{"id":28507,"date":"2026-09-08T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/moving-the-site\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:34:34","slug":"moving-the-site","status":"publish","type":"ar_ykb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/moving-the-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving the site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A site move means changing the address Yandex ranks. Four situations count as one:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new domain name \u2014 <code>example.com<\/code> to <code>sample.com<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>A new top-level domain \u2014 <code>example.com<\/code> to <code>example.ru<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Adding or removing <code>www<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Switching between HTTP and HTTPS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In every case <strong>Yandex treats each address as a different site<\/strong>. Left alone, both can appear in search and compete with each other \u2014 the site&#8217;s own worst competitor.<\/p>\n<h2>The basic procedure<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Add <strong>both<\/strong> addresses to the console and verify ownership of each.<\/li>\n<li>Confirm the site is reachable at the new address.<\/li>\n<li>Set up redirection from old to new.<\/li>\n<li>Submit the move request under Indexing \u2192 Relocate site.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Yandex is explicit about what the fourth step buys: it <strong>speeds up the migration and identifies potential errors<\/strong>. The redirects do the work; the request makes it faster and tells you when something is wrong.<\/p>\n<h2>The automatic case<\/h2>\n<p>Where a site appears both with and without <code>www<\/code>, Yandex may choose the primary address itself, and only that one will appear in results. Convenient when it picks correctly, and the reason a site can &#8220;lose&#8221; its rankings overnight when it does not: nothing dropped, a different address started ranking.<\/p>\n<h2>What this page is for<\/h2>\n<p>It is the decision point. Which of the four situations applies determines which detailed procedure to follow, and they differ \u2014 the domain move requires page-to-page redirects and matching <code>robots.txt<\/code> files, while the <code>www<\/code> change additionally accepts <code>rel=\"canonical\"<\/code> as an alternative to redirecting.<\/p>\n<h2>The expectation to set before starting<\/h2>\n<p>Address changes take about a month to settle, and Yandex guarantees nothing about preserved page count, ranking or traffic. A migration is a risk to be executed carefully, not a configuration change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A site move means changing the address Yandex ranks. Four situations count as one: A new domain name \u2014 example.com to sample.com. A new top-level domain \u2014 example.com to example.ru. Adding or removing www. Switching between HTTP and HTTPS. In every case Yandex treats each address as a different site. Left alone, both can appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":83,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_ykb_kategori":[764],"ar_ykb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28507","ar_ykb","type-ar_ykb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_ykb_kategori-site-indexing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_ykb"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29146,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28507\/revisions\/29146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_kategori?post=28507"},{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_etiket?post=28507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}