Archiving posts after migration

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    vonovo · Member ·

    My client has requested to migrate their .com blog posts to their .org site. Although I have no experience with .com sites, I am familiar with how to accomplish the migration so that’s no problem. But they have now asked to keep their .com blog live after the migration. They want it to act as a living archive – they have 10 years of posts but we are only migrating the last 3 years to their .org site.

    I have reservations about this for a few reasons:

    1. duplicate content and the potential for penalties from Google
    2. their current users could get confused on where they should be viewing the client’s posts/content. (the subscribe button will be removed so no new users will be able to sign up)
    3. SEO dilution – I believe the client’s content should not be split up across 2 online properties.

      4. Since I don’t have any previous experience with .com sites, does anyone have advice on any further reasons they should not keep their .com site live beyond a reasonable length of time to allow current users to update their bookmarks?

  • staff-zinnia · Staff ·

    Hi –

    Thanks for getting in touch.

    You’ll need to create a site export to move the content, the specific details can be managed directly in the process.

    Export Your Website’s Content

    Those are legitimate concerns re: SEO. It sounds like the best option would be to set up a site redirect on the .com site, to point it to the new one.

    Redirect a WordPress.com Site Address

    Let me know if you have any questions about that process/set up.

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