What is site migrations?
Replatforms, redesigns and domain moves executed without losing rankings: pre-migration crawl and ranking baselines, complete redirect mapping with QA, staged rollout and 30 days of daily post-launch monitoring.
What this service covers
- Capture a full crawl and ranking baseline before anything changes
- Build and QA a complete redirect map, URL by URL
- Preserve schema, internal linking and metadata through the move
- Run a staged rollout with defined rollback criteria
- Monitor daily for 30 days post-launch and fix fast
Who it is for
Businesses that already have something worth promoting and need it found. If you are pre-launch with no product and no site, start with the consulting hour instead — a retainer would be premature and we will say so.
Surfaces
Where this makes you visible
FAQ
Questions we get asked
How far ahead should we involve you?
Before the new site is built, not after. The most expensive migration failures are architectural decisions made months earlier that cannot be undone cheaply. Involving us at wireframe stage costs a fraction of fixing a launched migration.
What happens if rankings drop anyway?
Some short-term volatility is normal while search engines reprocess. We monitor daily against the baseline, so we can tell within days whether it is expected reprocessing or a genuine fault, and fix the fault. Without a baseline, that distinction is impossible to make.
How long before we see results?
Traditional ranking improvements typically appear within 60 to 90 days, faster on pages already ranking between positions 8 and 20. AI citations follow a consistent curve: entity indexing at 30 to 45 days, first citations around day 60, consistent mentions by day 90, stable visibility at 4 to 6 months.
What does it cost?
Consulting is $30 per hour. Retainers are scoped after the audit, because quoting before diagnosis is guesswork. Run the free audit first and the priority usually becomes obvious.
Next step
See where you stand before you buy Site Migrations.
Twelve AI eligibility checks against your live URL. No card, no call, about sixty seconds.