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I’ve migrated a few websites

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I’ve migrated a few websites
~120 (probably more)

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Sites by CMS

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Sites by CMS
70% of these I’ve worked in the same
company as the developers

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This is important because?

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I get chance to refine the
process, what works, what
doesn’t

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Because I’m also in an envious
position

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SEO’ing these CMS is not hard

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+working in the same room as the
development team has many
advantages

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Learn from me, learn from
others - the successful & the
less so...

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This is stressful stuff

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When this is
where you stand,
the drop looks
big doesn’t it?

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Migrating a website is the
most risky thing you can do

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I’m going to give you some
of my essential tech SEO
learnings from my exp

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Ready?

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1)Migrations do not have to
= a drop in traffic/rankings

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“Expect an at-least 15% drop in
organic traffic”

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But why??

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This is expectation
management from someone
who gets it wrong often

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When ranking drops are
expected

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1)When content is cut out

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2)When the focus is changed

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3)When you lose an argument in design

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An Example

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“We can make large site structure changes, we’ll invest more in
marketing/content/link building post-launch to make up for it…”

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It is OKAY to not rank:
●When everyone is aware
●When it’s not important
●When it’s a phase 2 or 3 addition

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To control this you need to SEE
Set Expectations Early

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To control this you need to SEE
Set Expectations Early

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To control this you need to SEE
Set Expectations Early

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If objective #1 is cut the site
content by 90%
objective #2 won’t be retain
all existing traffic*

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But you need to get organised first
(more on this later)

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Recommendation:
1)Get organised - understand the project
2)Benchmark where you are now as best as possible
3)Any decision which may detriment post-launch
performance, needs to be flagged as early as possible
4)Set Expectations Early (SEE)
Migrations do not have to = a drop in traffic/rankings

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2) The most meticulously
planned migrations are
easy to sabotage

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Migrations can be condensed
into a list of simple-tasks

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❏301 redirects tested
❏Noindex Robots directives removed
❏Fetch & render completed successfully
❏Canonicalisation is correct
❏Site is free from crawl errors on launch

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❏301 redirects tested
❏Noindex Robots directives removed
❏Fetch & render completed successfully
❏Canonicalisation is correct
❏Site is free from crawl errors on launch

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❏301 redirects tested
❏Noindex Robots directives removed
❏Fetch & render completed successfully
❏Canonicalisation is correct
❏Site is free from crawl errors on launch

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❏301 redirects tested
❏Noindex Robots directives removed
❏Fetch & render completed successfully
❏Canonicalisation is correct
❏Site is free from crawl errors on launch

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❏301 redirects tested
❏Noindex Robots directives removed
❏Fetch & render completed successfully
❏Canonicalisation is correct
❏Site is free from crawl errors on launch

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❏301 redirects tested
❏Noindex Robots directives removed
❏Fetch & render completed successfully
❏Canonicalisation is correct
❏Site is free from crawl errors on launch

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[Tech-SEO Launch Checklist]
V V V More below V V V

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Miss any one of these and...

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Your site is deindexed

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New spider traps are created

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You canonicalise back to
development site

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301 redirects don’t work or
worse...

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But check-points NEED to be
frequent

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A little rudder far from the rocks

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(Team working
overtime)

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(re-aligning
expectations)

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(last minute scramble
to minimise losses)

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(rankings tank
post-launch)

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Recommendation:
1)Plan your migration list - pre & post launch
2)The person who signs off the checks should not be
the person who does the work
3)Little-and-often meetings to ensure good comms
4)Ensure launch timeline includes ample time to run
checks - don’t sacrifice this for anything
The most meticulously planned migrations are easy to sabotage

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3) A new platform + high
technical standards won't
guarantee rankings

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You’ve launched a new site

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And nailed everything

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat

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But did you fix the original
problem?

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat
Great, you now have tight standards, but
have you added any significant value?

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat
Except Google rewrites these more than
ever (and aren’t a direct ranking factor)

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat
Schema = ranking improvements far-less
than you’d expect

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat
Unless this was a significant problem
before, this is just good housekeeping

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat

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❏All images now have alt text & optimised titles
❏Meta descriptions are written perfectly
❏Correct schema on every page
❏No crawl errors
❏No excess bloat
Again - Unless this was a significant
problem before, this is just good
housekeeping

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BONUS POINT
A “Good looking” website !=
ranking better

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Recommendation:
1)Don’t assume tech SEO hygiene = ranking
improvements
2)Understand what you need to fix which Tech SEO can’t
help
3)A lot of what you read about as “best practice” doesn’t
help every site in all circumstances
A new platform + high technical standards won't guarantee rankings

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4) None of the major
platforms are so bad you
"can't SEO them"

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BOLD STATEMENT ALERT
A successful website can be built
on any modern, functional CMS

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SEO
It’s very easy to point fingers when
things go bad

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Assuming it can perform the
basic tasks it needs to, it
can be “SEO’d”

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1)Don’t confuse disliking a CMS with it not being able to
rank
2)Time & a good developer can accomplish a lot
3)If you don’t have these two things, it’ll be more than
just “the SEO” which suffers
Recommendation:
None of the major platforms are so bad you "can't SEO them"

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5) Sometimes weird sh!t
happens

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I put this in the middle to not linger too much on this

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Even if you think you’ve nailed
it, sometimes it isn’t enough

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Lack of skill?

