Migrations

SEO site migrations that keep your rankings

SEO migration services for replatforms and redesigns, so you keep the rankings and revenue you already earned.

Migrations

Where migrations go wrong

Missing redirects

Old URLs that lead nowhere lose their rankings and links.

Lost content

Pages cut in a redesign take their search traffic with them.

Broken markup

Titles, schema and canonicals reset to defaults.

Blocked crawling

A staging robots rule left on at launch.

No baseline

Without before numbers, nobody can prove what changed.

Slower templates

New themes that load slower and rank worse.

Process

How we run a migration

  1. Before

    Baseline

    Every URL, ranking and revenue figure recorded before anything moves.

  2. Build

    Redirect map

    Each old URL matched to its best new home, tested in staging.

  3. Launch

    Checks

    Redirects, indexing, markup and speed verified on launch day.

  4. After

    Watch

    Daily then weekly comparison against the baseline until it settles.

Questions we get asked

Will we lose rankings during a migration?

Some short-term movement is common while Google re-crawls the site. A careful redirect plan and pre-launch checks keep that dip small, and the baseline shows whether you have recovered. We do not promise zero change, because no one can.

When should we involve you?

As early as possible, ideally while the new site is still being planned. Changes to URL structure and templates are far cheaper to make before build than after launch.

Do you work with our developers?

Yes. We supply the redirect map, the checklist and the test results. Your developers or platform partner implement them, and we verify the work on staging and again at launch.

Which platforms do you handle?

We have worked on Shopify, WooCommerce, WordPress, BigCommerce and Magento sites. The method is the same on each: baseline, map, test, launch, measure.

Want to know where you stand?

A senior strategist will look at your rankings, links and AI visibility and tell you the three changes that would move the most.

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