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I checked with my hosting support and they confirmed the alias is a 301.   So I don't need to do anything. redirect-wise.

After the new site is in place. is it worth it to re-work our old .htaccess file so it points to the new site?

Stephen

We are rebranding our store with a new name. We have purchased a NewDomainName.  Can I just make the "Old Domain Name" an alias for the "NewDomainName"?

The site will not change in any other way than having a new logo.  This is an e-commerce site with over 100 categories of artisan made products.  So once we move the site, the old domain will be empty.

Thank you

Stephen

Thank you--   That's looks like a great resource- still working on this and appreciate your input

Stephen

Dandelion-

I'll look at both those and let you know

Stephen

Hi Dandelion and Thank You for the response..

When you said "Then set up 404's for the popular but discontinued image" did you mean to say "set up 301's"?

And may I ask how do you discover exact images?  I am not using wordpress and don't know of any add-ons that help ..

Best wishes

Stephen 
(sorry for the delay in responding-- been having email issues..)

What do you lose by deleting a product and it's images from an e-commerce site? We have many product images with pinterest pins and shares or that show up on google images searches. Our site is an active American craft gallery with jewelry, art and handmade gifts from about 300 different artists. Most products are made in small quantities others are 1 of a kind. So we often have products selling out.  Most items are organized by artist.

Are there good practices to follow that will best keep our social media presence and links?  I'd also like to stop buying extra space for all those images on my server

Thanks so much

Stephen

Thank you- just what I needed

I am getting alot of hits from blexhn30.webmeup.com.   My web host says it could be a web service. Is this part of moz local activity?  Otherwise I want to block it. Have you seen this before??

Some of my art object products have words and phrases  engraved on them. The words  relate to the images on the product. In the product descriptions, I have been putting quotes around the entire list. Would I get better long tail results if I didn't use the quotation marks?   In other words, do the quotes make everything between them an exact match phrase?

For example:
Current product description: 
The worlds around the edge of the lazy susan read, "Explore nature. Dream big. Take time to smell the flowers. Enjoy the changing seasons. Seize the day. Relish the night. Live life to the fullest."

Thank you for helping with this, all comments on how to present this kind of content are welcomed-

Stephen

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Thank you Jane-

Can you tell me what the "Options +FollowSymLinks" is for?

And by the way, after everything is 301'd would you keep the old site hosted forever?

Best wishes

Stephen

Hi Jorge,

On our craft gallery site our category pages are most important because the products under them change.

We use the category pages to hold common information.  For instance, we have a category for handcrafted lazy susans.  On that category page we detail care, alternate sizes available and how they are made.

On a different category page we may have a glossary of terms used on the products page. This avoids duplicate content on those product pages.  It also sets the stage for linking from the product pages back to the common information. This ought to signal the importance of the category to google.

Best wishes

Handcrafter

We are rebranding our store with a new name. We have purchased a NewDomainName.  Can I just make the "Old Domain Name" an alias for the "NewDomainName"?

The site will not change in any other way than having a new logo.  This is an e-commerce site with over 100 categories of artisan made products.  So once we move the site, the old domain will be empty.

Thank you

Stephen