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SEO Migration Services

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Enterprise SEO Migration Service

Migrate Large Sites Without Losing Rankings

50K+

URLs Migrated

Across client projects

Avg. Traffic Loss

Post-migration target

99.8%

Redirect Accuracy

Verified programmatically

<48h

Index Recovery

Google re-crawl time

What Is Enterprise SEO Migration?

Enterprise SEO migration means moving a large-scale website — typically 10,000+ pages — to a new platform, domain, or architecture without losing search rankings, redirect chains, backlink equity, or organic traffic. The work covers URL mapping, structured data transfer, crawl budget management, and post-launch monitoring. Done right, your rankings don't move. Done wrong, they crater.

Waar projecten falen

Organic traffic drops 30-60% after a poorly executed migration For enterprise sites that depend on search traffic, that's six-figure revenue losses every month — sometimes more.

Legacy redirect chains grow with every migration, often hitting 4-5 hops Google stops following chains beyond 3 hops, which means deep-linked pages quietly vanish from the index. Nobody notices until the rankings are already gone.

Internal dev teams rarely have migration-specific SEO tooling or a proven methodology Ad-hoc approaches miss things — hreflang tags, canonical conflicts, parameter-based URLs. These aren't edge cases. They're the things that kill rankings.

Staging environments aren't crawlable, so problems only surface after launch By then, Google's already re-indexed broken pages and started downgrading rankings. You're playing catch-up on a live site.

Backlink equity built over 10+ years gets quietly destroyed by missing redirects Referring domains that once drove real authority now point to 404s, eroding a domain rating that took years to build.

Schema markup, Open Graph tags, and structured data get dropped during re-templating Rich snippet visibility disappears from SERPs, and click-through rates fall 20-40%. Most teams don't notice until they're wondering why impressions dropped.

Compliance

Full URL Inventory & Mapping

We crawl every indexed URL, parameter variant, and pagination path. Each source URL gets mapped to its destination using regex-based rules, with manual overrides for edge cases. Nothing gets assumed.

Redirect Chain Flattening

Legacy redirect chains get collapsed into single-hop 301s. We audit existing .htaccess, nginx, and edge-level redirects to clear out loops and chains before migration day — not after.

Backlink Equity Preservation

Every referring domain gets cross-referenced against the redirect map. High-authority inbound links go through priority QA so no equity leaks during the cutover.

Structured Data Transfer

Schema markup, Open Graph metadata, and Twitter Cards are audited before migration and validated after launch. We run every template through Google's Rich Results validator. If it's not passing, it doesn't go live.

Crawl Budget Optimization

XML sitemaps are regenerated, robots.txt is reconfigured, and we check the internal link architecture to make sure Googlebot can efficiently find all migrated content.

Post-Migration Monitoring

We monitor Google Search Console, server logs, and ranking positions for 30 days after launch. Anything unusual triggers immediate redirect corrections and re-indexation requests. We're watching daily, not weekly.

Wat we bouwen

Programmatic Redirect Generation

Automated scripts generate redirect rules directly from crawl data, with support for regex patterns covering dynamic URLs, query parameters, and multilingual path structures.

Pre-Launch Crawl Simulation

We run a staging crawler that mimics Googlebot behavior to catch 404s, redirect loops, and canonical conflicts before the site goes live. This is where most problems get killed.

Hreflang & Multilingual Mapping

International sites get dedicated hreflang validation so every language and region variant maps correctly to its new URL.

Edge-Level Redirect Deployment

Redirects deploy at the CDN edge via Cloudflare Workers or Vercel middleware — sub-millisecond response times instead of origin-level processing. Faster for users, better for crawl efficiency.

Search Console Bulk Validation

After migration, we submit updated sitemaps and use the URL Inspection API to programmatically request indexing for priority pages. We don't just wait for Google to find things.

Rank Tracking Dashboard

A custom monitoring dashboard tracks keyword positions, indexed page counts, and crawl stats daily for the first 90 days post-migration.

