Switching to a new website & Search Engine Rankings
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Hello!
We have been doing a lot of work on our SEO over the last few months and are thrilled to be in the top four four "edmonton website design" in our city. However, we are planning to launch a new website soon and are very concerned that this could negatively effect our rankings (as was the case with one of our competitors this week). What tips and techniques can you recommend in this case?
On paper, the SEO on our new site is much better than the last - the url structure, contact info and content is much more targeted to our desired search terms, however, I don't want to take any chances. Is there any way to be certain (as certain as possible) that we will not get bumped to page 2?
Thanks,
Anton
Creative Director
Web3 Marketing Inc.
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Hi Anton,
This SEOmoz post is still one of the best site migration guides I've seen: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/web-site-migration-guide-tips-for-seos
If you and your team go through that process, your site migration should be as painless as possible
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