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A safe website migration starts with a complete old-URL inventory and an editorial old-to-new mapping. Keep useful URLs where possible, use direct permanent redirects where needed, update internal links and canonicals, publish a clean sitemap and monitor after launch.
Dead Internet Theory: Search crawlers have finite resources, but small-site visibility problems are usually better investigated through discoverability, linking, indexing, and server health than through dramatic assumptions about crawl budget.
Dead Internet Theory: Independent websites with few inbound links can be harder for search systems to discover and evaluate, even when their content is useful, because web connectivity itself is part of the evidence search engines can observe.