I am totally amazed that no one in the SEO blogosphere have not issued the Day Next project that is going on at Adobe -Macromedia. The Day Next idea is simple and great SEO review potential: mergery of adobe.com + macromedia.com. The official launch of Day Next was few days ago, so you haven't missed much. Why should you be interested:
- How search engines deal when 2 extremely high rank pages merge (I think both are/were PR9 -10)
- How search engines deal when 2 very large volume sites merge (according to yahoo over 2 million docs, google 121 million docs, msn 2,4 million docs - I think the figure above shows how screwed Google is at this moment)
- How search engines manage the huge amount of 301s etc. changes in linkage?
What happened with this case study? Thanks!
It's me again, spamming up a storm with my links to ebizbest.com... Why can't I learn?
Rand, I'll try to make some posts about this in future. Indexing and possible 301/duplicate content issues come to mind as first potential topics.
mad4, I agree...I'm even happy that they finally got accounts working.
Before anyone else asks... Is this related to current Google hickup? I personally doubt it, but wouldn't exclude it totally...
It sounds like they have their hands full just changing the layouts and finding all the old pages let alone figuring out some 301's for them all.
Great find, Keijo. Thanks for that. I wonder how well this is being implemented on the Adobe side and whether they've paid good attention to SE considerations when doing it.
I'll be very interested to see the performance - if someone is keeping a close eye on it (2K?), please do keep us in the loop.