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Ning to Jamroom migration and SEO

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jamesh
@jamesh
9 years ago
16 posts
I am investigating the feasibility of shifting from Ning to Jamroom, in fact the Jamroom team are working on my import currently. So far so good, one major issue I must address is SEO, my 5 year established Ning site is very well indexed by the major search engines and that must continue for this migration to be successful.

How do I go about ensuring that my search traffic remains intact following a migration of this nature?

Have you migrated to Jamroom already? What would you do differently?

updated by @jamesh: 03/16/15 10:36:33AM
paul
@paul
9 years ago
4,326 posts
Presumably you will be pointing the existing Ning domain to the new JR site?
One thing you can then do is install and setup the URL Mapper module. This can 'translate' some of the Ning URLs to their JR equivalents.


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist
jamesh
@jamesh
9 years ago
16 posts
Eventually I would point my domain to the Jamroom site yes, but not until I can be sure that I can retain my organic search traffic. How does the URL mapper work?
paul
@paul
9 years ago
4,326 posts
It would work after the Ning domain was switched to the Jamroom site.
If a Ning URL is browsed that doesn't exist on the JR site, but there is an equivalent, it can be mapped.
Here are the module's default settings. They can be edited and more added.

/photo => /gallery
/profiles/blog/list => /blog
/events => /event
/groups => /group
/profiles/members => /profile

So the Ning URL /photo which lists all photos would map to /gallery which does the same thing in JR.


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Paul Asher - JR Developer and System Import Specialist
Strumelia
Strumelia
@strumelia
9 years ago
3,603 posts
Paul, would this URL mapper module also work if one's ning url is mysite.ning.com... and that network was going to be deleted by Ning completely after I'm live on JR for a month or so?


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Migrated from Ning to Jamroom June 2015
brian
@brian
9 years ago
10,148 posts
Strumelia:
Paul, would this URL mapper module also work if one's ning url is mysite.ning.com... and that network was going to be deleted by Ning completely after I'm live on JR for a month or so?

Unfortunately no - Ning is in control of the "ning.com" domain, and they likely would not "update" their DNS to point that domain name to your Jamroom site (in fact I would say there is ZERO chance of that). Without the domain "pointing" to your Jamroom site then Jamroom can't "see" the URL to reroute it.

I suspect the URL Mapper is really only going to help those Ning users that had their own domain mapped to their Ning site.

Let me know if that helps.


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Brian Johnson
Founder and Lead Developer - Jamroom
https://www.jamroom.net

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