How do you pass G+'s to a new domain?
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If a company wants to change it's domain, will they lose all the g+ 1's they had with the original domain? Is there a way to "redirect" those pluses to the new site?
Thanks,
Ruben
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In my limited experience, 301's will redirect +1's, as Arjen said.
For example, this page http://moz.com/blog/how-to-rank gained most of it's +1's before a 301 redirect, and those plus 1's are now associated with the page.
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Changing domain name will cause you to loose G+ 1's. However 301 redirects can tranfer the G+ 1's from one page to another.
Google is really smart in following 301 redirects. I have personal experience with G+ 1's being forwarded from an old URL to the new one. We made a big change in the structure of our website. We moved all language specific pages to a specific sub folder per language. We 301 redirected all the old pages and this caused all G+ 1's to show up for the new pages.
PS: cannot guarantee if this works with 301 redirects from one domain to the other.
PS: 301 redirect do NOT work to transfer facebook likes from one page to another -
Hi Mark,
Yes, it's definitely helpful and I always appreciate any responses I get. I feel like the answer lies somewhere in the personal vs company G+ page (that's what I've been looking into) but I haven't figured it out just yet.
Thanks,
Ruben
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Might be worth calling Google to see what they can do for you, I know i've had experiences where we have had things migrated over for other issues. Mine weren't specifically G+ related but I can see the concern to keep the social metric going with a redirect.
I guess the other thing would be 301 redirects, also is the G+ page a personal profile or company page? Could try for a company rename if its a page?
Hope my help is in some way useful for you.
A fellow Moz user
Mark
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