It might not be the best idea to migrate to a new domain name and at the same time also drop your AMP pages. A Google SEO hangout with John Mueller has one case where a site migrated to a new domain back in September and at the same time dropped AMP and has not seen the site's traffic recover yet.
This came up at the 35 minute mark into the hangout where Stijn Berkhaus explained that they did a "website migration three months ago to a new domain." At the same time he said that AMP was enabled on the old domain but not the new one. Now his site no longer ranks well in the top stories carousel in Google Search. He said "my old AMP articles are always ranked in Google Top Stories" but the new site does not.
And yes, we know AMP is no longer required for top stories but at the same time, you still need to have a good page experience score to be in AMP - which his site does he said.
John said that he believes the site should fix itself in a about a month or so. He said it is complex when you do a "domain migration and switching off AMP at the same time," adding "especially with something like Top Stories, that might be a little bit confusing."
He believes the site is on the right track but John goes on to explain the page experience report is showing data, in fact, a lot of good scores in the 90s for core web vitals and the site has field data.
So John thinks it will just take longer because it is a new domain and it will take more time. John added that it can take time for...
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