: Should I remove a Tumblr blog that I moved to my own server? This is relate to How to move a Tumblr blog without hurting PageRank? question. I used custom domain for Tumblr for about a week,

@Goswami781

I don't know this is a good idea, but this is what I have done right now:

First of all, I edited all my posts in tumblr and replaced contents with a link that points to corresponding post on my new address.

Then, I changed RSS, archive and page url's on my tumblr theme to point to my new domain.

Then, I have put this on head section on my theme file:

{block:PermalinkPage}
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;URL='http://newdomain.com/{Permalink}'" />
{/block:PermalinkPage}


So that, when someone goes to a post page, he will be redirected to newdomain.com/http://olddomain.com/post/postid
Then, I edited title block in theme file to look like this:

{block:Title}<a href="http://newdomain.com/{Permalink}" class="h2 title">{Title}


That way, index pages will write newdomain.com/http://olddomain.com/post/postid as url, instead of olddomain.com/post/postid
Finally, I added this to my .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,}s/+http://[^/]+([^s]+) [NC]
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,L,NE]


See: stackoverflow.com/questions/19255718/how-to-write-this-301-rule-in-htaccess
The reason I didn't keep my old redirects is that, I like my new blog better than tumblr blog, and I also already paid for my hosting, so I didn't want to make it sit idle.

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@Murray432

Go back to Tumblr and keep the redirects for now. When I changed the URL structure for my site, it took 2-3 months for the number of visitors to bounce back up again, so it probably takes Google that long to notice all of the 301's and transfer the link juice accordingly.

Keeping both blogs online under different url's would not only hurt you for duplicate content (though probably only slightly), but you'll also lose all of the backlinks to those url's and you'll have to start from scratch again.

Edit: I didn't notice you only used it for about a week. You probably won't have a lot of backlinks yet, so it won't hurt you that much. Of course, people that read your blog might not know the new url and you might lose a few readers.

What do you mean in your last sentence?

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