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Unlucky?

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Google Trying to trip us up?

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Or maybe it’s because the whole
system is complex & opaque?

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Maybe it’s all of them

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Migration. From. Hell.

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Migration. From. Hell.
- Fresh look
- 75+ of new, unique
content
- TIGHT SEO standards
- 301’s redirects MOST
comprehensive
- Log files pre-post launch
OKAY

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Migration. From. Hell.

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Migration. From. Hell.
These continued drops
suggest something
more than just
migration at work

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But don’t panic, the vast
majority of migration-relation
issues can be solved.

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1)If you cannot find the answers related to on-site
factors, try to correlate drops with off-site
events/factors
2)Find someone to bounce ideas off
3)Don’t get complacent
4)Create a fall-back plan
Recommendation:
Sometimes weird sh!t happens

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6) Most launches/
migrations fail because
they are too complex

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More variables =
more chance to screw up

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A bad idea:
Changing CMS, protocol & domain in one
go

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An okay idea:
Changing CMS & domain in one go

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A better idea:
Changing CMS first & waiting

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It’s a choice between
A)Struggling to ID cause of drops (which
costs weeks/months

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It’s a choice between
A)Struggling to ID cause of drops (which
costs weeks/months
and
B) Waiting weeks between events

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1)Only make one large change at once
2)Clearly spell-out risks of each major variable
3)Increase expectation on post-launch time needed for
the more variables you introduce
Recommendation:
Most launches/ migrations fail because they are too complex

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7) Investing in buy-in
upfront saves massively on
fixing screw-ups later on

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“In order to carry a positive action we
must develop here a positive vision.”
-Dalai Lama

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Make friends with developers!

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Dogmatism is the biggest
enemy of SEO

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SEOs aren’t popular on
projects...

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Let go of the stuff
you know is BS

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But also understand you
HAVE to compromise
sometimes...

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But stick with the stuff that matters

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1)People perform better when they understand why
they’re doing what they’re doing
2)Confront any objections early-on
3)Don’t assume everyone’s goals are the same as your
own
4)Find a shared-goal, work towards it
5)Don’t be dogmatic
Recommendation:
Investing in buy-in upfront saves massively on fixing screw-ups later
on

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8) Assumptions lead to the
biggest mistakes

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“I thought ____ would have
checked the redirects before
launch”

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“It was built in WordPress,
that shouldn’t have been a
problem”

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“Why would they have added
a second canonical tag?”

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Managing this can be tough -
we have to assume things

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<a href="https://strategiq.co/what-we-do/web-development/">

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<title>Web Design + UX | StrategiQ</title>
<title>Web Design + UX |
StrategiQ</title>

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<link rel="canonical" href="https://strategiq.co/what-we-do/web-design-and-ux/" />
<title>Web Design + UX |
StrategiQ</title>

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Everything GoogleBot
sees...

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It’s yours, here’s your
sheriff’s badge -own it!

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Trust that everyone has the best
intentions but monitor like you
expect the biggest screw-ups

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These are all accidents - but the first
caused 2 week’s disruption

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1)Check everything you can
2)Anything which GoogleBot sees is your responsibility
3)Do not short-cut pre/post launch checks <- these take
time because they are important!
4)Do not assume every website will be built the same
way/correctly
Recommendation:
Assumptions lead to the biggest mistakes

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9) SEOs build bad
websites, but so do
designers & developers

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In the vast majority of cases
one person/skillset will make a
bad website

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Those who have suffered a poor
migration over-rely on SEO to
make a successful launch

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1.Create an “SEO-friendly” template
2.Plan out the IA for the design team
3.Tell the content writers what to write

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As long as “content that ranks well” is not
the same as content that sells well, you
need more people around the table

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If this works, it’s either
because you’re lucky or you’re
paying a lot of money for a
great marketer

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Collaboration is what’s
needed here.

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❏Iterate the sitemap based on keyword
research findings
❏Recommend IA changes to push key
areas
❏Outline content quantities based on
search-intent & competitive landscape

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Recommendation:
1)Develop a healthy respect for all the key project
team
2)Agree involvement/ milestones & when SEO is
needed
3)Know when something is or isn’t yours to “own” -
round pegs fit better in round holes

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10) The biggest variable in
the process is organisation
size, not CMS

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More stakeholders =
more opinions

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Recommendations get
watered-down

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Goals are compromised.

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Not all tech SEO problems are
technical

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Recommendation:
1)Sometimes a battle is better fought with the
CMO rather than the CMS
2)Take as much time framing recommendations
as you do formulating them.

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To finish

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If you really struggle to know
where to start, invest in...

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Set Expectations Early
Too late!

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Benchmarking
(because some keywords drive traffic
when you don’t expect it)
https://moz.com/beginners-guide-to-seo/measuring-and-tracking-success

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Comprehensive 301 mapping
(as many as you can*)
*https://strategiq.co/does-the-number-of-htaccess-rules-impact-performance-and-scalability/

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And finally...

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Thank you.

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Thank you.