After a move, every article in a series can still open individually while the series itself no longer works. Its order, entry point or next-part links may have been lost.
Fictional example: three guides move from /blog/ to /insights/. Every old URL redirects correctly, but “Continue to part 3” in the second guide points to an intermediate address that has since been deleted.
Make a series inventory before the move
For each instalment, record its old and new URL, position and links to the previous and next articles. Include the shared overview page if one exists.
Then follow the reading route: open the entry point, read the first part, continue to the next and return to the overview. A URL-status report alone cannot detect missing order or confusing link labels.
If two short parts become one guide, existing references need an appropriate new destination. A section anchor can help when the relevant section genuinely exists there.
Do not retain outdated statements such as “Part 2 follows next week” when the series is already complete. Keep the prerequisites between instalments understandable.
Include technical mappings and editorial references in the same handover. This makes it possible to distinguish a redirect fault from content that was intentionally retired.
Related check: Prioritise a redirect mapping.
A defined series-navigation change can be implemented in the existing frontend through scoped Frontend optimisation.