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Looks like the two sites will attract very different types of customer.
Would it be possible to leave both sites up and see how they compare for bookings over a year, say?
If they are both producing results why not keep them both!
Bruce
Hiya,
I have been working on WestPark Hotel - Harrogate, Yorkshire, Boutique Hotel Harrogate - Home for a year or so now (very simple site, gets 30 - 40 uniques a day with 10% conversion to bookings so its doing ok). The customer has asked an old friend of theirs to develop this site The West Park Hotel. Original Harrogate Coach Inn, West Park Stray, Harrogate, North Yorkshire UK. First Class Hotel Accommodation in the Heart of Historic Harrogate and now wants to use the domain I developed to re-direct to their new site. Is the best way to do this using a cloaked/uncloaked redirect or should I just use a simple no bells and whistles forward. Point is I don't want to lose any of the traffic/pr I have generated as a result of the work I have allready done......Any thoughts appreciated.
Last edited by TheGeneral; 08-01-08 at 04:07 PM. Reason: additional information
Looks like the two sites will attract very different types of customer.
Would it be possible to leave both sites up and see how they compare for bookings over a year, say?
If they are both producing results why not keep them both!
Bruce
No can do unfortunately as the original site (the one I did, looks a bit more like a boutique hotelsite) is being replaced by the new site, so its got to be done one way or the other....I will have a chat with the boys at Google and see what they say.
301 redirect should do the trick, it tells Google it has moved permanently and all the juice should go with it.
Would agree that a 301 redirect would be best.
Domain pointing / forwarding / parking can do very odd things as Google where it picks the wrong one as the main domain. Had that happen with a major site of ours and it picked the site with virtually no backlinks - odd. Unfortunately crashed the traffic too.
Trev
Having 2 domain names pointing to the same content is the worst of all the options.
If they want to pay the bill, I will happily offer some SEO consulting about this. The free advice is to keep the existing site with its existing content - it converts so why break it?
Just gone to look at both sites and see that the first domain is no longer resolving to any hosting, so I guess the decision has already been made. The second site is duplicating the first.
What more can be said?
Clients do this sort of thing and there is not much that can be done about it, especially if the site is now being handled by someone else. It is just a bit confusing because the author meta for both sites is the same.
Yes, the decision was taken out of my hands....thanks to all of your for your help and advise which has been noted for future reference. I am just waiting now for the client to get back to me in six months....
Again, thanks
Unless the person who has done the deed knows what they are doing, I suspect that they will be crying for their old site back a lot quicker than that. The only thing that may save them is people who already know their business name.Originally Posted by TheGeneral
There are so many things wrong with the new site. And it looks like it was done by a kid who did not have any professional graphics tools nor has ever heard of search engines and browser compatibility. How can they use a gif for a gradient?
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