SEO Website Migration Services

SEO site migration services that deliver a smooth transition while safeguarding your online presence and standing.

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Big Leap has been a great partner. They have become like an extension of our team rather than a vendor that you rarely hear from. We’re in constant communication between both teams and work on a multitude of projects together at all times. Big Leap has also been easy to integrate into projects with other partners of ours, expanding our marketing team’s capabilities.

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Common Pitfalls of a Site Migration

SEO affects a range of aspects of your site, including visibility, traffic, and rankings. So without a proper SEO lens helming your migration, you compromise your site’s online standing.

Here are some all-too-common pitfalls of site migrations.

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You Lose Visibility from Search Engines

As much as website migrations bring growing pains for your team, these changes make search engines uncomfortable too. Google won’t know what’s changing.

What we do: Our team leverages SEO to explain to search engines what, why, and how your site is shifting. This assures we’re setting up your migration for success.

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Ranking and Traffic Fluctuations

Traffic and ranking fluctuations are often the norm when migrating your site. Search engines need time to understand the changes and update their indexes.

What we do: While you can’t control temporary traffic dips, they can be limited with Big Leap’s dedicated SEO professionals involved during every step of the process.

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Not Planning for Algorithm Updates

Just when you think site migrations can’t get any more complicated, the ever-changing algorithm updates make it an even more volatile journey.

What we do: To help mitigate the impact of updates, we proactively build precautionary steps to maintain your visibility. Our team consistently has their ear to the ground, monitoring updates.

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Technical Hurdles

Crawling/indexing issues are no strangers during a site migration. A lack of technical SEO elements in place sets your site up for various hurdles and longer-term impacts.

What we do: Our team invests time to address technical SEO elements prior to your migration. This helps minimize issues and safeguards your online standing.

Our Website Migration Services

We have three main phases in a migration:
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Pre-launch/redesign

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Launch

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Post-launch

Each stage entails unique website migration checklist items (shared with you) that are tailored to the type of migration service your site merits.

The common types of migration services Big Leap has first-hand experience handling include:

Rebranding or Acquisition

Undergoing a rebrand or acquisition?

  • Update domain name
  • Make structural changes (site hierarchy, navigation, internal linking)
  • Refresh the look and feel of your site
  • Merge multiple sites and redirect outdated URLs

Web Hosting Migration

We’ll consult with and assist your development team to ensure SEO-related mistakes are avoided. Don’t have a dedicated development team? We can conduct the entire migration for select CMS/platforms and web hosts for you.

Our digital marketing and web development teams ensure your site is copied, reinstalled, and reconfigured on your new hosting provider.

From Transition to Triumph: Unveiling Site Migration Success

Our clients are a testament to the value of an SEO-centered approach to your site migration strategy. Learn about their experiences and the long-term results we’ve been able to accomplish.

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Site Migrations FAQ

A site migration is when your website undergoes considerable changes that impact its visibility on search engines.

There are several reasons a business might need to migrate its website. They include:

  • Business acquisitions and mergers
  • Rebranding/redesign
  • Outdated elements that require moving to a new CMS/platform

Executing the reasons above requires facilitating actions such as:

  • Switching platforms or web hosts
  • Updating domain name
  • Merging two websites and ensuring the redirection of outdated URLs to the correct pages
  • Removing a page to send users to a new page
  • Making structural changes, such as site hierarchy, navigation, and internal linking shifts
  • Altering the look and feel of your site, incorporating media, or boosting your site speed

The time spent on a site migration depends on:

  • The size of your site
  • The server(s) being migrated to and from
  • The amount of changes being made to the site including the structure
  • The number of URLs and redirects required
  • Whether there are international pages to be migrated

A straightforward change can take from 30 minutes to up to half a day. For larger sites, the entire process may span weeks or months. This includes all areas of production:

  • Planning
  • Meetings
  • Collaboration
  • Design/Development
  • Testing while in staging, pre-launch, during launch, and post-launch

As with most digital marketing projects, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach to site migrations. Thus, before solidifying project plans, we encourage you to speak with a site migration specialist.

There are various types of site migrations, such as:

  • Site merges
  • Site rebranding
  • Platform or host changes
  • Structural changes
  • Design/UX changes
  • Content changes

Migrations may encompass one or more of the above. Whatever your needs, finding a website migration service partner with proven experience and expertise in those areas is essential.

What Our Clients Are Saying

“I never fail to be impressed by the professionalism and positive attitude of my Big Leap team. They take a humble approach to SEO, consistently over-delivering on results, working honestly and creatively to solve problems. Whether they are working with our developers, or working with our other agencies and teams, I trust the Big Leap team as much as I would trust my own internal team.”

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“The Big Leap team has played a vital role in growing our national and local organic digital presence, helping us surpass our competition. They’re always looking for areas of improvement, and they are transparent about the results. They have been a great and seamless team to work with and can quickly pivot priorities when needed.”

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“Their level of transparency sets them apart. It’s a trait that’s increasingly important in the SEO industry, so I truly respect their openness and honesty.”

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“Big Leap is highly competent at content optimization and keyword research. They effectively allocate resources to maximize results. One of their content pieces is among our site’s five most-viewed pages. Overall, they’re a group of smart people that know SEO strategy.”

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“Bigleap has helped us consistently improve our SEO rankings and increase our organic traffic and revenue. Since they have joined the team (about a year ago) we have more than doubled the amount of revenue from organic sources.”

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“The workflow was seamless. They acted as a part of our internal team and went the extra mile to assure we were happy with the results. I really appreciate Big Leap’s level of expertise. They can solve complex problems in a timely manner.”

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“We worked closely together on auditing the website, building a prioritized list of what we needed to tackle – from keywords to content – and what would drive the most impact. They spend hours keeping up on the latest so I don’t have to make recommendations based on what would help our brand – not generic advice but tailored to our industry and vertical. Any feedback has always been ingested and resulted in changes that have made our collaboration even better. The team at Big Leap has truly risen to every challenge and has made us better for it.”

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Experience a Smooth and Successful SEO Site Migration with Big Leap

Over the years, Big Leap has conducted 100+ successful site migrations. In addition, we’ve helped clients recover from SEO declines due to haphazard migrations done at prior agencies. With this, our team understands the essentials for delivering an effective site transition.

If you are preparing for an upcoming migration, contact Big Leap’s site migration experts today. Together, we can successfully migrate your site while minimizing ranking fluctuations.

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