Site migrations

Short rooms that train one skill at a time: read a quick lesson, then answer questions to earn CTF points. Log in or join free to play.

• Easy25 min · 8 questions Redirect Mapping for Migrations Build a one-to-one redirect map so every old URL lands somewhere useful. Members only
• Medium30 min · 7 questions Redirect Chains and Loops Find, read and flatten redirect chains before they waste crawl and break pages. Members only
• Medium30 min · 7 questions Domain and HTTPS Moves Move to HTTPS or to a new domain with the right redirects and Search Console steps. Members only
• Medium30 min · 8 questions Staging Leaks and Noindex Left On Keep test sites out of the index and make sure the live site is not blocked at launch. Members only
• Hard40 min · 7 questions Platform Migration Launch Checks Benchmark, launch and monitor a CMS or platform change without losing traffic. Members only

Full scenarios: you get a brief and your own practice website, optimise whole pages and watch them rank in a practice search results page. A lab passes only when your fix is really in place. Log in or join free to start one.

• Intermediate25 min · 15 coins Redirects that send visitors round in circles Three redesigns left an accounting firm with redirect chains, a loop and a redirect into a dead page. Clean up the map without breaking the one temporary redirect that is meant to be there. Members only
• Advanced35 min · 20 coins Launch day: the old addresses go nowhere A dental clinic moved from an old PHP site to a new CMS with clean addresses. Build the redirect map and make the new site describe itself, not the old one. Members only
• Beginner15 min · 10 coins Three addresses for every page A gym's crawl report shows the same pages at slash, no-slash and capitalised addresses. Settle on one address per page without touching what is already right. Members only
• Advanced30 min · 20 coins A redesign that still points at the test server A school's new website went live by copying the staging site. A week later almost nothing is indexed. Find every place where the live site still points at the test server. Members only
• Intermediate25 min · 15 coins New pages with messy addresses A plumbing company's new pages went live with CMS-generated addresses. Move them to the agreed clean addresses without losing anything, and know which old address to leave alone. Members only
• Advanced60 min · 40 coins Capstone: the relaunch that went live with staging settings A furniture shop moved to new, clean addresses and launched with its staging robots.txt, noindex tags and canonicals. Rescue the launch: crawling, indexing, the redirect map, internal links and the sitemap. Members only