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SEO site move.
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seo-site-move
1 - Head over to Google Webmasters and add the old site
2 - Submit a sitemap for the old site
3 - Create 301 redirects to new site from old site (make pages-to-redirects, i.e. domain1.com/news - domain2.com/our-news)
4 - Add new site to Webmasters
5 - Submit a sitemap for the new site
6 - Crawl/fetch as Google on new site
7 - Crawl/fetch as Google on old site
8 - In the old sites webmaster tools, click the cog icon, and click "change of address".
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