#1. Setup the new website on a temporary URL. Edit Robot.txt and make it not crawlable. <br />Syntax <br />User-agent: * <br />Disallow: / <br /> <br />#2. Test new website for broken links <br />Use Xenu to check for broken links <br />http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html <br />Fix all broken links before migration <br /> <br />#3 – Create a list of all pages from your OLD website and create a site map <br /> <br />#4 – Create page-by-page 301 redirections to redirect old URL's to new URL'S <br />.htaccess file is where you edit for redirection <br />All URL in the site map should be redirected <br /> <br />#5- Switch to the new website (all at once) <br />Google recommends to migrate everything once <br /> <br />#6- Make sure that the new website is verified with Google Search Console <br />Google console -- https://search.google.com/search-console/welcome <br /> <br />#7- In Google Search Console, use the URL INSPECTION and make sure Google can properly read and index your new site <br /> <br />#8- Check robots.txt <br />Make sure robots.text are proper and there are no issue blocking any pages or URL <br /> <br />#9- Optimize and resubmit XML sitemap to Google and Bing <br />Using Google Console <br /> <br />#10- Monitor your rankings <br />Make sure you have a monitoring system in place before and after you do a website redesign. <br /> <br />Bonus 1 : Make sure you monitor the bounce rate for your site before and after redesign. <br />Bonus 2 : if your social media count becomes zero immediately after the redesign don't panic. <br /> <br />Visit our site www.DCDigitals.com
