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    • Maxaro.nl
      Maxaro.nl last edited by

      A. Do nothing
      B. Redirect to legacy site (current domain)
      C. Create a placeholder with information about the rebranding
      D. Other...

      What do you think is best?

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      • JordanLowry
        JordanLowry last edited by

        I would say make sure to include a 'meta no index' tag and block search engines from crawling it with a robots.txt. Then you can think about creating a placeholder with information about the rebrand. No sense in having it indexed just yet.

        Hope that helps some.

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