Is 301 redirects a deal breaker for Migrating content or moving to new software?
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I have this forum with about 2 million posts for 16 years on root of the domain. I am looking to switch softwares but the top ones won’t help setup 301 redirects. But I can still migrate all my members and all my content (threads/posts), would Google still reindex all our content or if we don’t setup redirects would it really kill our entire traffic for a long time or maybe just a month or so? I really want to migrate to software that isn’t forum based but rather something that offers courses, chat, live video streaming, subscription based etc. and this is the only way to do so OR to set it up on an entirely new domain OR subdomain but to me that is like starting all over from scratch? I could archive the forum to read only and set it up on subdomain or another root domain - then on the archived forum setup banners and a pop up linking to the new site or new subdomain? . This is such a hard decision for us as the current forum we have had for so many years has lost members posting from 1k a day to just a handful a day, our fb group though gets 1k a day so I’m trying to revive a site into something more modern and has all the training features we can offer as well.
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@Fabian001 said in Is 301 redirects a deal breaker for Migrating content or moving to new software?:
@vbsk there is quite alot of info that you have mentioned, so correct me if i don't understand the constraints here correctly.
From what i read, if you are able to migrate the content of the forum onto your new site and retain their existing urls, then no redirects are needed.
If you are switching domains, then you can set a sitewide rule via .htaccess file or equivalent to redirect to the new domain.
Essentially, so long as the content is still on your website with no change to URL (or there is a filepath/domain name to forward all redirects to via a few rules), then this should be fairly straightforward.
yes, that is correct
From what i read, if you are able to migrate the content of the forum onto your new site and retain their existing urls, then no redirects are needed.yes, that is correct
If you are switching domains, then you can set a sitewide rule via .htaccess file or equivalent to redirect to the new domain.yes, that is correct
Essentially, so long as the content is still on your website with no change to URL (or there is a filepath/domain name to forward all redirects to via a few rules), then this should be fairly straightforward.Here is an example of modification:
[www.culturism.net](link url) this is index
and product page
[https://www.culturism.net/concentrate-proteice/dymatize-iso-100-2-2-kg.html](link url)
in the htaccess file I took into account that the main domain is changing and I had another change, I gave up .html -
@vbsk you can make from .htaccess file redirect from the old script to the new one, you must respect a structure
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@vbsk there is quite alot of info that you have mentioned, so correct me if i don't understand the constraints here correctly.
From what i read, if you are able to migrate the content of the forum onto your new site and retain their existing urls, then no redirects are needed.
If you are switching domains, then you can set a sitewide rule via .htaccess file or equivalent to redirect to the new domain.
Essentially, so long as the content is still on your website with no change to URL (or there is a filepath/domain name to forward all redirects to via a few rules), then this should be fairly straightforward.
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