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SEO & GEO Services

Move the site. Keep the rankings.

Rankings do not belong to your brand. They belong to your URLs, your content, and the signals attached to them. We run redesigns, replatforms, and domain moves as governed SEO projects, so the equity you spent years earning arrives intact on the new site.

Migrations Run on aProven SEO/GEO Tool Stack
Where rankings get lost

Migrations fail by accumulation, not catastrophe.

Very few migrations die from one big mistake. They die from a dozen small ones landing at the same time: a stray noindex, a redirect pointed at the homepage, a template that dropped its schema. Each is easy to catch on its own. Together, under launch-week pressure, they are impossible to catch from memory. These are the failure modes we engineer out of every project.

01Critical

Missing or lazy redirects

Every changed URL that launches without a one-to-one redirect sends its accumulated equity to a 404. Mapping everything to the homepage is barely better.

Our safeguard: Every URL mapped 1:1 and QA tested before launch
02Compounding

Redirect chains

Migrations stacked on old migrations quietly build multi-hop chains. Google recommends three hops or fewer, and every extra hop dilutes the signal.

Our safeguard: Chains flattened to a single hop in the map
03Critical

Staging leaks

A noindex tag or robots.txt block copied from staging into production can deindex a site in days. It is the most expensive one-line mistake in SEO.

Our safeguard: Launch-day robots.txt and noindex verification
04High

Lost content parity

A page that keeps its URL but loses half its copy can still lose its ranking. Headings, body content, and intent alignment have to survive the redesign.

Our safeguard: Priority pages checked old against new
05Silent

Invisible layers left behind

Schema markup, canonicals, hreflang, and conversion tracking live in templates. New templates ship without them unless someone specifies and tests each one.

Our safeguard: Schema and tracking specified per template
06Delayed loss

Redirects removed too early

Google says keep redirects at least 180 days; its own engineers suggest a year. Removing them at 90 days because the project closed loses rankings late.

Our safeguard: Redirects kept live 180+ days as infrastructure
Our approach

Audit first, launch once, monitor relentlessly.

We treat a migration as a search engineering project with a design deliverable attached, not the other way around. The work starts weeks before launch with a complete benchmark of the current site, because you cannot protect what you never measured, and it ends only after the new site has proven itself against that baseline.

01
Phase 01Weeks 4-3 before launch

Audit and benchmark first

A full URL inventory from crawls, sitemaps, analytics, and backlink data, plus rankings, Core Web Vitals, and conversion baselines, all exported and dated before anything moves.

URL inventoryRanking baselinesCore Web VitalsConversion benchmarks
02
Phase 02Weeks 3-2 before launch

One-to-one redirect mapping

Every indexed URL mapped to its single most equivalent destination, chains flattened to the final target, and the map QA tested before launch, not after.

1:1 mappingChain flatteningEquity routingMap QA
03
Phase 03Weeks 2-1 before launch

Content and metadata parity

Priority pages compared old against new: headings, body copy, titles, descriptions, and search intent alignment all verified to survive the redesign.

Heading parityBody contentTitles & metasIntent alignment
04
Phase 04Launch day

Launch-day execution

Staging restrictions removed, redirects published and spot-tested, production robots.txt verified, sitemaps submitted, a full crawl run, and tracking confirmed live.

Robots.txt verifiedRedirects spot-testedSitemaps submittedTracking confirmed
05
Phase 05Days 1-60

60-day monitoring

Daily checks in week one, weekly after: index coverage, 404s, redirect behavior, priority rankings against baseline, and deliberate resolution of everything found.

Daily week-one checks404 triageCoverage trackingRanking watch
06
Phase 06Day one onward

Ready for AI search

Entity clarity, answer-ready content, structured data, and llms.txt files, so the site you launch is legible to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, not just the ten blue links.

