Moved my articles; forward the SEO juice

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  tg0000 · Member · Oct 10, 2011 at 4:14 am

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  Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I’ve been blogging for eight years and finally decided to “make the plunge” to doing this pro a few months ago. Of course I’m not pro or anywhere close to yet, but hey you have to start somewhere right?

  So here’s my question/thought/dump of synaptic-reflexes:

  I used to blog at WordPress.com and moved my blog over to gottmilk.igottcha.com. I didn’t want my search engine traffic to get to confused so I replaced the body of ‘every’ single WordPress.com article with a statement that “this blog entry has moved, you can find the original entry by clicking here”. And every “click here” link goes seemlessly to the article as it now sits on gottmilk.igottch.com

  So my question is (from the perspective of a newbie), will this have any possitive or negative impact on my SEO?

  Thoughts? Insights? Dream Interpretations?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 10, 2011 at 5:12 am

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  What would be the best would be to do a 301 site redirect from the site here to the new site, and when the search engines see the 301, they will start to transfer your search engine juice over to the new site.

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  tg0000 · Member · Oct 10, 2011 at 6:41 am

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  I thought about that but I was sure to include the phrase “I used to blog at WordPress.com” to tickle the greymatter of anyone answering this question.

  The only option (that I am aware of) for doing something akin (or exactly) like 301 redirects for WordPress.com’ers is to purchase that yearly $12 option which does those redirects.

  I used to live in the 1st world (US) so $12 wasn’t a lot for me back then. But I moved to the 3rd world (Philippines) and now the dollars are a bit tougher to come by these days.

  Thanks for the reminder though, just in case I hadn’t considered that option.

  Can you think of any positive or negative SEO impact to the way that I did it however? … Thanks again.

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  tg0000 · Member · Oct 10, 2011 at 6:47 am

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  Or, in a quite related thought. I noticed that every old article at my gottmilk.igottcha.com site such as this one, has these Permalinks listed at the bottom.

  Is there any SEO benefit to having these Permalinks that actually link back to my old wordpress.com blog? I just feel like they are littering up the articles on my new site and I’d just as well delete them if they aren’t benefiting me in any way.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Oct 10, 2011 at 6:57 am

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  Those are the trackbacks showing that it was shared on Twitter. I would probably delete those as it will keep sending SEO juice to your old site, and what you want to do is let that site fade away.

  The way things are, your new site is starting from scratch. Any visitor landing on your old site of course can find the new one via the links you provided, so visitors will get there, but as far as the search engines are concerned, they will not pick up on that. My suggestion would be to leave the old site up for about 6 months and then set it to private and just wait for your new site to build up. It can take 3 months to a year just depending. When I moved, I recovered within 3 months, but I’ve done other sites for people that have taken up to a year to recover.