Migrating Customers Off Domain, DO NOT Want to Pass Ranking Signals
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Hey everyone! Thanks in advance for any help on this.
I work for a SaaS company that has all of our customer apps and assets on our company domain. This has resulted in a lot of backlinks pointing to our domain, and a lot of pages indexed as well. I'm working with product to migrate all customers onto a separate domain, but a concern is that we need to still move the customer content to the new domains somehow without passing any of this backlink info.
Am I correct in my assumption that if we 301 all of the apps and assets, all of that backlink info stays the same?
What would be the best way to do this? Could we 302 everything and then wait like, 30 days and delete the 302? Would that still fix the problem, or does all of that backlink data "stick" after the 302 is deleted?
Any additional thoughts would be extremely helpful!!
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