Tagged “migrations”
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Moving Content Between a Subdomain and a Subdirectory
What actually changes when blog.example.com becomes example.com/blog: host boundaries, robots and sitemap scope, redirect mapping, and geo signals.
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Cross-Domain Canonicals and When They Hold
A canonical tag can point at another hostname. What has to be true for that to be honoured, and the six ways it quietly gets ignored.
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Preserving Links Through a Site Migration
The redirect map is the migration. How to build one from the URLs that actually matter, and the order of operations on launch day.
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Serving 503 During Planned Downtime
How to take a site offline without losing index coverage: what 503 tells a crawler, how long it stays tolerant, and the codes that go wrong instead.
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Retiring a Page That Still Has Inbound Links
A decision path for killing a URL other sites point at: when to redirect, when to merge, when to leave it up, and when 410 is honest.
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Where to Put a Redirect: Edge, Server, or Application
The same 301 behaves differently depending on which layer emits it. Latency, visibility, deploy coupling, and the shadowing that hides broken rules.