website question: I want to move my tempobook.com site from wordpress to a static single page site, since I no longer update that blog. Planning to put old posts there into a single PDF. Same domain, but URLs other than root will no longer work. What's the solution?
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301 redirect seems wrong since I am not actually changing the domain, just simplifying what's there... so URLs which vanish will 404, so maybe just put the PDF itself on a nice 404 page? That'll probably hurt SEO but it's not a high-SEO site anyway
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How would I set that up? I've never done it. I thought it was for moving domain names.
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There are ways to export all the pages to a static site
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Thought of that, but I don't actually want that I think, since I don't plan to update the blog part at all, having a blog-like navigation structure will look weird. I'd rather just have a main page with a book buying link, and a second page hosting a PDF or epub of old content
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It would be nice to preserve links. I like the option to export static pages. Even if you just add a message to the top of each of those pages indicating that the site has changed along with a link. You can still have your single page site and the old archived structure.
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Wildcard 301 for sure if you want it to get traffic. A single HTML page would be preferable to the PDF and you could have some analytics.
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Yeah you could render the same page for every url. You’d think search engines wouldn’t ding you as much for duplicate content in 404? Sounds like you aren’t worried about that though.






