How to Maintain Ranks After eCommerce SEO Migration?
What is SEO migration? SEO migration happens when an e-commerce site is migrated from one platform to another. A site migration involves the transferring of search engine ranking, authority, and indexing signals, which indicates to search engines that the store has changed or the website URLs have changed. SEO must be considered and included with any site migration otherwise, you may lose your search engine standing (rankings and traffic). The thing is, any site migration runs the risk of jeopardizing traffic volume, at least temporarily, since Google won't register immediately that a change has taken place and that it must adjust its index accordingly. A professional site migration will protect traffic flow, and eventually, Google will recognize your new site and give it the same ranking as the original site. However, that is the best you can hope for. In reality, site migrations damage SEO standing. Because ranking on Google is so important and can be jeopardized by migration, ...