Schema parityllms.txtEntity clarityAnswer-ready content
What you get
A benchmarked launch, a QA tested redirect map, and 60 days of monitoring
Every migration follows these six phases from day one
The goal
Move the site without losing what it earned.
Benchmark · Map · Rebuild · Launch · Monitor · Report
Open the migration checklist
Timeline
Most migrations stabilize within 4 to 8 weeks of launch
Redirects stay live for at least 180 days after
The migration checklist

Run the same 89-item checklist we run

Our free interactive Website Migration SEO Checklist is the exact playbook behind this service: 89 items across 12 sections and all three phases. It tracks your progress, classifies issues by severity so your team knows what to fix immediately versus what can wait, and exports a scored report you can hand to stakeholders.

Pre-Launch9 items
  • Discovery and URL inventory
  • Page-level value and risk scoring
  • Performance and ranking baselines
  • Staging and crawl control
  • One-to-one redirect strategy
  • Content parity verification
  • Site architecture and internal links
  • Technical SEO and rendering QA
  • Structured data and GEO/AI visibility
Launch & Post-Launch6 items
  • Analytics, consent, and conversion tracking
  • Pre-launch signoff
  • Launch-day execution
  • 60-day monitoring cadence
  • 404 triage and resolution
  • Baseline exports and reporting
Framework

How a Silverback migration moves forward

Step 01

Inventory & Benchmark

Every URL, ranking, backlink, and conversion baseline captured and dated before anything changes. This benchmark is what makes post-launch problems detectable.

Step 02

Map & Mitigate

One-to-one redirect mapping for every changing URL, risk scoring for every priority page, and a mitigation plan for anything the new design removes.

Step 03

Rebuild the Invisible

Schema, canonicals, hreflang, analytics, and conversion tracking specified per template and tested on staging, not discovered missing in week two.

Step 04

Launch & Verify

A scripted launch-day sequence: restrictions lifted, redirects live and tested, robots.txt verified, sitemaps submitted, full crawl run, tracking confirmed.

Step 05

Monitor & Stabilize

Daily checks through week one, then weekly for 60 days: index coverage, 404s, redirect behavior, and priority rankings measured against the baseline.

Step 06

Report & Handoff

A clear before-and-after account of what moved, what recovered, and what improved, plus the redirect and monitoring infrastructure your team keeps.

Expected outcomes

What your team can expect.

Some ranking volatility in the weeks after launch is normal even in a perfect migration. What you should expect is a controlled dip that stabilizes and recovers, measured honestly against a real baseline.

01

Search Equity Preserved
Through the Move

Rankings, backlinks, and traffic arrive intact on the new site.

Launch vs baseline

RankingsHeldpriority set
Backlinks1:1routed
Organic+4%day 60
Measured honestly against the pre-migration baseline.
02

A Redirect Map Built as
Permanent Infrastructure

Every URL routed one-to-one and kept live long after launch.

Redirect registry

  • Retained 180+ days minimum
  • Chains flattened to one hop
  • Documented in the handoff
Your redirects outlive the project, not the other way around.
03

Issues Caught in Hours,
Not Quarters

Post-launch monitoring surfaces problems while they are cheap to fix.

Monitoring feed

404 spikes0week one
CoverageStabledaily checks
AlertsLive60 days
Daily checks in week one, weekly through day 60.
04

Ready for AI Search
From Day One

The new site launches legible to AI assistants, not just crawlers.

GEO launch kit

Schema parityllms.txtEntity clarityAnswer-ready pagesMarkdown mirrors
Cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity at launch.
Migration FAQs

Common questions about migration SEO.

Straight answers from the team that runs these projects. These are the questions we hear most often from teams planning a redesign, a replatform, or a domain move, and the honest version of what to expect. If yours is not covered here, a discovery call is the fastest way to get a real answer.

Common questions5 answers

Some short-term volatility is normal while search engines re-index the new site, and Google notes that takes weeks for a medium-sized site. A properly planned migration with complete redirects and content parity typically stabilizes and recovers. Lasting losses almost always trace back to skipped steps.

Ready when you are

Migrate without losing ground.

The best time to protect your rankings is before anything moves. Bring us in while the old site is still live and we will benchmark everything, map every URL, and run the launch so nothing depends on somebody remembering.