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Best Practice for Moving a Blog

Hi, we've had blog.magickitchen.com for a number of years. We'll be moving it to magickitchen.com/blog, for better SEO, and to have it on the same servers as the website.

I've transferred over about 60 or so articles to the new system.(new system isn't live yet, unfortunately you won't see it.)

I plan to do a permanent redirect of blog.magickitchen.com to magickitchen.com/blog.

Is it worth taking each article I've transferred over and doing a permanent redirect on those? EG:
RedirectPermanent /2016/09/02/seniors-fall-is-the-best-time-to-get-out-and-get-active/ https://www.magickitchen.com/blog/seniors-fall-is-the-best-time-to-get-out-and-get-active/57

Thanks!

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David Favor

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David Favor

Over the years, I've seen some people get into very bad binds using 301s which were broken, especially during launches... where income zeros out for all repeat visitors, because a redirect is processed differently than the site owner expects.

If you're generating a significant amount of cash from your site, likely best for you to hire someone who works through these issues every day, to work through your entire design to ensure you end up with increasing conversions/sales, rather than decreasing...

Melody Scott

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Thanks, David! The site currently has no SEO juice and we're generating zero revenue from it, so I'll take your advice, use 302s and carry on!