How to migrate as smoothly as possible
The transferring process can be automated, which will save you a huge amount of time.
So here is 3-phase checklist to make your migration perfect.
Automating various migration-related tasks can save you a great deal of time and effort.
Avoid losing any traffic, it’s important to make sure that if you do lose traffic, you lose it when business is already slow.
You need the data from your old/current website - all URLs, page titles, metadata, redirects, broken links, etc.
It involves a person or team of people doing the work of copying and pasting a site’s content from one platform to another.
This method is obviously better:
Once you went live, you should closely observe the crawl stats that are now available in the Search Console. For the first 2-3 weeks, you should keep an eye for reported crawl errors from your tools and take necessary actions (such as implementing 301 redirects on all possible 404 errors).
No matter how thorough your preparation was, there will surely be a few things you will have to adjust after the data transfer.
Every millisecond counts, so you need to review it closely. Every webmaster knows that fast site speed is an SEO ranking signal across devices.