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Domain, Hosting & Deployment Continuity
Domain, DNS, hosting and deployment continuity through a migration: pointing a domain without downtime, keeping email untouched, SSL, caching and CDN changes, and what to verify before and after cutover.
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Answers in English (11)
Does migrating my website affect local SEO and my Google Business Profile?
Your Google Business Profile is separate from your site, so a migration does not change it directly. But it can hurt local SEO through the website link, NAP consistency, local landing page URLs, and local business markup. Update the profile link, keep NAP identical, and 301 local pages.
How do I avoid duplicate content when redesigning a website?
Make sure only one version of each page is indexable. The usual culprits are an indexed staging site, old and new both live, and URL variants (www, https, trailing slash).
How do I do a zero-downtime website migration?
Prepare and test the new site fully, lower your DNS time-to-live ahead of the switch, run the old and new environments in parallel, and cut over only once the new one is verified. The site never goes dark because you never turn the old one off until the new one is proven live.
How do I fix mixed content warnings after an HTTPS migration?
Find every asset still loading over HTTP and switch it to HTTPS: hardcoded URLs in content and the database, theme and template references, and third-party embeds. Mixed content means a secure page is loading insecure resources, so the page is only as secure as its weakest asset.
How do I keep my email working when changing web host?
Email and your website are separate services joined by DNS, so the rule is: when you move your web host, change only the website record and leave the email records alone. Email is routed by MX records, so the danger is overwriting or dropping them, not the host change itself.
How do I keep site verification after migration?
Verification often breaks in a move and cuts your Search Console access. Use DNS verification, which lives on the domain, so it survives any platform change.
How do I migrate an international website without losing SEO?
Keep your country and language structure intact: preserve or redirect every localized URL, keep hreflang reciprocal across the new addresses, and hold any country targeting. The risk is breaking the links between your versions, so each market keeps its own pages and audience.
How do I move from HTTP to HTTPS without losing SEO?
Treat it as a URL change: install the certificate, redirect every HTTP URL to its HTTPS version with a 301, update internal links and references to HTTPS, and confirm in Search Console. Done cleanly, HTTPS protects rankings rather than risking them.
Subdomain or subdirectory for my blog: which is better for SEO?
Google says it handles both, so neither is a guaranteed win. In practice a subdirectory like example.com/blog is simpler to manage and keeps everything under one site, which is why many choose it. What matters most is picking one, staying consistent, and redirecting if you ever switch.
What happens to SEO if I change my WordPress site URL?
Change the address without a strict 301 plan and Google drops the old pages. With a complete redirect map and the right settings, rankings transfer cleanly.
Will changing website hosting affect SEO?
Not on its own, as long as the domain and URLs stay the same. Search engines rank your content and URLs, not the server. What matters is avoiding downtime and not changing addresses.
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Site taşımada organik trafik düşüşü nasıl önlenir?
Taşımadan ÖNCE hazırlanın: tüm URL'leri listeleyin, 301 haritasını yayından önce hazırlayın, meta verileri taşıyın ve test ortamını indeks dışında tutun. Onarmak önlemekten pahalıdır.
WordPress sitesini eklenti olmadan başka bir hosta nasıl taşırım?
Eklenti şart değil: dosyaları ve veritabanını elle taşır, DNS'i kesintisiz çevirirsiniz. Aynı alan adında URL'ler değişmez, bu yüzden asıl risk SEO değil, kesinti süresidir.
WordPress sitesini başka bir domaine nasıl taşırım?
Yolları (path) aynı tutun ve her eski adresi 301 ile yenisine yönlendirin. WordPress'e özgü iki adım: Ayarlar'da site adresini güncellemek ve içerikteki eski domaini search-replace ile değiştirmek.
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Backup do WordPress pelo cPanel ou exportação em HTML?
São coisas diferentes: o backup do cPanel restaura o mesmo site (arquivos e banco), a exportação em HTML leva o conteúdo para outra plataforma. Escolha pelo que vai fazer a seguir.
Como fazer um backup completo do site WordPress?
Salve duas partes: os arquivos (wp-content) e o banco de dados, e guarde a cópia fora do servidor. Um backup que mora no mesmo servidor morre junto com ele.
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