SEO migration that keeps your rankings.

New website, different CMS, another domain name or structure? With a well-thought-out migration plan your site moves β€” and your rankings stay put.

FREE MIGRATION CHECK
Every URL neatly redirected
301 REDIRECTS
GOOGLE PARTNER
0 BROKEN LINKS
RANKINGS RETAINED
Phase 01 β€” The risk

A migration can
cost rankings

Leave the move to chance and Google loses the trail. Your rankings slip away.

Dominic Pietersz
"A migration is the most nerve-racking moment in SEO. Do it with a plan β€” a complete redirect map and a tight go-live β€” and everything moves with you β€” your authority, your rankings and your traffic."
Dominic Pietersz Your dedicated point of contact

In short

What is an SEO migration?

The short answer

SEO migration

An SEO migration is moving a website to a new design, a different CMS, a different domain name or URL structure while keeping your existing visibility.

Because Google has to rediscover and reconnect every URL, a migration left to chance can cost rankings, traffic and authority, temporarily or for good.

In 2026 this counts double β€” the same signals that make you rank in Google determine whether AI engines such as ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews keep recognising your new site as a trustworthy source.

Sound familiar?

Two moments when a migration comes into play.

You are moving to a new website or CMS

A redesign or a new platform, for example a move to Webflow or Shopify. Your content changes shape β€” and your rankings stay intact.

  • We keep your strong pages and structure
  • Every old URL neatly redirected to the new one

You are changing domain or structure

A new domain name, a brand name that changes, or merging and reordering URLs. The biggest leap β€” and exactly where a tight plan counts.

  • Full 301 map from old to new domain
  • Your authority moves with you to the new address

What moves with you

The eight parts of a safe migration.

Hover over a card β€” from the component to what we do about it.

hover or tap for our approach

Why it goes wrong

Migrations rarely go wrong through bad luck.

It is almost always a missed plan β€” one step skipped and Google loses the trail. A checklist prevents exactly that.

  • URLs change without a 301 redirect, so Google loses the trail
  • Internal links and sitemaps keep pointing to old pages that no longer exist
  • The site goes live with a forgotten noindex or missing schema
100%
Domain change

Rankings retained

Complete redirect map β€” the rankings held after the switch.

3 wks
Replatform

Traffic fully back

Moved to a new CMS, indexing restored within a few weeks.

+18%
Restructure

Stronger after consolidation

Merged URLs performed better than they did separately.

Phase 01 β€” The risk

A migration can cost rankings

Leave the move to chance and Google loses the trail. Your rankings slip away.

Migration roadmap

How we move your site β€” step by step.

Click through the four phases. For each step you see what happens, how big the risk is and what we do to keep your rankings.

Inventory

Risk: low
    What we do

    baseline recorded
    Rankings retained β€” illustrative

    Illustrative roadmap β€” your migration gets a tailor-made plan, matched to your site.

    Run the numbers

    What does a post-migration dip cost?

    Enter your own figures and see what better visibility delivers. Every assumption is listed below, with its source.

    Frequently asked questions

    About SEO migration

    • With a plan, that risk is small. As long as every old URL points via a 301 redirect to the correct new page, the authority you have built moves with it. A brief, temporary fluctuation can occur and your rankings usually return quickly.

    • You often see within a few weeks that Google has processed the new URLs. With a clean redirect map and a controlled go-live, rankings usually hold steady and indexing recovers quickly.

    • The best moment is before the move β€” you make the plan and the redirect map in advance. Bring us in as soon as you are considering a redesign, platform switch, domain change or restructure, so everything moves across correctly in one go.

    A free chat with Dominic?

    Quick and direct - you get the specialist on the line straight away.

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    Ready to move?

    Start with a free migration check.

    Moving to a new site, CMS, domain or structure soon? We check in advance where the risks are and how you keep your rankings. No obligation, with a concrete plan.

    Reply within 1 working day No obligation

    Services around an SEO migration

    What we most often take on alongside it.

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