How to move your website and rankings to a new host
The Ultimate SEO Migration Checklist
Chris Canada
Server to Server
Redesigns
Domain Names
3 Types of Migrations
Migrations needing DNS changes should start with setting Time-To-Live to ~0
Always Remember!
Server-to-Server Migrations
Examples:Moving to a new web hostNew server in your clusterMoving to a new data center
Create & no-index new site
Move content & databases
Test site on new server
Server-to-Server Migrations
Remove no-index
Switch DNS
No-index old site
Server-to-Server Migrations
movewp.co/noindex
Website Redesigns
Examples:
Rebranding
Messaging Updates
Website Acquisitions
Sync page naming convention
Create & no-index new site
Back-up old site
Test new site
Website Redesigns
Page Audit with 301 Redirects
H1 & Meta Comparisons
Website Redesigns
movewp.co/pageaudit
Replace old site with new site
Remove no-index (if necessary)
No-index old site (if necessary)
Website Redesigns
Wildcard htaccess redirect
Domain Migrations
movewp.co/wild301
Examples:sub.domain.com to domain.comdomain.com to newdomain.com
Chris Canada