Changing the technology and design of your publishing site can be a daunting affair. Here's a look at what to do and, more importantly, what not to do.
Hello, what are your thought on large scale content removals of a website, i have a website that has content in three languages, i want to just keep one language. Do i have to redirect other two languages to the corrosponding main language after removal?
It does not make sense if someone look for a russian content and we redirect it to Farsi, i am a little bit confused.
Without knowing all the details, my initial thought is that it's probably OK to just delete the other language pages and serve 404 or 410 status codes for those.
During migration, we also reviewed our taxonomy and lots of old urls were mapped to new topics.
As a result, we ended up with a huge list of redirect chains for internal links in the body of the article as on top of existing redirects on the legacy site we now also have redirects to the new urls on the new platform.
Should I try to fix them all? Fix only for recent (one-year-old content) stories? Or just leave it as it is and don't worry about it?
Yeah I'd try to fix those, especially recent ones. If it's too big a job, focus on fixing redirects in new(ish) articles, and always fix redirects from internal links in boilerplate content (navigation, footer links, sidebars, etc.).
Hello, I have a question. You said "Recently I’ve seen it work myself in another instance, where a new domain name was added to Publisher Center as an additional URL several months before the migration. When the site was finally moved to the new domain, it took only two days for the new domain’s articles to start appearing in Top Stories."
Actually I have a website that was approved on Google News via the Inclusion system previously available on Google Webmaster. My team member applied in June or July 2019. That's I don't have it's publisher center access.
Later, I reach out to Google News and get the publisher center access. But it was in draft.
But the Publication URL showing.
However, Currently everything working well. New articles are indexing on Google search and News Section. But, I am getting very low traffic from Top Stories. Even, I can't see my site in Top Stories in any keywords when I search on Google.
That's why I want to migrate the site to a new domain.
Meanwhile, Google has removed the manually application system via the Publisher Center.
For this reason, there is no way to submit the draft application for review.
What is the best way to migrate the website to new website, because I don't have publisher center access.
Hello, what are your thought on large scale content removals of a website, i have a website that has content in three languages, i want to just keep one language. Do i have to redirect other two languages to the corrosponding main language after removal?
It does not make sense if someone look for a russian content and we redirect it to Farsi, i am a little bit confused.
Without knowing all the details, my initial thought is that it's probably OK to just delete the other language pages and serve 404 or 410 status codes for those.
During migration, we also reviewed our taxonomy and lots of old urls were mapped to new topics.
As a result, we ended up with a huge list of redirect chains for internal links in the body of the article as on top of existing redirects on the legacy site we now also have redirects to the new urls on the new platform.
Should I try to fix them all? Fix only for recent (one-year-old content) stories? Or just leave it as it is and don't worry about it?
Yeah I'd try to fix those, especially recent ones. If it's too big a job, focus on fixing redirects in new(ish) articles, and always fix redirects from internal links in boilerplate content (navigation, footer links, sidebars, etc.).
Hello, I have a question. You said "Recently I’ve seen it work myself in another instance, where a new domain name was added to Publisher Center as an additional URL several months before the migration. When the site was finally moved to the new domain, it took only two days for the new domain’s articles to start appearing in Top Stories."
My questions;
1) How much was the age of the new domain?
2) Have you changed the design on the new site?
Please let me know.
1. It was registered years ago by the same brand but had not been used up to then.
2. No, the design stayed the same. Minimal changes, just a domain switch, to minimise the impact and isolate any potential issues.
Thank You dear for your reply.
Actually I have a website that was approved on Google News via the Inclusion system previously available on Google Webmaster. My team member applied in June or July 2019. That's I don't have it's publisher center access.
Later, I reach out to Google News and get the publisher center access. But it was in draft.
But the Publication URL showing.
However, Currently everything working well. New articles are indexing on Google search and News Section. But, I am getting very low traffic from Top Stories. Even, I can't see my site in Top Stories in any keywords when I search on Google.
That's why I want to migrate the site to a new domain.
Meanwhile, Google has removed the manually application system via the Publisher Center.
For this reason, there is no way to submit the draft application for review.
What is the best way to migrate the website to new website, because I don't have publisher center access.
Please help me. It will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.