Move your website without
losing what it earns.
Off Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, an old WordPress or an agency you have lost contact with, onto something you own and can afford to keep. Every URL accounted for, every redirect one to one, and the rankings you already have still there afterwards.
Would rather do it yourself? The whole method is written out, free and in full, in how to move your website without losing your Google rankings. It is the same method we follow below. We would rather you got it right than got it from us.
Migrations do not lose rankings.
One mistake does.
Almost every migration that damages a site fails in the same single way: every old address is redirected to the new homepage. It feels tidy, and it throws away the standing of every page individually. The page that ranked for "emergency boiler repair Solihull" stops existing, and the homepage does not inherit its position, because the homepage is about something else. Avoid that one mistake and most of the risk is already gone.
One to one, never many to one
Each old address gets its own destination on a matching subject. A redirect to something less relevant is treated closer to a removal than a move.
Same address wherever possible
Redesigns often change URLs because the new system prefers a different pattern. That preference is not worth what it costs, so we keep the old addresses unless there is a reason not to.
Everything else that moves
Images and PDFs have their own addresses and their own rankings. Canonical tags, structured data, robots.txt, analytics and Search Console all move too, and each one bites quietly when it does not.
Redirects stay for ever
We do not take them out after six months. Other people's links never expire, printed material lasts years, and a redirect costs nothing to leave in place.
Five steps, in this order.
Tap a step to see what happens in it.
Your sitemap is the quick version. Search Console under Pages is the list that matters, because it is what is actually indexed. We take both, add the pages other sites link to, and note which ones earn anything. You cannot preserve what nobody wrote down.
Where a URL can stay the same, it stays the same, and that single decision removes most of the risk. Where one has to move, it gets a matching destination written down before anything is built. Bathrooms goes to bathrooms, not to the services index.
The new site goes up somewhere temporary and blocked from indexing, and unblocking it is a step on the launch list rather than something anyone has to remember. A Disallow copied from staging is invisible to visitors and total to search engines, and it has taken down more migrations than anything else here.
The redirect map is complete before we go live, not after. Every one is a 301, the permanent kind, because a 302 tells search engines to keep the standing on the old address. Then we walk a sample of old URLs and confirm each lands on the right page in one hop rather than three.
A dip for a few weeks is normal even when everything is right, because Google has to recrawl and reassociate every page. We watch coverage and impressions weekly and tell you which it is. A drop still there after a month is a fault, not patience, and the first place to look is always the redirects.
Inventory
Your sitemap is the quick version. Search Console under Pages is the list that matters, because it is what is actually indexed. We take both, add the pages other sites link to, and note which ones earn anything. You cannot preserve what nobody wrote down.
Yours, and portable.
The reason most people are moving in the first place is that the last arrangement was not really theirs. A platform that owns the pages, a monthly fee for editing your own text, or a developer who has stopped answering. Repeating that in a new colour scheme is not a migration.
So the domain is registered in your name, and stays that way. You get the access to it. If you leave us, the site and its content come with you, and the redirect map is a file you hold rather than a setting inside somebody else's dashboard.
We will also tell you when moving is not worth it. If the current site is doing its job and the only complaint is that it looks dated, that is a redesign and possibly not even that. The audit is a cheaper way to find out than a migration is.
Scoped first, then quoted.
There is no number on this page and that is deliberate. A migration is priced off the size of the estate, and the whole argument above is that the inventory comes first. A figure printed before anyone has counted the pages would contradict the method underneath it.
What we can say now: the inventory and the redirect map are the work, and they are the same work whether the site has twelve pages or two hundred, which is why we look before we quote. If what you actually want is a new site rather than the old one moved, that has a fixed price and it is on the Presence page. The two builds we offer are set out on websites.
Moving data rather than a website?
Different job, same discipline. Production, stock and client data coming off an ageing ERP or a legacy platform is data migration, and it runs on the same principle: inventory before anything moves, and the numbers tested against the original before the old thing is switched off.
We do this anywhere in the UK, and the work is the same wherever the business is: a redirect map does not change by postcode. The city pages cover what tends to come up locally, in Birmingham, London, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol and Glasgow.
Tell us where the site is now.
The platform it is on and roughly how many pages it has is enough to get a straight answer about what moving it involves. Write a couple of lines, or take half an hour if you would rather talk.
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