Move a domain to another: change the canonical tag of old site?

[Owin]

Hi all,

Recently we plan to move our domain to another.
For example: The old domain is abc.com, and the new domain is def.com. The content on both sites are exactly same. On the new site, we have replaced the rel=canonical tag from https:// www.abc.com/example.html to https:// www.def.com/example.html. Is there necessary to repeat the operation on the old site after the new site is online?

By the way, is there any suggestion for domain migration?

Thanks!

[edited by: goodroi at 10:47 am (utc) on Aug 28, 2019]
[edit reason] delinked example urls [/edit]

[skaterpunk]

Someone more informed may correct me, but you should just have to do a domain redirect from the old site to the new site, which can be done in cpanel.

Domain migration? Depends. I use WP and the web host has always been willing to handle the migration.

[not2easy]

Be very careful if you decide to take the cpanel shortcut for redirect because if you are not careful it uses the Apache default "302" (Temporary) rather than a permanent 301 rewrite.

[aristotle]

On the new site, we have replaced the rel=canonical tag from https:// www.abc.com/example.html to https:// www.def.com/example.html.

Shouldn't it be on the old site instead of the new site? This seems more logical to me, because otherwise someone could copy your site and claim that their site is the canonical

[lucy24]

we plan to move our domain to another

Do you mean that the former example.old/pagename will now be found at example.new/pagename? If the redirects are happening correctly, nobody will ever see the pages at example.old, so it makes no difference what tags you have.

[tangor]

A standard redirect does not care what canoncial might be there. It is just redirecting urls from one place to another.