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We want to fold tailscale.dev back into the main tailscale.com website, and shut down the old service. Cool URIs Don’t Change, so this patch sets up permanent redirects to equivalent content.

It’s also because a 301 Permanent Redirect tells Googlebot that we’ve moved the page and it can transfer its SEO ranking to the new one: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/301-redirects

Pages that need redirecting: http://go/redirect-tailscale.dev

Updates https://github.com/tailscale/corp/issues/29153

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We want to fold tailscale.dev back into the main tailscale.com
website, and shut down the old service. Cool URIs Don’t Change[^1], so
this patch sets up permanent redirects to equivalent content.

It’s also because a 301 Permanent Redirect tells Googlebot that we’ve
moved the page and it can transfer its SEO ranking to the new one:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/301-redirects

Pages that need redirecting: http://go/redirect-tailscale.dev

Updates tailscale/corp#29153

[^1]: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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all the pages you have here LGTM. I guess it's fine to redirect the /blog index page before we redirect the individual posts.

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sfllaw commented Jun 3, 2025

Thanks @willnorris. I’m still waiting for @emilym-tailscale to report back on the SEO implications of this change. I could definitely split this change up so that the Sanity pages get redirected later.

chrisbartlett-ts added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 29, 2025
## What has changed?

I have been asked to add the following redirects from the PR:

#348

From the dev site to tailscale marketing site.

## How to test?

You can download the branch and test locally using the redirect file and
changing tailscale.dev to localhost:3000.

You can use the preview link as well e.g


https://tailscale-dev-git-chris-web-936redirects-additional-tailscale.vercel.app/

and append a redirect link e.g.

https://tailscale-dev-git-chris-web-936redirects-additional-tailscale.vercel.app/solutions/connect-to-your-nas
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