migrate-site
migrate-site helps you orchestrate website transitions without sacrificing search visibility. This skill guides you through migration planning, URL mapping, redirect strategies, and post-migration validation to keep your rankings intact. Built for AI agents managing technical SEO workflows.
migrate-site guides you through a structured migration process that preserves search visibility. The skill helps you plan the transition, map old URLs to new ones with proper 301 redirects, audit high-value pages beforehand, and monitor performance post-launch. By following migrate-site's workflow—including pre-migration SEO audits, redirect validation, and traffic recovery procedures—you maintain your rankings during domain changes, CMS switches, or URL restructures.
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migrate-site guides you through a structured migration process that preserves search visibility. The skill helps you plan the transition, map old URLs to new ones with proper 301 redirects, audit high-value pages beforehand, and monitor performance post-launch. By following migrate-site's workflow—including pre-migration SEO audits, redirect validation, and traffic recovery procedures—you maintain your rankings during domain changes, CMS switches, or URL restructures.
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- migrate-site assists you in creating comprehensive redirect mappings for all your domain transitions.
- migrate-site provides post-migration monitoring and recovery procedures to address traffic declines.
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How do I migrate my website without losing SEO rankings?
migrate-site guides you through a structured migration process that preserves search visibility. The skill helps you plan the transition, map old URLs to new ones with proper 301 redirects, audit high-value pages beforehand, and monitor performance post-launch. By following migrate-site's workflow—including pre-migration SEO audits, redirect validation, and traffic recovery procedures—you maintain your rankings during domain changes, CMS switches, or URL restructures.
What should migrate-site help me create for domain changes?
migrate-site assists you in creating comprehensive redirect mappings for all your domain transitions. Whether you're changing domains entirely, switching CMS platforms, or restructuring URLs, the skill helps you establish 301 redirects that signal permanent moves to search engines. migrate-site ensures every old URL maps correctly to its new equivalent, preventing broken links and preserving the SEO equity you've built.
How can I recover from traffic drops after a site migration?
migrate-site provides post-migration monitoring and recovery procedures to address traffic declines. The skill helps you identify which pages lost visibility, diagnose root causes (broken redirects, crawl errors, indexation issues), and execute targeted fixes. migrate-site's recovery framework includes redirect chain detection, re-submission to search engines, and performance validation to restore your traffic to pre-migration levels.
Which pages need special attention during my website migration?
migrate-site helps you identify high-value pages that require priority handling. The skill analyzes your site to flag pages with strong search rankings, high traffic, or critical business value. By focusing migrate-site's attention on these pages first—ensuring their redirects are perfect and monitoring their post-migration performance closely—you minimize risk to your most important assets during the transition.
What rollback criteria should I define before migrating my site?
migrate-site helps you establish clear rollback criteria and recovery procedures before launch. Define thresholds for acceptable traffic loss, ranking drops, or crawl errors that would trigger a rollback. migrate-site guides you in documenting these decision points, preparing your rollback infrastructure, and creating step-by-step procedures to quickly revert if the migration fails, protecting your business from prolonged downtime.
What does a site migration checklist from migrate-site include?
migrate-site provides a comprehensive migration checklist covering planning, execution, and validation phases. The checklist includes pre-migration SEO audits, redirect mapping verification, DNS configuration, search console updates, monitoring setup, and post-launch traffic analysis. migrate-site ensures you don't skip critical steps, helping you coordinate technical SEO workflows and maintain visibility throughout your website transition.
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Migrate Site
Guide a domain migration, CMS switch, or URL restructure without losing rankings — redirect mapping, monitoring plan, and rollback criteria.
Migration Types
| Type | Risk Level | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Domain change | High | olddomain.com → newdomain.com |
| Protocol change | Low | HTTP → HTTPS |
| CMS switch | Medium-High | WordPress → Next.js, Shopify → custom |
| URL restructure | Medium | /blog/2024/post → /blog/post |
| Subdomain migration | Medium | blog.example.com → example.com/blog |
| Design/template change | Low-Medium | Same URLs, new templates |
All migrations carry SEO risk. The goal is to minimize the traffic dip and speed up recovery.
Phase 1: Pre-Migration Audit
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