
Website Migration Checklist: How to Migrate Without Losing SEO
A step-by-step website migration checklist: crawl, redirect map, metadata, schema and post-launch monitoring, so you change platforms without losing traffic.
Technical SEO, structured data, content strategy and answer-engine optimisation, so buyers find you on Google and AI assistants recommend you when they ask.
What you get
Every project is scoped to your goals, but these are the pieces you can count on.
Crawlability, indexation, canonicals, redirects, sitemaps and Core Web Vitals, fixed in the build rather than handed over as a PDF.
Organization, Service, Article, FAQ and Breadcrumb schema linked into one entity graph, so search and AI engines know who you are.
Pages written and structured so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can quote them, plus an llms.txt and an open robots policy.
A map of the questions your buyers ask, grouped into hub pages and articles, prioritised by intent rather than raw volume.
Briefs, outlines and edited articles with real expertise in them, not filler written to hit a word count.
Search Console, GA4 and conversion events set up so you can see which pages bring in pipeline, not just traffic.
Buyers now research in two places. They still search Google, and they increasingly ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini for a shortlist. The good news is that the work overlaps heavily: a site that is easy to crawl, clearly structured and full of specific, expert answers does well in both.
What differs is the emphasis. Search engines reward relevance and authority. AI assistants also need to understand who you are, trust that your content is accurate, and be able to quote a passage that answers the question directly. That shifts more weight onto structured data, clear entity signals and the way each page is written.
Technical foundation. We fix what stops pages from being crawled, indexed or understood: duplicate URLs, missing canonicals, redirect chains, orphaned pages, slow templates, thin metadata. Where we build the site, this is handled from day one. Where we did not, we fix it directly in your CMS or give your developers exact changes.
Entity and schema. Your Organization, services, people, articles and FAQs are described in linked structured data, with sameAs links to the profiles that prove you are a real business. This is the layer AI assistants rely on to connect your brand name to what you actually do.
Answer-ready pages. Each important page opens with a clear, quotable answer to the question it targets, then backs it up. Headings match the questions buyers ask. FAQs answer real objections rather than padding.
AI crawler access. Many sites accidentally block the crawlers that power AI search. We set a deliberate robots policy, publish an llms.txt summary of the site, and make sure the two do not contradict each other.
Content strategy. We map the questions your buyers ask at each stage, group them into topic hubs, and prioritise by commercial intent. Then we produce briefs or full articles with input from the people who know your product.
Rankings alone are a vanity metric. We set up Search Console, GA4 and conversion events so every report connects search visibility to the thing you care about: demo requests, signups or qualified enquiries. For AEO, we track which prompts mention you and which pages get cited.
Moving platforms? Our migration process protects the rankings you already have. Getting traffic but not enough enquiries? CRO and experimentation turns more of it into pipeline.
Who it's for
How it works
From first call to launch, you always know what happens next.
20 minutes to talk goals, scope and timelines. No pitch deck, no pressure.
Pick a time that suits you
Within 48 hours: sitemap, timeline and a fixed quote. You know exactly what you get.
Your website plan
Weekly check-ins, a live staging link, and a site your team owns from day one.
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SEO gets your pages ranking in search results. AEO, answer-engine optimisation, gets your content quoted inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. The foundations overlap heavily, but AEO puts extra weight on clear entity data, direct answers near the top of a page and letting AI crawlers read the site at all.
For most B2B and SaaS companies, no. If assistants cannot read your site, they cannot recommend you when a buyer asks for options. If training is the concern, you can block training-only crawlers while leaving retrieval crawlers open. We will help you choose a policy that matches your goals.
Technical fixes can show up within weeks once pages are recrawled. New content usually takes three to six months to rank competitively, depending on your domain's authority and the competition. We set expectations per keyword cluster rather than promising a blanket timeline.
Either works. We can produce briefs your team writes from, edit drafts from your subject-matter experts, or write articles ourselves after interviewing your team. Content with real first-hand experience in it performs better, so we always involve the people who know the product.
The technical foundation is included. Metadata, schema, sitemaps, redirects, semantic headings and Core Web Vitals come with every build. Ongoing content strategy, article production and AEO work are scoped separately.
Yes. We start with an audit of crawlability, indexation, schema and content gaps, then either fix issues directly in your CMS or hand your developers a prioritised list with exact changes.
Related services
Move to Webflow, Framer or Astro with every URL, redirect and ranking accounted for.
Research, heatmaps and A/B tests that turn more of your traffic into pipeline.
Campaign pages and microsites, plus a section library for launching without a developer.
Further reading

A step-by-step website migration checklist: crawl, redirect map, metadata, schema and post-launch monitoring, so you change platforms without losing traffic.

A practical, no-fluff checklist for turning your SaaS homepage into a demo-booking machine — hero copy, proof, pricing clarity and CTAs that convert.
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