Hey friends, I have a site on a ccTLD, say mysite.de, that ranks really well in Germany. I serve other languages from subdomains, like for english I use en.mysite.de. Now I acquired the .com domain and want to take my website international. The .com domain will help rank in other countries as well I hope. For this, I also plan a big site update that will change the url structure to support this. Part of this plan is to use folders for each language instead of subdomains, so mysite.com/de/ and mysite.com/en/. Now my question; should I switch domains first, keeping the current site and url structure intact on the new domain and update that after migration has stabilized? Or should I do all the changes at once? I’ve found contradicting takes on this on both 3rd party blogs and Google’s own blog about this, but it seems like doing the domain first and then changing the site structure a few months later seems like the most safe way to go about it. I’ve moved domains for this site once before a couple years ago - without switching structure - and that went well, didn’t lose rankings. Interested to hear your thoughts, thanks for any advice! submitted by /u/AlabamaMan74 [link] [comments]
Moving domain & site structure: same time or one at a time?
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