Moving from one domain to another or changing the website\u2019s URL structure is always tricky and need a bunch of sensible works to be done like proper redirections, changing internal links, updating sitemaps etc. to get everything right.<\/p>\n
But, site move gets more complicated when we have to move back to the old site or we can say want to reverse a site move<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Google\u2019s John Mueller<\/strong> in a recent hangout addressed this issue and said, such changes might be tricky from Google\u2019s end also. John has recommended webmasters to perform a redirection back to the old domain. Along with redirection, webmasters also need to move back their external links, internal links, sitemaps, canonicals etc. to the previous version.<\/p>\n One crucial change that webmasters need to perform while reversing a site move is to remove the redirection<\/strong> done previously from the old domain to the new domain. Forgetting to remove this can cause a redirection loop.<\/p>\n John also said, sometimes this change works fairly well and sometimes gets a bit tricky depending on how long the old site has been redirecting to the other site and asked webmasters to have patience for everything to settle down properly.<\/p>\n