What Happens to the Existing YouMoz Blog Post URL If It Is Promoted to the Main SEOmoz Blog?
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Howdy SEOmoz Fans,
Im wondering what happens to an existing YouMoz blog post if it gets promoted to the main SEOmoz blog? Does SEOmoz do a 301 redirect to the new URL? It seems like the old post disappears, but perhaps I'm not digging deep enough.
Anyone have experience with this happening on SEOmoz? I'd like to know so I can figure out how to do something similar to that on one of my own sites (promoting UGC to a main blog).
Thanks!
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That's a good point.
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Hint Hint: Those redirects starting with /ugc/ pointing to /blog/ are stored somewhere, right ?
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The social shares are reset, which is a bummer, but I've also seen people often get two entries into Inbound and other social sites since there are now two different URLs.
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The 301s are automagically created for us.
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I honestly don't know if we will have this type of feature in the near future. It's something I'd certainly like, but it may not be something that's easy to code on the back end.
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Very true. The original social share stats would go away. Interesting dilema there. I've noticed that for a WordPress site I run where If I change the URL, all the Social Share stats are reset.
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Automating something like that would be key. Thanks for the tips.
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It would certainly be cool to see a category for posts that were promoted. Great idea.
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Now, that's a good point Keri. Does that mean it "might" be coming soon ?
"there's not a category for looking at all YouMoz posts that have been promoted to the main blog."
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It's a 301, and the post no longer shows in the YouMoz area, but instead on the main blog.
The one downside is that there's not a category for looking at all YouMoz posts that have been promoted to the main blog.
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Hey Scott,
Kelsey Libert's post was promoted. You can navigate to http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/the-blogger-outreach-equation to see what happens. 301 redirect to http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-blogger-outreach-equation.
You can also use this tool on the first link to show the redirect as well: http://www.ragepank.com/redirect-check/.
Good post sir!
P.S. On a side note, I'm guessing here, but I'd imagine a process has been built to automatically create the 301 redirect via their content management system when posts are promoted. I wouldn't think they'd manually update every time. So you may want to consider doing the same.
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I personally haven't had this happen, but I have a few friends who have had their posts promoted. I'm pretty sure it is a 301 Redirect. What happens is your post gets syndicated to a lot more people (more people subscribe to the main blog than the UGC).
An interesting thing that my friend made me aware of is that if your YouMoz post does get upgraded to the main blog, you lose all the social shares of it as a YouMoz Post, personally I think Moz should try to fix that , but it may be impossible (because if they keep both posts then it's duplicate content, unless they noindex the page, but I digress).
Depending on the volume, I might just want to integrate both blogs into one, but delineate the equivalent of a YouMoz post as a "Guest Post" which is what YouMoz is.
Hope this helps
Zach
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