I have a multi domain install that the client has asked to consolidate into one site for SEO purposes.
The problem is that the sites are each under their own home node with different settings for each site.
I was wondering rather than trying to copy all the content into one site is there anything that could be done with URL redirects to make the sites look/behave as though they are under one root?
Cheers Adam. One of the only ways around this I can think of is to copy the nodes of the top level sites under the root of the consolidated site. Then go through the code and make sure everything works.
we tackled a similar problem when we did a multisite multilingual per site implementation. luckily we were doing it from scratch though so we had the main website node where we set the hostname then a number of language specific home pages below that.
website root /bob /dave
then the urls will be website.com/bob and website.com/dave
The pages Bob and Dave are their own homepage document types including site settings.
It sounds like it's the same thing as you copying your nodes over to the consolidated site. I think that will be more manageable especially if it IS a single site. You would hope that if it was developed properly then everything would work...
You might want to recreate those home page document types and give them their own settings (because the "website root" page will still maintain some global settings) before moving the nodes across.
Thanks for takign the time to respond Joel. The client set up multiple sites for different parts of their business and have been advised by a SEO company to bring them under one domain. For SEO reasons I think it is the right approach.
I was thinking that bringing the different top level root nodes under one node would mean a lot of the xslt and custom code might need to be altered and was originally thinking that URL redirects would be a good way to handle it, as it could ultimatly save the client money. The more I think about it I think the best way is to move all the nodes under a new root.
It is great to get feedback on this so thanks to anyone who comments.
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I have a multi domain install that the client has asked to consolidate into one site for SEO purposes.
The problem is that the sites are each under their own home node with different settings for each site.
I was wondering rather than trying to copy all the content into one site is there anything that could be done with URL redirects to make the sites look/behave as though they are under one root?
I suppose it depends on what content is in each site?
Could you not write something that bounced the user to each node based on the URL i.e.
www.site.com/bob - would bounce the user to home node1
www.site.com/dave - would bounce the user to home node2
www.site.com/fred - would bounce the user to home node3
Can you not add these in Umbraco as hostnames?
I'm sure you could set some URL rewriting rule to bounce the user to the node, or use IIS virtual directories somehow?
I'm no techy though...just thinking :)
Cheers Adam. One of the only ways around this I can think of is to copy the nodes of the top level sites under the root of the consolidated site. Then go through the code and make sure everything works.
we tackled a similar problem when we did a multisite multilingual per site implementation. luckily we were doing it from scratch though so we had the main website node where we set the hostname then a number of language specific home pages below that.
website root
/bob
/dave
then the urls will be website.com/bob and website.com/dave
The pages Bob and Dave are their own homepage document types including site settings.
It sounds like it's the same thing as you copying your nodes over to the consolidated site. I think that will be more manageable especially if it IS a single site. You would hope that if it was developed properly then everything would work...
You might want to recreate those home page document types and give them their own settings (because the "website root" page will still maintain some global settings) before moving the nodes across.
good luck!
Thanks for takign the time to respond Joel. The client set up multiple sites for different parts of their business and have been advised by a SEO company to bring them under one domain. For SEO reasons I think it is the right approach.
I was thinking that bringing the different top level root nodes under one node would mean a lot of the xslt and custom code might need to be altered and was originally thinking that URL redirects would be a good way to handle it, as it could ultimatly save the client money. The more I think about it I think the best way is to move all the nodes under a new root.
It is great to get feedback on this so thanks to anyone who comments.
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