How can I safely migrate blog categories without affecting SEO?

[SWOP]

Hi all,

As the blog on our website has grown to over 60 articles, I want to create blog categories.

An app is unfortunately not an option, but I read it should be possible, when I create separate blogs and then link to reach blog in the store menu. Now I have a couple of questions that I couldn't find a definitive answer to.

• Is there any risk for my SEO/rankings, as long as I redirect all articles to the new blog?
• Do you recommend to resubmit my sitemap to google?
• Wat is the most efficient way to create redirects?
• Does Shopify automatically create a 301 redirect?
• Is is also a viable solution to use labels?
• Are there any other risks or better ways to do this that I'm not thinking about?

Thanks so much!

Lars 

[ThePixelEdge]

Hello  @SWOP

Your requirement entails custom development, which necessitates paid services. Please inform us if you are open to discussing this further.

[SWOP · Accepted solution]

https://community.shopify.com/c/technical-q-a/how-to-categorize-blog/td-p/590292

This article disagrees. It should be straight forward to create the categories and create redirects.

What I am concerned with is SEO impact.

Could you be specific why you say it requires custom development?