Re: Best way to update a site while minimizing downtime
One of the reasons I've gone to using dynamic scripting for sites is that it's so much easier to implement a change of this sort, since all the data is in the database, all the html structure is in the template, and you simply drop in the new skin and turn it on. No worries about broken links, and no url changes, so no canonical headaches or 404 worries or other stuff of that sort. Though internal html structure can change, and there may be some shifting in SERPS due to that, the hit is very minimal and very short lived.
I know you're not going to do that this round, but you may consider it for next time. And next time seems to come in 3-5 year integrals. Do you really want to go through this page by page headache next time?
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