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Things To consider when migrating a website

Have you ever thought of website migration/revamping? Experts in Web Designing & Development say that in every 4-5 years we should redisgn our website in order to keep up with design trends and web standards. Read the document and share your thoughts with us

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Things To consider when migrating a website

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  1. Things to Consider When Migrating a Website By

  2. • Why we need to migrate/revamp our websites. Have you ever thought why it is necessary to migrate/revamp our websites. • Expert web designers recommend that a website redesign need to be done every 4-5 years to keep up with design trends and web standards . • The change needs to be substantial enough to affect some of the core functionalities of the website. Technological changes like changes to the website’s structure, platform, content, location, or design are considered to account for migration.

  3. The real question however is, when is a site migration inevitable?. We have created a simple checklist go through the check list if you find most answers is yes then you should consider a website migration/revamping • Your current outdated website doesn’t represent your brand. • If you change the name of the company or need to adopt a new domain name/URLs. • When the site needs to be moved to HTTPS from HTTP(adding SSL certificates) • When you need to change the location of the site from one server to another • The current CMS needs to be changed to accommodate more functionality

  4. Now that you have finally decided to migrate the website, there are certain things you need to keep in mind. Anyone you speak to about this will tell you that site migration will result in reduced traffic and revenue loss. Yeah it would be true in some cases, Web design company Dubai can help to migrate without losing any traffic or revenue by planning ahead each step. In fact, you may even see considerable growth right after launching a revamped website. Below mentioned are the subtle points to keep in mind before and after migration. • •

  5. Things to Consider Before Migration Create a Plan Crawl your old site Identify your top-performing pages Set up a test environment Google Search Console Temporarily block access to the new site Crawl your new site: Update your site’s DNS settings Speed comparison Configure analytics: Update canonical tags and Prepare your redirects Generate your new XML sitemap Configure your URL parameters • • • • • • • • • • • • •

  6. The Day of Launch • Enable and test your redirects • Verify Internal links • Verify Canonicalization • Configure your web analytics • Submit your new XML Sitemap

  7. After Migration • Site Auditing • Check the performance • Validate your new site redirects • External links • Validate your ads and Execute your updated campaigns • Monitor your log files • Rankings and Traffic Monitor • Troubleshoot

  8. Thank You

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