Dividing my catalog into 2 different sites.
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Hi,
We are a wholesaler for electronics parts and accessories on our main site
Our Business for parts is more B2B. Accessories is more B2C oriented.
Right now, our catalog is not the best SEO Friendly kind. We want to move all accesories to a new site.
Now. So as not to get duplicated content, and user experience, I guess the best is remove all category pages and product pages from our main site.
That would generate lots of 404. What would be the way to handle this as we are talking about hundreds, maybe thousands of pages ?
Thanks.
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Thanks !!
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Hi Frederic,
There is a good article on this issue:
https://moz.com/ugc/301-redirects-migrating-a-new-site-from-development-to-liveGood luck!
Tymen
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Ok. I guess there must be a way to set rewrite rules for that, as that many redirects could impact my site's performance.
Have you got any recomendations on that ?
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Tymen had it correct w/301's. Setup the new site, replicate all the pages, 301 redirect them from current site (via .htaccess) and remove these pages from the preexisting site. Hundreds and low thousands (especially w/common pattern) of 301's should not be a big issue. Good luck!
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Well,
We are asked to make the new site because these 2 categories of product don't have the same audience. B2B and B2C.
Thanks for your reply.
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Hi Frederic,
Why would you want to start a new site? I would stay on the domain you are on now as this has built up history and authority. You can switch platforms on the old domain and put the new SEO proof content on there. If you really, really have to change domains you should redirect the old domains urls to the new ones (301 see: https://moz.com/learn/seo/redirection). The programmer who builts the new site should know how to redirect all of them quickly and than you are good to go!
Regards,
Tymen
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