Housekeeping: Check URL structure sync & add redirects as necessary
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We should ensure that the current URL structure is in sync with your previous blogger URL structure. If not, that's OK, Jekyll has the ability to redirect easily.
Is this done?
I think this is a larger manual check so I wouldn't consider it done. #10 definitely makes it much more likely that this will succeed. I'd suggest doing one of two things:
- Pull your current RSS feed & scrape URLs; Run jekyll locally; ensure that all the url structures in your current RSS can be hit in your new setup. (we can probably write a PS script to do this easily enough.
- Alternatively, you can add a custom 404 response and then after launch, set up some analytics to detect when the page is displayed, which will tell you what the intended URL was. You can then fix these as one-off redirects.
@dennisdoomen I think if you set up a google analytics alert on "Page Not Found" as the title of the page, you'll see any URLs that someone was looking for. If it's legitimately supposed to be that URL, you should be able to redirect within the markdown fontmatter for a post on a case-by-case basis.
So this can likely be closed, as long as you've got something surfaced to tell you when 404s are happening.