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Domain migrations

Site moves to new domains that fail to preserve rankings and traffic. Every SEO Weekly story on domain migrations, newest first. 3 stories since October 2026.

  • A botched website move helped sink a $6 million brand

    Missing redirects and ads pointing at dead pages are at the centre of one SEO's breakdown of what went wrong.

    · Do not do this

  • Google may refuse to index pages after a site move

    One well known SEO thinks moving domains triggers a stricter quality check on your pages.

    · Why your traffic moved

  • Be the person who already knew

    One email a day. Under three minutes. You will hear about a Google change before it shows up in your traffic.

  • Moving your site to a new domain keeps going wrong

    Barry Schwartz asked why Google still showed an old domain four months after a move, and two SEOs said they see the same thing all the time.

    · Do not do this

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