I have an old site that is currently live. Not huge, maybe 10 pages. I understand I need to re-direct the old pages to not lose search engine ranking.
So, once I have the site tested and I am ready to launch what is the exact procedure? I’ll be going to Webflow as the host.
1 - do I need to pull the other site down? Ie, delete the index/home page, remove all pages from server, what is the best practice?
2 - I think I can’t do the re-direct until the new site is live, right? So do I just save the old URL’s and then set up the 301 directs once the new site is live? I don’t think I can do it while the old site is live and new one being completed in webflow (though I do often “publish” to test the changes and flow).
Thanks Webdev, but I’m not sure I follow you. Some of this terminology is now to me too.
WHen you say old domain, you mean the www.xxxxxx.com name, yes? If so, the domain name will actually (hopefully) remain exactly the same (for the home page at least). The name of the individual pages may vary (or be the same).
You then said I could build the redirects before changing the old IP’s. When I envisioned this (in my novice simple mind) I figured I would - make the redirect, then just pull the old “page” off the server.