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Dolphin-Design

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Hello,

I have built a new website for myself using woocommerce.

I want to import my old website which was built in EKM powershop.

I want to use the domain from my old website and transfer it to my woocommerce website. At the same time keeping its 'Domain Authority' and all the other stuff it's built up with google over the past 4 years.

For all my pages and product pages I understand I need to setup up 301 redirects. But for the domain itself what do I do?

I want my old domain to be the new primary domain on my new woocommerce website.

I understand the hosting side of things, I'm just not sure the best way to go about it from a google point of view.

I hope that makes sense, any help would be appreciated.
 
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woocommerce is certainly not a bad choice at all. You should go ahead with it without any hesitation. All the best (Y)
 
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I'm unsure if EKM offer an export of some sort which can then be imported into WooCommerce? Other than that, you would just have to add all your products to your new Woo site.

Setup an excel document with old URL locations, to where their new locations will be. This will then need to be used for your 301 redirects as you say.

Hopefully you have Google Webmaster Tools as this will aid you in finding those urls that you didn't think of. As it crawls your site, it will tell you which pages now return a 404 not found. You then just setup another 301.

They usually say there will be a slight drop, but when the redirects are done correctly, should be back where you were in not time. It's always best to do the switch over at your quietest period.

Your hosting will have nameservers that you need to direct your domain to. For example if your domain is with 123-reg you need to go into the control panel. Click the domain, manage. Change nameservers (DNS) and input your hosts nameservers. If your hosting was with Vidahost, you would have a series of : ns1.vidacloud.co.uk, ns2, etc.

*This is an example as i'm unsure who your domain is currently with.
 
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I want to import my old website which was built in EKM powershop.

You're gonna need to add products manually I think. I doubt there is an automatic product transfer tool, although its worth Google-ing.

I want to use the domain from my old website and transfer it to my woocommerce website. At the same time keeping its 'Domain Authority' and all the other stuff it's built up with google over the past 4 years.

If its the same domain name you're using then it won't matter....It's the same domain! If its not then 301 it.

For all my pages and product pages I understand I need to setup up 301 redirects. But for the domain itself what do I do?

Again, nothing if its the same root domain.
Say I had a site called me.com that was hard-coded. And instead of the hard coded version I wanted to transfer to wordpress. I'd simply delete the code, instead wordpress on the domain and go again.... It's the same domain...
 
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tombuckland said:
Again, nothing if its the same root domain.
Say I had a site called me.com that was hard-coded. And instead of the hard coded version I wanted to transfer to wordpress. I'd simply delete the code, instead wordpress on the domain and go again.... It's the same domain...
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Wait, so you're saying that those pages that are indexed in Google don't need redirecting? Lets say you have a landing page that is indexed on page 1, position 2 for a certain keywords. You delete that page in EKM and recreate it in Woo. The URL will be different so the one that is indexed will direct you to a 404 Page Not Found. You need to redirect this to your new page...
 
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antp__ said:
Wait, so you're saying that those pages that are indexed in Google don't need redirecting? Lets say you have a landing page that is indexed on page 1, position 2 for a certain keywords. You delete that page in EKM and recreate it in Woo. The URL will be different so the one that is indexed will direct you to a 404 Page Not Found. You need to redirect this to your new page...
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Hey, yes any change in URLs need to be redirected. What I thought you were asking is about the homepage. The problem with too many redirects is it gets slightly complicated to remember what points where. If you can then try to create the same URL structure (or at least improve it so it doesn't contain numbers and is correctly optimised)
 
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Have a look at Shopify - I use it for my ecommerce site and am really pleased with it
 
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tombuckland said:
Hey, yes any change in URLs need to be redirected. What I thought you were asking is about the homepage. The problem with too many redirects is it gets slightly complicated to remember what points where. If you can then try to create the same URL structure (or at least improve it so it doesn't contain numbers and is correctly optimised)
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Not really how the original message came across so I'd go into more detail in future to make sure people aren't getting confused. Seems like you were saying delete the old site, start a new one and all is fine.

You were commenting on this: For all my pages and product pages I understand I need to setup up 301 redirects.

Say I had a site called me.com that was hard-coded. And instead of the hard coded version I wanted to transfer to wordpress. I'd simply delete the code, instead (which I guess meant to say install) wordpress on the domain and go again.... It's the same domain...
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So not just the homepage.


Something like screaming frog could help with this i'm sure (not something I have used personally as i'm not a digital marketer by day). Export a list of your URLs in CSV format and to the right put the new urls. This is a worksheet you can then make your way through with the 301 redirects?

It's not an easy task for someone new to SEO i'd agree. But something that is certainly worth learning about (pointed at the OP) for future redirects that may need doing. For example services that are no longer offered but are indexed for keywords. Direct to a different (maybe new) service to push link juice.

Shopify is easy to use but if the OP is trying to expand i think they will have already outgrown this. They are coming away from a hosted solution (EKM). You eventually see the limitations of these solutions, especially when you need a simple solution but have to pay an extra $20 pcm for an addon.

Woocommerce is again, easy to use and develop for beginners but need to remember it was always a blogging platform with an addon for ecommerce (woocommerce).

As @antropy has already mentioned, OpenCart is a very popular solution by shop owners. Many say its very easy to use. Call me stupid but I just couldn't get on with it myself. DOH.
 
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Export your data in SQL, then use the woocommerce SQL example and match up the columns.

You can also use the WP Import Plugin it will easily solve your problem.
 
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