many Thanks Paul

I have set up a new account for the old username to catch/divert anyone using old username

Cheers

Dan

Thanks for your reply

Hi

Re: Changing Twitter Usernames/Character Length Issues:

To improve the branding of a clients Twitter username I'm about to change clients 11 character Twitter username which currently is half brand name plus a number i.e. @halfbrand99 to a full brand name plus regional suffix i.e. @fullbrandnameuk (since brand name alone not available) totalling 16 characters.

I know Twitter usernames should be as short as possible but think more important to maintain consistent brand identity across all social platforms.  I have already changed the page profile name to brand name, included brand name in bio and linked to site in bio but not sure whether to change the username or not too ?

Whats your opinion ?

• It doesnt matter, leave as is since shorter better re: character limits and rest of profile well branded

OR

• Better to change to longer branded username for consistent brand identity ?

Note:  I will be setting up new profile for old username to catch and divert any peeps using old username etc

Cheers

Dan

Thanks for responding Tom

There will be very few equivalent pages, i.e. 'blog' , 'T&c's, 'contact' etc etc since rest of site will be new content and structure.

Also from further recent research ive been carrying out since posting here its looking like Shopify doesnt support 301's anyway so think only option is to redirect the domain and to do that from within the domain registry/management control panel

Thanks for responding Streamline

There wont be any direct counterpart pages thats partly why im asking the question since essentially all new content/site structure etc

Hi

I have a client who wants to re-brand their shopify clothing store under new domain name.

Whilst still a clothing store its going to have different department structure and product pages and will hence be a different store/site.

Is there anyway to pass any of the history/authority of existing site to the new one such as 301 redirecting the top level pages of existing site to nearest equivalent pages of new site etc or best to just redirect the old site domain to the new ?

Cheers

Dan

Nice 1 ! Many thanks Ryan

It is a .com with no website, no contact details on whois apart from email address (not replied after weeks) and a p.o. box address.  Techincal and admin contacts details are there but these are who are not replying emails

All Best

Dan

Hi

Anyone know how to get contact details for a domain owner beyond those provided by the likes of whois, archive etc etc ?

Cheers

Dan

Thanks but im not looking to close down any accounts por transfer followers etc, purely and simply want to copy a Twitter list from 1 account to another, any ideas how ?

Hi Curt

I'm not sure if my situation is the same as yours but I did have an issue last week where a page was  being reported on SEMoz on page report card as not having appropriate use of Canonical (when i knew it did have).  I submitted a support ticket and the reply was that they were not getting the same result.  I ran the report again to check and the report was now saying it was being used approriately.

As a result i would suggest running the report again since maybe theres occasionally temporary glitches/bug with the report card.

All Best

Dan

Hi

Does anybody know how to transfer Twitter lists from 1 account to another ?

Twitter says this isnt possible but is anyone aware of any software that can do this (or technique) ?

Both accounts have the same owner

Many Thanks

Dan

If you delete a page (say a sub department/category page on an ecommerce store) should you 301 redirect its url to the nearest equivalent page still on the site or just delete and forget about it ?

Generally should you try and 301 redirect any old pages your deleting if you can find suitable page with similar content to redirect to.

Wont G consider it weird if you say a page has moved permenantly to such and such an address if that page/address existed before ?

I presume its fine since say in the scenario of consolidating departments on your store you want to redirect the department page your going to delete to the existing pages/department you are consolidating old departments products into ?

Thanks Dan

It is a corporate website but will have news section/blog where im looking to integrate with authorship for at least those pages

I'm really asking here about how important it is to actually have an author page in addition to what's required by G for integartion (author tag and g+ personal page integration) ?

cheers

dan

Hi

Do you need or is it preferred to have an author page on your website to best integrate and take advantage of authorship integration ?

I'm looking at Google+ instructions for setting up and doesn't mention it - saying all you need to do is as they instruct

However even if they dont require it to integrate is it still better to have one for better author signals ?

Also if you dont have a blog on your site (say you have a news page instead) can you still have an author page or does author page have to be the following format blog/author/name ?

Cheers

Dan

Thanks Irving

I do !

For example i think this looks better title for say the clothes department of a girls store:

Girls Clothes: Girls Dresses, Tops, Blouses & Coats | Girls Gift Shop

Than this:

Girls Clothes - Girls Dresses - Tops - Blouses - Coats | Girls Gift Shop

What you think ?