Moving Shopify from a Sub Domain to the Full Domain
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Apologies if this has been asked before.
Currently we have a Shopify shop on a subdomain shop.lucybee.com a blog on subdomain blog.lucybee.com and the full domain of course.
We'd now like to move everything onto Shopify on the full domain. Therefore the blog rolls into Shopify.
We'll manually move pages into Shopify.
Any advice or links to resources on how to manage would be gratefully received.
Thank you ,
Jim
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Hi Alex,
Apologies for taking so long to reply to your thorough answer (I work one day a week for this client).
This is very useful and clarifies the procedure we have to go through.
I did contact Shopify, it is a great platform and they were quite helpful concerning the apps that the platform uses but not helpful when it came to arranging the redirects.
So, thank you again for your reply, it's going to make a difference to our SEO!
Jim
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Hi Jim,
The key thing, as I'm sure you're aware, will be to manage all of your redirects! It looks to me that there will be quite a lot of duplicated/similar content from across the three existing domains that you'll want to combine, and then ensure that old pages redirect to the new content; this makes it quite complicated and will require lots of custom redirects rather than a simpler bulk https://blog.lucybee.com/* -> https://lucybee.com/blog/*
Depending upon the new structure for the shop element of your site, you might be able to use wildcard redirects (E.g. https://shop.lucybee.com/collections/* -> https://lucybee.com/products/*) but you'd obviously need to be very careful to make sure they all match up.
I'm not familiar with Shopify, but I would suggest getting in touch with them and explaining what you plan to do. If I were carrying out your project I would want to set up a dev site to make all the content and structure changes, and then prepare my redirects, before then putting the whole thing live.
A crawl of the existing three sites before you start and then a map of your redirects is probably best. You can then bulk check the old URLs once you go live to make sure you haven't missed anything. (https://httpstatus.io/)
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