Ons proces

Discovery & Crawl Audit

We crawl the entire existing site, inventory all indexed URLs, analyze backlink profiles, and document current redirect chains. This becomes the source of truth for everything that follows.

Week 1-2

URL Mapping & Redirect Rules

Every source URL gets mapped to its destination. We generate redirect rules programmatically, handle edge cases manually, and flatten legacy chains into single-hop 301s. The map gets reviewed before a single redirect fires.

Week 3-4

Staging Validation & Crawl Testing

Redirects, metadata, structured data, and internal links are all validated on staging using automated crawl simulation. Every template type gets checked against its production equivalent.

Week 5-6

Migration Execution & Cutover

We deploy redirects at the edge, submit updated sitemaps to Google Search Console, and execute the DNS cutover during a low-traffic window with real-time monitoring running throughout. Nothing gets launched blind.

Week 7

Post-Launch Monitoring & Remediation

Daily monitoring of rankings, crawl stats, index coverage, and server logs for 30 days. Any anomalies get triaged and corrected within hours, not days.

Week 8-11

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Veelgestelde vragen

Hoe lang duurt een enterprise SEO migratie?

De meeste enterprise migraties duren 8-12 weken van de initiële crawl audit tot 30 dagen monitoring na lancering. De tijdlijn hangt af van sitegrote, redirect complexiteit en hoeveel legacy chains moeten worden afgeplat. Sites met 100K+ pagina's of meerdere language variants hebben meestal 12-16 weken nodig.

Verliezen we organic traffic tijdens de migratie?

Onze methodologie richt zich op nul verkeersverlies. Ontbrekende redirects en verbroken interne links veroorzaken de meeste post-migratie dalingen — we vangen beide op tijdens pre-launch crawl simulatie. De meeste klanten zien volledig ranking herstel binnen 48 uur na cutover. Sommigen zien zelfs verbeteringen omdat de architecture cleanup zelf helpt met crawlability.

Wat is het verschil tussen een site migratie en domain migratie?

Een sitemigratie verandert je platform of URL-structuur terwijl je hetzelfde domein behoudt. Een domeinmigratie verplaatst alles naar een nieuwe domeinnaam, wat extra stappen vereist zoals Google's Change of Address tool en het bijwerken van backlink profielen. We handelen beide af, maar domeinmigraties dragen hoger inherent risico mee en hebben langere monitoringsperiodes nodig. We zullen je van tevoren vertellen waar je aan begint.

Kunt u een site met 100.000+ pagina's migreren?

Ja. We gebruiken programmatische tooling om redirect regels van crawl data te genereren, en het schaalt naar elke sitegrote. De aanpak is hetzelfde of je 10K of 500K pagina's hebt — geautomatiseerde mapping met handmatige QA op waardevol pagina's en edge cases zoals geparameteriseerde URL's, gefacetteerde navigatie en paginering.

Handelt u meertalige en multi-regionale migraties af?

Absoluut. Meertalige sites hebben speciale hreflang mapping nodig zodat elke taal- en regio variant naar de juiste nieuwe URL verwijst. We valideren hreflang annotaties over alle varianten na migratie en controleren Google Search Console's International Targeting report op fouten gedurende de gehele monitoringsperiode. Het is een van de meest voorkomende dingen die teams verkeerd doen, en een van de moeilijkste om achteraf op te lossen.

Wat gebeurt er als rankings na migratie dalen?

Onze 30-daagse monitoring na lancering vangt anomalieën binnen uren op. Als rankings dalen, graven we in crawl logs en Search Console data om de oorzaak te vinden — meestal een gemiste redirect of canonical conflict — en implementeren meteen een fix. We beschouwen een migratie niet als klaar totdat rankings stabiel zijn of beter. Dat is geen verkoopargument. Zo moet het gewoon werken.

Enterprise SEO Migration from $12,000

Fixed-fee. 30-day post-launch monitoring included.

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