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What are the risks involved? Lose Traffic and Rank you will found much information out there about that. In my own experience, you will have a drop in traffic that you will recover in time-frame 3-6 months. No matter how well you made the migration What are the risks involved? In your case, I would be building links to your site even before running the migration also creating social signals in order to avoid the Google sand box

Thank you for the quick response. John

Thanks for the advice

Knowing that with a large body of documentation like this, the chances of being able to rewrite it all to combine into a single page are pretty slim (and knowing that might be a very negative user experience) you're really only left with the canonical tag option - assuming the older docs need to be maintained. You're right to be concerned, as Google has been clear that canonical only applies to pages that have substantially identical content. Unfortunately, they do a really poor job of explaining just how much variation would be allowed. Is it okay if the canonical is not an exact duplicate of the content? We allow slight differences, e.g., in the sort order of a table of products. We also recognize that we may crawl the canonical and the duplicate pages at different points in time, so we may occasionally see different versions of your content. All of that is okay with us. ~ https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html My impression is that they would honour canonical in your use case. Really, the only way to know is to select a couple of products' documentation pages and conduct a test. Canonicalise all old version to the current version and request re-indexing for each page. Then monitor the results (The new index monitoring tools in the new GSC are useful for this). You'll want to choose at least one test case that involves featured snippets - it would be incredibly useful to know if the FS transfers across to the new canonical page! Do note that you'll need an ongoing process for managing the canonicals s each new iteration of documentation is added - all related pages will need to have their canonicals updated to point to the newest each time new docs are published. Interesting conundrum. Please let us know the results if you decide to try a test! Is that useful? Paul

Thanks!  Can you tell me how long it generally takes for the Site Crawl to run?  Mine has been reporting it is "In progress"  for the past 8hrs??

hey!  Can you send an email to help@moz.com with this request? thanks!

Yep, this one I fixed just now as you send it. I think the issue with wrong redirects is mostly me not spotting them all rather than a problem with the ones I already set not redirecting correctly. I expect there to be thousand + wrong pages, but when I use site:domain.tld and a word in wrong language, for instance "evg" (french word for bachelor party) Google spots only up to 300 (suspiciously the same maximum amount for all sites).

Hi there, There is a lot more to this question which probably goes outside of Q&A, but here are a few points on the links that you've shared: The blog posts don't appear to be written by real authors, they appear to be blogs that are made just to link to Results Plan, so while they may pass some link equity, I'm not sure that they are going to be seen by Google as high quality The anchor text used on all links is clearly keyword driven. This in itself isn't necessarily a big problem (the whole link profile would need looking at to assess that) but again, it implies that the blogs are built just for link building purposes The blogs don't appear to be getting much engagement such as social shares and comments which indicates that they may not get a lot of traffic, so you're also unlikely to get real traffic clicking through to the website Overall, as I said, more work would be needed to make a full assessment, but looking at these sample links, I'm not sure I'd be recommending building lots of links like this. Hope that helps. Paddy

Thank you, I had done a research but I hadn't found this subject. Thank you

There's gold in your answer Roman, thanks for taking the time!

Placing a canonical tag on a webpage that points to a different URL is a suggestion to Google that the page is the same or extremely similar to the page at the specified URL.  It is a suggestion that Google might or might not honor. The more similar the pages the more likely Google is to honor the canonical instructions.  If the pages are not substantially similar, Google will likely ignore the canonical. Your example pages are very different so Google is likely ignoring the canonical instructions. When Google and other search engines first decided to use canonical tags they were not very picky with how people used them.  More recently Google has become more picky and is ignoring lots of canonicals and even ignoring canonicals that they use to honor.

The UK website has been assigned to target the United Kingdom in Search Console and the US website has been assigned to target the United States. We also do not have access to robots.txt file, unfortunately. So you have claimed www.domain.com and targeted it to the UK. And you have claimed us.domain.com and targeted it to the US in Search Console? And for the two URLs below are these tags all on each page exactly as I have them below? https://www.example.com/products/pac-man-arcade-cabinet is the canonical tag <link rel="alternate" href="https: www.example.com="" products="" pac-man-arcade-cabinet" hreflang="en-gb">- UK hreflang tag</link rel="alternate" href="https:> <link rel="alternate" href="https: us.example.com="" products="" pac-man-arcade-cabinet" hreflang="en-us">- US Hreflang tag</link rel="alternate" href="https:> https://us.example.com/products/pac-man-arcade-cabinet is the canonical tag <link rel="alternate" href="https: www.example.com="" products="" pac-man-arcade-cabinet" hreflang="en-gb">- UK hreflang tag</link rel="alternate" href="https:> <link rel="alternate" href="https: us.example.com="" products="" pac-man-arcade-cabinet" hreflang="en-us">- US Hreflang tag</link rel="alternate" href="https:> Where are you searching from? What are you searching? And is there anything different between those two pages other than targeting? Do you redirect users based on IP?

To add to what Roman posted - I would also encourage you to set up Google Search Console to review how this has changed the number of pages indexed. You have a good head start by using the WP plugin but I would take this addition step.