Hello everyone,
Yesterday I was trying to merge two wordpress blogs (self hosted) into one domain and now I've got few question regarding the 301 redirect. In order to ensure that all of you get a clear picture here's what I did :
I deleted all the categories in tipsosaurus and left the default one (blogging-tips) the url structure of tipsosaurus is : /categories/ postname
so if the url was http://tipsosaurus.com/security-tips/this-is-an-example
then it became http://tipsosaurus.com/blogging-tips/this-is-an-example
then I imported all the posts in reviewsaurus and in that too the url structure is : /categories/postname/
so all the posts became http://www.reviewsaurus.com/blogging-tips/this-is-an-example/
then I applied 301 redirect on the domain level at tipsosaurus, like this : redirect 301 / http://www.reviewsaurus.com/
So, I'm wondering that will there be any problem as far as google's index is concerned because in google's index the URL is still http://tipsosaurus.com/security-tips/this-is-an-example
So, now what happens is that when someone goes to http://tipsosaurus.com/security-tips/this-is-an-example, first it goes to http://tipsosaurus.com/blogging-tips/this-is-an-example and then it goes to http://www.reviewsaurus.com/blogging-tips/this-is-an-example/
so, is it an issue or you think that redirect 301 / http://www.reviewsaurus.com/ takes care of the issue ? |