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Site moves: Are they getting any easier?

With the right resources, site moves or domain changes don’t have to be as hard as we once remember. In this episode of Search Off the Record, join Lizzi, Gary, and John for a chat about site moves. Learn about the different types of site moves, common issues, and how to move your site without harming search ranking results. Find out how site moves affect users and Search, how there could be a drop in traffic, and more.

Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr056-transcript 

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

Transcript for Site moves: Are they getting any easier?

Search Off the Record takes you behind the scenes of Google Search and its inner workings! In each episode, the folks from the Search Relations team will give you background info on the decision-making behind launches, feature prioritization in Search Console, and the projects Google Search teams are working on. They will share fun stories

Updating Search Console users and permissions management

This post discusses an update to Search Console’s user and permissions to incorporate functionality related to ownership and user management.

Bulk data export: a new and powerful way to access your Search Console data

In this post, we discuss bulk data export, a new Search Console feature that allows you to export data to Google BigQuery on an ongoing basis. You can configure an export in Search Console to get a daily data dump into your BigQuery project.

Don’t use 403s or 404s for rate limiting

Over the last few months we noticed an uptick in website owners and some content delivery networks (CDNs) attempting to use 404 and other 4xx client errors (but not 429) to attempt to reduce Googlebot’s crawl rate.