Subdirectory site / 301 Redirects / Google Search Console

[HimalayanInstitute]

Hi There,

I'm a web developer working on an existing WordPress site (Site #1) that has 900 blog posts accessible from this URL structure: www.site-1.com/title-of-the-post

We've built a new website for their content (Site #2) and programmatically moved all blog posts to the second website. Here is the URL structure: www.site-1.com/site-2/title-of-the-post

Site #1 will remain as a normal company site without a blog, and Site #2 will act as an online content membership platform.

The original 900 posts have great link juice that we, of course, would like to maintain. We've already set up 301 redirects that take care of this process. (ie. the original post gets redirected to the same URL slug with '/site-2/' added.

My questions:

• Do you have a recommendation about how to best handle this second website in Google Search Console? Do we submit this second website as an additional property in GSC? (which shares the same top-level-domain as the original)

• Currently, the sitemap.xml submitted to Google Search Console has all 900 blog posts with the old URLs. Is there any benefit / drawback to submitting another sitemap.xml from the new website which has all the same blog posts at the new URL.

Your guidance is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[Fabian001]

@HimalayanInstitute Since its the same domain, there is no pressing need to submit as an additional property in GSC. You can filter down to the blog file path from there.

There is no harm though in having an additional property in order to handle data for your blog more efficiently. Although, I do not believe that there is any additional benefit like increased crawling should you create this additional property.

Definitely recommend resubmitting your sitemap to signal to Google that a large change in URLs has just occurred.