The migration on weekdays at the beginning of the week

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On weekends, the SEO specialist or developer may not pick up the phone and it will be difficult to fix errors caused by the migration in time. Crawl your old website and get all the important information in one place. For example , you can see if there are missing titles, meta descriptions, alt attributes, and other important information. Later, you can easily fix the errors and compare them with the current version of the website. Screaming Frog is a great tool for this purpose . Analyze organic traffic . Use Google Analytics and Google Search Console to find out where and how organic traffic is flowing to your website, and get a detailed overview of the pages that should stay on your website. Does your website receive traffic mainly from product pages? How many visitors find your website through category pages?

Have you forgotten to take into account parametric pages with filters? For content websites, this can also be labels. Categorize all organic traffic into these segments. If you have a well-designed URL Cambodia Mobile Database structure, this should not be a big problem. And if it is poorly designed, ask a web developer. Sketch out the new website structure in a graphic studio and compare it with the previous one. This will help you visualize and compare better. Is there something important missing from the new website? Could something useful be added to the website? Use the free version of XMind.net for these needs . TIP: Maintain a hierarchical URL structure according to logical division.

If it is a larger website (around 500 URLs or more), migrate gradually through a test version or staging website. The new version of the website can also be created first on a separate subdomain and then moved. Prevent access to search engine robots . In the test version, don't forget to disable indexing of pages for search engines and secure it with user login. Google may not respect the directive in robots.txt and this could cause more harm than good. For the best possible understanding of your new website by search engines, generate a new Sitemap.xml, which you will then upload to Google Search Console (GSC). At the same time, you should also include robots.