Google: Don’t Combine Site Moves With Other Big Changes via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Google’s Search Relations team discusses the potential issues that can arise from site moves in the latest episode of the Search Off The Record podcast.
This topic comes up a lot, but it was examined from a different angle this time.
Google Search Advocate John Mueller, Analyst Gary Illyes, and Senior Technical Writer Lizzi Sassman explore the risks of moving a site to a new top-level domain.
Examining Site Moves From A Different Angle
At roughly ten minutes into the podcast, Mueller complicates the discussion by introducing a hypothetical scenario.
What happens if you combine a domain change with other changes to the URL?
Mueller asks:
“What happens if I do a domain change, and move from a “.ch”, which is a Swiss top level domain, to “.com”? Is that a problem? Like if I combine a domain change with other stuff?”