Tips for migrating Google News traffic?
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We are about to relaunch a site that gets a lot of Google News traffic.
We are not changing domain, but the site structure is changing greatly, with the URLs of both news index pages and articles being shaken up.
Obviously, we've 301-ed every page to its closest equivalent on the new site. We've also got a news sitemap.
As we are not changing domain, is there anything further we need to do to help protect our Google News traffic.
On a related note, does anyone have a relaible way of measuring traffic from Google News listings in universal search?
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In reference to measuring traffic from Google News' search, I think it is based on freshness.
If you 301 redirected all the old pages to the new page, it should be all you need to do.
If anything, Google News might reindexed the new site's articles.
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