The lazy person’s guide to confirming that a move to a static site worked. Overview: Download all relevant URLs from Search Console Convert download to a URL list Check for http to https redirects Check for valid final URLs Download all relevant URLs I’m picking one approximate source of truth - the URLs that received impressions in Google Search. This list doesn’t need to be comprehensive, just something more than I’d manually pick. In general, any reasonable sample will include URLs from a variety of different templates / sections of the site – and usually problems are not unique to URLs, but rather templates / sections. You can also use a Google Analytics export, for example. I use Search Console.

Every now and then I hear from someone who accidentally got a bunch of email addresses indexed as parameters to some script on their site. There’s sometimes an easy solution to that, which will (temporarily!) take care of it fairly quickly: If there’s a common part of the path that identifies these URLs, use a “directory” URL removal request in Search Console (verify ownership first). For example, you can submit “email.php” to have all URLs that start with / use that script temporarily removed.