Effective Web Site Promotion…

1. I’ve got a blog called "Blog A", and I want to move it to a completely new URL at "Blog B".

I’ve started moving some of my old posts over to Blog B, and deleting them as I go in Blog A. However, I notice in search engines, the original Blog A post still ranks the highest – even though it’s been removed for some time.

When I’ve moved all my blog posts over, is there some sort of code I can put in Blog A’s robots.txt file to make it clear I’ve moved my blog?

2. Many of my old blog posts that I’ve moved to Blog B include images hosted at Blog A’s domain. Will this cause me SEO issues as well? It’ll be a big job to move all the images over, but I’ll do it if it helps search engines understand that I’ve moved my blog and am not simply copying content.

Thanks!

1. According to Google, if you 301 redirect your old site (and any pages or posts) to your new URLs then you won’t suffer a penalty.

This way, even if Blog A’s posts are still appearing highest in the SERPs, any user who clicks through to them will still be brought to Blog B. It will also let the Search Engines know that your content has moved, and you shouldn’t have a problem.

Here’s an article on how to use 301 redirects:
http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

2. I would definitely rehost the images on your new domain, if that’s what you’re asking. As long as you’re not getting a significant portion of your traffic through Image Searches then you shouldn’t notice any optimization issues with transferring all of them.

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