WHEN to re-direct, before or after migration?

  • Question – WHEN do I install the re-directs? My site is in redevelopment on a dev. subdomain. I will have about 650 URLs to re-direct once I’m done. Should this be done before or after I migrate the new site to the final, actual domain? All of the internal links are relative / links. The dev site is set to no-crawl. The actual domain is currently live with the old site.

    Thanks for the help – I’m a bit above my pay grade here ??

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  • I’m looking for an answer to this as well.

    It depends on how the redirects are created. If they are relative, it is probably okay, since they won’t get in your way while you are developing.

    When I migrate from a non-WordPress site that has different URL patterns, I test out some broad patterns to make sure that they at least get turned into search terms, and then I watch the 404s for the first few days, creating new patterns to catch outliers.

    For instance, a recent book site I migrated had URLs like /book.php?isbn=123456789. I turned that into a regex redirect:

    /book.php\?isbn=(.*) => /\?s=$1

    Now, all those old links search the site for the ISBN, and they normally find one entry.

    So to answer your question, it depends, and in practice I set some up before launch, and then follow up with more based on traffic patterns.

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