Answer by Stephen Ostermiller for Thousands of bot hits for retired domain
You shouldn't be redirecting the entire domain if you don't have replacements for all the old pages. It is appropriate for users and bots to see 404 errors for pages on the old domain that have been...
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You are never going to be able to 100% stop bots from trying to access pages from the old domain. You have done the right thing by 301 redirecting the old pages to the new relevant pages as this will...
View ArticleThousands of bot hits for retired domain
In May of last year we retired a domain and redirected it at a new one. This was done to consolidate two sites from a company merger into one site. We shutdown the CMS for site1.com and pointed its DNS...
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