Mapping and tracking old and new information architecture
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Howdy.
So I'm working on "example.com", which has thousands of URLs. The site is going to be redesigned, with some changes to the information architecture.
I'm trying to think of a good way to organize and account for similarities and differences between the original information architecture and the new one. This should help with building 301s.
I've downloaded a list of URLs from example.com from Open Site Explorer. What I would love to do is generate a visual "tree" of the site based on the output from Open Site Explorer. It would basically look like a pyramid with all of the subfolders branching out.
Does anybody know of a tool out there that will do this for me? Or am I going to have a long day in Excel?
Any other thoughts on working through this process are welcome.
Thank you!
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I wouldn't use OSE for this, given that they may not crawl all your urls
I suggest using a specifc cralwer that you can set to crawl the whole site. Give Xenu, Screaming frog or IIS toolkit a go to get a good idea of your urls. After you go live, make sure you have mapped all your old urls across to new ones
In my experience, a site never actually looks like a tree, people just like to describe it that way because its simple
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