Should Bizdustry rebrand?

[Alex]

Perhaps a total rebrand wouldn’t be a bad idea as it’s no longer Admin Junkies. But best of luck to the merge and congrats on the acquisition.

Perhaps you could also merge invisioneer, Joel? 😋

We’re also considering to rebrand completely, but there are a number of factors to consider. Biggest concern is that you’ll loose all SEO Strength.

 

[joelr]

Perhaps a total rebrand wouldn’t be a bad idea as it’s no longer Admin Junkies. But best of luck to the merge and congrats on the acquisition.

Perhaps you could also merge invisioneer, Joel? 😋

InvisionJunkdustry??
BizJunkieseer?

😆

 

[Cedric]

We’re also considering to rebrand completely, but there are a number of factors to consider. Biggest concern is that you’ll loose all SEO Strength.

There isn't much SEO strength here. And when merging both, you'll need to restart somewhat anyway. Crawlers will do their work and that's that. 301's need to be in place and you're good to go.

InvisionJunkdustry??
BizJunkieseer?

😆

BizJunkies!

But cool, you'll be the biggest and baddest webmaster forum with 1.2 million posts gathered over 10 years. What's your next acquisition, Joel?

 

[Alex]

InvisionJunkdustry??
BizJunkieseer?

😆

BizJunkies

Come on Joel, you know you want to 🤣

 

[Dan The Man]

It doesn't really matter to me but if there was a commitment to rebranding, I would highly recommend replacing the word 'junkies' as it has a negative connotation and doesn't ad any SEO value.

 

[Cedric]

It doesn't really matter to me but if there was a commitment to rebranding, I would highly recommend replacing the word 'junkies' as it has a negative connotation and doesn't ad any SEO value.

That's not actually entirely true. It doesn't have any negative impact, as it's not blocked by Google. Only unless you start having malicious content will it really have a negative impact. Could it be better? Sure, no one's going to type in "admin" and "junkies" unless you know the website.

 

[Dan The Man]

That's not actually entirely true. It doesn't have any negative impact, as it's not blocked by Google. Only unless you start having malicious content will it really have a negative impact. Could it be better? Sure, no one's going to type in "admin" and "junkies" unless you know the website.

My point is the phrase junky/junkies is usually a derogative term with a negative connotation, relating to drug addiction, therefore if @joelr decides to rebrand, it's worth considering. For example, the phrase 'webmaster' or 'business' in the domain name would have more practically and SEO benefit.

 

[Carlos]

We’re also considering to rebrand completely, but there are a number of factors to consider. Biggest concern is that you’ll loose all SEO Strength.

I would advise against a rebrand until after the merge has already been done. I did a rebrand, and I'm kinda regretting parts of the rebrand. What I did in the rebrand is refresh the database completely. Killing all SEO. So, you BEST have all the links retained. Anytime.

The old website had like thousands and thousands of inbound traffic. Without any pagerank, you can never recover.

Just merge the database into Admin Junkies first, then consider the rebrand. That way, all requests from domain "A" to domain "B" is maintained. I did this in the transition from PS4Forum to PS5Forum. PS4Forum was on vB4, and I converted the database into xenForo, then put redirects in place so the parking of PS5Forum was strong enough.

With DestroyRepeat, my original plan was to keep everything the way it was, without any issue. But I discovered exploits and I'd known about it for a while now. I was planning to refresh the database, but keep the old links, but what I did is not maintained the old ID's because I'd need to remember the password for MY username/pass. Or something else. I forget which. Either way, that was a bad move, so all those thousands of inbound traffic? Gone.

So, y'all need a plan.

 

[Calamity]

I would advise against a rebrand until after the merge has already been done. I did a rebrand, and I'm kinda regretting parts of the rebrand. What I did in the rebrand is refresh the database completely. Killing all SEO. So, you BEST have all the links retained. Anytime.

The old website had like thousands and thousands of inbound traffic. Without any pagerank, you can never recover.

Just merge the database into Admin Junkies first, then consider the rebrand. That way, all requests from domain "A" to domain "B" is maintained. I did this in the transition from PS4Forum to PS5Forum. PS4Forum was on vB4, and I converted the database into xenForo, then put redirects in place so the parking of PS5Forum was strong enough.

With DestroyRepeat, my original plan was to keep everything the way it was, without any issue. But I discovered exploits and I'd known about it for a while now. I was planning to refresh the database, but keep the old links, but what I did is not maintained the old ID's because I'd need to remember the password for MY username/pass. Or something else. I forget which. Either way, that was a bad move, so all those thousands of inbound traffic? Gone.

So, y'all need a plan.

This was very insightful!

 

[Nomad]

Rebranding can actually work if you use proper strategies. Many years ago, I joined a site called oDesk, and now it is called Upwork. There were no changes except the brand name. I do not know if anyone remembers a content site called Squidoo, it merged with Hubpages and decided to shut down.

 

[Jason]

All the backlinks that made Bizdustry have high metrics are still pointing to Bizdustry, so all it has to do is start over.

 

[cpvr]

All the backlinks that made Bizdustry have high metrics are still pointing to Bizdustry, so all it has to do is start over.

A 301 redirect will still transfer all those backlinks to the new site’s url as long as the old urls redirect to the new url.

 

[Jason]

A 301 redirect will still transfer all those backlinks to the new site’s url as long as the old urls redirect to the new url.

So admin-junkies would get a huge SEO boost at the former level of Bizdustry?

 

[cpvr]

So admin-junkies would get a huge SEO boost at the former level of Bizdustry?

Bizindustry does not have the same SEO impact that Adminjunkies currently has. According to SEMrush, Adminjunkies has over 1.1 million backlinks, while Bizindustry has a total of 34,158 backlinks. This means Adminjunkies has significantly more incoming backlinks, which makes its content easier to rank and index. Adminjunkies will get a boost in rankings due to its stronger backlink profile compared to Bizindustry. Based on authority and topical relevance, Bizindustry does not have a better impact on SEO than adminjunkies.