Most migration traffic losses start with a missing row: an old URL nobody listed 🫤
A redirect map 🧭 is a plain spreadsheet of old paths and new homes. The guide covers the columns, five places to find old URLs, and the checks to run before launch👇
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Most rebrand plans have one line for redirects. That line hides old domains, hundreds of URLs and a Search Console setting 🥲
Here’s launch week in the order it actually needs to happen👇
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@webflow 's redirects are fine for moving pages inside one site 🤌
Old domains, temporary links and leaving Webflow are where they stop. What the built-in tool can and can’t do🤔:
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DNS doesn’t propagate. It expires 👀
Look up any record on Google, Cloudflare, Quad9 or your authoritative nameserver, then check 53 resolvers in 34 countries to see who has the new answer. Both free ✅
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Google’s advice on 301 redirects: keep them for at least a year.
But backlinks 🔗, bookmarks 🔖, old newsletters and printed QR codes don’t follow Google’s schedule.
Five checks before you remove one ✅:
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Paste a URL and see every redirect hop 🪂, the status code of each one, the final destination and the platform behind each rule.
Free, no sign-up 🎁
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You change a DNS record and it works for you. Your client still sees the old site 🥲
Nothing’s broken: every resolver keeps the old answer until its TTL runs out. What decides the wait, and what you can speed up:
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Set up a redirect, saved it, and the old domain still shows an error? ❌
It’s almost always one of 9 things. Most problems are solved by the first four: DNS records, propagation, leftover records and the wrong DNS provider 👇
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Changing a URL can affect SEO. It doesn’t have to hurt it.
The old address already has rankings, backlinks and bookmarks. Point it at the new page with a 301, update your internal links and sitemap, and give Google time to catch up 🔗
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Your old link still works. It just bounces through four redirects to get there.
That’s a redirect chain: slower pages, wasted crawl budget, and one expired domain away from breaking.
How to spot one and collapse it into a single rule 👀👇:
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