One of the most important aspects of a WordPress website migration is ensuring that all of the SEO work you’ve implemented on your existing website is successfully transferred to your new one. A properly executed SEO migration helps preserve your search engine rankings and overall organic search performance. On the other hand, a poorly planned and executed migration can lead to broken links, missing keywords in SEO titles and website content, slower page speeds, and a decline in search visibility.
Here are some practical WordPress migration tips to help you move your website while keeping your SEO performance intact.
1. Identify all the existing webpages on the current website
Before migrating your website, create a complete list of all the web pages on your current site and store them in a spreadsheet. This will help you set up redirects during the migration process, which we’ll discuss in a later section.
There are two simple ways to identify all the pages on your website.
The first method is to use Screaming Frog, a popular SEO crawling tool. Simply enter your domain name, and Screaming Frog will crawl your website and generate a list of all your URLs. The free version allows
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