Alright I'll try to make this as concise as possible.
My dad has an online business he has been running for 10 years or so, selling around 60 products in the sports/outdoor recreation market. He had this guy build a basic website a decade ago and he has updated it for my dad since. The website was built on the adobe muse platform and has not aged well at all, links broken here and there, completely void of worthwhile seo practices, shows up in basically a desktop format on mobile... it was a shambles. The guy retired 6 months ago and dad was left with a site that wouldn't even load on any IOS device.
At that point, knowing he wasn't going to do anything about it I decided to rebuild it myself. I used Shopify, bought the .com domain as the original site is .com.au and learnt as I went, creating a 301 redirect to the new .com page as I finished them.
It's gone well so far, however I didn't realise you couldn't 301 forward .pdf URLs. This wouldn't be that big of an issue but there is a Wikipedia page linking to a .pdf hosted on his original site that now 404's. The wiki bot is now linking to the pdf on the wayback machine but there is still a broken link to the original on there as well.
Basically what would be the best way of reclaiming this backlink? Shopify uses a CDN for files, I have made a page with the pdf in jpeg form on the new site.
Should I be trying to update the wiki article? or creating a workaround with the url redirect? or something else?
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