Don’t listen to people telling you this is a bad idea. 301 similar 404 to the correct page and be done with it. Migrations are all too common. Google webmaster

Don’t listen to people telling you this is a bad idea. 301 similar 404 to the correct page and be done with it. Migrations are all too common. Google webmaster guidelines ruled and restriced creativity for long enough, so damn Google. If getting completely deindexed in Google would floor your business you got it all wrong anyway. Focusing on Google too much will get you exactly in a position where you don’t want to be. It’s their job to be able to index correctly all sorts of server configuration and assign link value correctly so their algorithms get it right. You are doing it well. Let’s just stop Google pleasing and focus on the user and good marketing