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SEO Migration Protection

Redesign your site.
Keep your rankings.

Every website redesign, replatform or domain move is an SEO risk event. We map every URL, specify every redirect, and monitor the launch — so the traffic you've spent years earning doesn't disappear in a weekend.

Live Migration Health
Migration Project
yoursite.com.au → new build
Scanning…
Redirect Mapping
Complete
Crawl Parity
14 Gaps
Indexation Status
On Track
Core Web Vitals Delta
Regression
Backlink Preservation
Mapped
Traffic Retention Forecast
Low Risk
61%
Of migrations lose meaningful organic traffic without SEO oversight
100%
Redirect mapping coverage required before we approve a go-live
14
Days of daily post-launch monitoring on every migration
812
Weeks to full ranking recovery when planned properly

The step most agencies skip entirely

Web design and development agencies are rarely SEO-led. URLs get restructured for "cleaner" navigation, old pages quietly disappear, and redirects are treated as a nice-to-have rather than a launch-blocking requirement. By the time the ranking drop shows up in Search Console, the damage is already done.

We sit alongside your design or development team as the dedicated SEO safeguard — mapping every URL, specifying every redirect, and treating the same technical rigour we apply to ongoing SEO as a pre-launch checklist nothing ships without.

URL Mapping Redirect Strategy Launch Monitoring

Typical Agency

Treats redirects as an afterthought, if at all
No pre-launch crawl comparison against the old site
Discovers the traffic drop weeks after launch
No content or internal-linking parity check
Recovery is reactive, not planned for

Search Authority

Full 301 redirect map, verified before go-live
Complete crawl parity audit — old site vs new
Daily monitoring for the first two weeks post-launch
Content and internal-link equity preserved by design
A documented rollback and recovery plan, ready before launch

Four pillars of migration protection

Every migration engagement covers all four phases — because a great redirect map still fails if launch-day monitoring catches problems too late.

Pre-Migration Audit & URL Mapping

A full crawl and export of every indexed URL, its rankings, backlinks and traffic — mapped one-to-one against the new site's structure before a single page goes live.

Redirect Strategy & Implementation

A complete 301 redirect map covering every legacy URL, tested for redirect chains and loops, then verified against server logs after implementation.

Launch-Day Monitoring

Real-time tracking of crawl behaviour, indexation, server errors and ranking movement in the critical first hours and days after your new site goes live.

Post-Migration Recovery & Reporting

Weekly tracking of rankings, traffic and indexation against pre-migration baselines, with rapid fixes for anything that slips — tied into your ongoing technical SEO programme.

From migration plan to protected rankings

A structured four-step process run alongside your design or development team, from kickoff through to post-launch recovery.

01

Baseline & URL Inventory

We crawl and export every indexed URL, its current rankings, organic traffic, backlinks and internal links — the baseline everything else is measured against.

02

Redirect Map & Technical QA

Every old URL is mapped to its new equivalent, redirects are specified and tested on staging, and we run a full technical QA pass before anything goes live.

03

Go-Live Monitoring

On launch day, we track crawl activity, indexation, server response codes and early ranking movement in real time, ready to flag and fix issues immediately.

04

Recovery Tracking

Ongoing monitoring against your pre-migration baseline for the following weeks, with a documented report showing exactly where rankings and traffic land.

Tangible outputs at every stage

No vague reassurances about "we'll keep an eye on it" — every migration delivers a concrete set of documents and reports you can hand to your dev team or board.

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Pre-Migration SEO Baseline Report

Full export of indexed URLs, rankings, organic traffic and backlink profile, timestamped before any changes begin.

Complete 301 Redirect Map

Every legacy URL mapped one-to-one to its new destination, tested for chains, loops and dead ends before go-live.

Pre-Launch Technical QA Checklist

Robots.txt, sitemap, canonical tags, structured data and crawlability verified on staging before the new site ships.

Launch-Day Monitoring Log

Real-time tracking of crawl activity, server response codes and indexation in the hours and days immediately after launch.

Ranking & Traffic Recovery Tracking

Weekly comparison of rankings and organic traffic against your pre-migration baseline for the first two months.

Documented Rollback Plan

A clear, pre-agreed contingency plan for what happens if a serious issue is found — decided calmly before launch, not during a crisis.

Everything you need to know about migration protection

Questions we hear most often from Australian businesses planning a redesign, replatform or domain move.

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As early as possible — ideally at the planning stage, before your developer or agency starts building the new site. The biggest SEO risks (URL structure changes, lost content, missing redirects) are architectural decisions that are cheap to fix on paper and expensive to fix after launch. If you're already mid-build, we can still step in, but the earlier we're involved the less traffic is at risk.
Any change that alters your URLs, hosting, platform or domain: a full redesign, a CMS or platform change (e.g. WordPress to a headless build), moving to a new domain, consolidating multiple sites into one, switching from HTTP to HTTPS, or restructuring your site's information architecture. Even a redesign that keeps every URL the same can still affect rankings if content, internal linking or page templates change significantly.
It varies widely, but uncoordinated migrations — missing redirects, changed URLs, thin or removed content — are one of the most common causes of sudden, severe organic traffic drops we see across the industry. A properly planned migration with full redirect mapping and crawl parity checks should show a temporary dip at most, with rankings and traffic recovering within weeks rather than months.
We don't build websites — we work alongside your developer, designer or platform team as the SEO safeguard throughout the project. That means URL mapping, redirect specification, technical QA before launch, and monitoring after launch. We integrate with whatever build process you're already running rather than replacing it.
We monitor crawl behaviour, indexation and ranking movement daily for the first two weeks after go-live, and weekly for the following month. If we spot an issue — a missed redirect, a deindexed section, an unexpected ranking drop — we flag it immediately and work with your team to fix it, rather than waiting for a monthly report to surface the problem.

Migration protection works best with these

A safe migration is the starting line, not the finish — these services build on the foundation once you're live.

Available across Australia

Senior migration protection, delivered remotely to businesses in every major city.

Planning a redesign or replatform?

Get a free migration review — we'll show you the SEO risks in your current plan and what a full redirect map and launch monitoring would look like.

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No lock-in contracts  ·  Australian-based team  ·  Daily monitoring for the first two weeks post-launch