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SEO Website Migration Services

Conducting a website migration can be a daunting time for a business. Adopting a new platform and completely refreshing a brand can be necessary, but there are many steps that can be missed that can kill your search engine rankings and organic traffic. That's where our website migration experts come in.

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What is an SEO migration? Why is it important?

An SEO migration involves transferring your Google search rankings and web authority—key drivers of your site’s visibility and organic traffic—when you switch web hosts.

You and your team have worked hard to get to where you are in organic search, and there's nothing worse than losing hard-earned ground when you migrate. StudioHawk will make sure all the SEO bells and whistles go with you.

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Deal directly with SEO experts, no account managers here

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We've worked on dozens of SEO migrations

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We have a proven track record of successful migrations

LET'S MIGRATE YOUR SITE

GAIN EVEN MORE TRAFFIC THROUGH SEO

Why Trust Us With Your SEO Migration?

Choosing the right SEO agency to support your website migration is a big decision and it's hard to tell whether you're getting the real deal. Our team has decades' worth of combined experience in this particular field, so you'll be in safe hands.

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Deal Directly With Experts

At StudioHawk, we don't do account managers. This means you'll be dealing directly with the SEO experts and strategists behind the migration plan, ensuring a efficient and well-informed project.

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Comfortable With Any CMS

Our experience and technical knowledge means we are able to assist you on your migration project whether you're working with a traditional CMS like WordPress, WebFlow or Shopify, or more advanced headless browsers such as React.

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Post-SEO Migration Monitoring

The work doesn't stop after the migration! Our SEO experts will continue to monitor traffic, rankings and crawl errors closely. We'll use SEO tools to catch issues early and ensure a smooth transition without a loss of organic visibility.

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Proven Track Record

We have a proven track record of consistent success with SEO migrations. We've worked on a range of successful projects, from simple CMS migrations and site redesigns, all the way up to international domain migrations.

OUR WEBSITE MIGRATION STRATEGY

Our Tried-and-Tested Website Migration Roadmap

We apply all the best technical SEO & migration practices to produce a roadmap which will walk you through what can be a surprisingly tricky process. This ensures that all goes smoothly and you can rest easy.

4 Steps to a successful SEO Migration with StudioHawk

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Step 1: You Get in Touch

If you have a website migration looming, get in touch. It doesn’t matter how much you know about SEO or digital marketing, we can help you at any stage of business development.

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Step 2: We Do a Risk Assessment

We'll want to do an audit of your existing website, as well as anything else you are developing on the new site, to benchmark data, and identify potholes & actions early.

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Step 3: Action Plan Agreed

We don't just give you a print out and leave it there. We'll then meet up again and discuss everything with all key stakeholders, and integrating points of view to develop a robust migration roadmap.

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Step 4: Migration Strategy Implementation

After using any analytical data available to establish the key potholes to avoid and best practices to implement, we’ll get started on the migration strategy that will ensure all runs smoothly.

SEO MIGRATION CLIENT STORY

Recovering lost keywords with Oppidan

Oppidan Education, a mentoring program specialising in helping kids study for entrance exams for schools as well as university, came to us in April 2023 to help them recover from a poorly handled website migration.

440%

increase in top 10 keyword rankings over the course of the campaign.

244%

increase in keywords ranking in top 100

550%

increase in search engine ranking page features

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558%

increase in clicks through to collection pages

increase in clicks through to product pages

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83%

year-over-year increase in 1st page keyword rankings

increase in organic revenue between July 2023 and July 2024.

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303%

year-over-year increase in organic sessions

year-over-year increase in #1-3 UK keyword rankings

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367%

year-over-year increase in global organic users

increase in first page rankings in the UK after 6 months.

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202%

year-over-year increase in position #1-3 keyword rankings in less than a year

increase in position #1-3 keyword rankings in less than a year.

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174%

ranking for 'plaster coving' in the UK

increase in organic traffic over the first 6 months.

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440%

increase in keywords ranking in top 100

increase in top 10 keyword rankings over the course of the campaign.

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78%

rankings for big keywords like 'ear wax removal Old Street'

year-over-year increase in earwax removal bookings.

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60%

positions for 'Modus Fireplace' in the UK

year-over-year increase in enquiries

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Technical SEO

Is your current SEO holding you back? Let’s find the bottlenecks and create a strategy to get your SEO back on track. A technical SEO audit can shed some light on how to move forward.

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SEO Content Writing

Driving targeted traffic to your website, establishing trust and building authority in your industry with expertly written SEO content. Content is the cornerstone of your Google rankings, which is why our SEO Copywriting is a critical part of the process.

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Digital PR

Want influencers, bloggers, vloggers and journalists to talk about your brand and link to your website? With our carefully executed digital digital PR campaigns, you’ll build brand awareness and inbound links that boost your Google rankings.

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Local SEO

If you sell locally, we’ll help you become the leader of the local pack with our targeted local SEO strategies that help you expand your local reach.

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Link Building & Acquisition

Our link-building campaigns build high-quality backlinks to your store, which helps improve your Google rankings.

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eCommerce SEO

Competition for shopping-related keywords is rife, so it pays to have specialists in your back pocket. At StudioHawk, you’re in good hands — our eCommerce SEO specialists have mastered what works when it comes to eCommerce SEO.

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Small Business SEO

Being a small business is an exciting thing. It can be fast-moving and competitive with different challenges day-to-day. You need a small business SEO strategy geared to your goals, and caters to your budget and your niche.

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Website Migrations

Are you shifting your website domain or CMS? Afraid that all the time and effort invested in ranking with Google will drop away with a new website? StudioHawk is here to save the day with our experience SEO website migration specialists.

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International SEO

A good SEO strategy has you identifying target audiences and their nuances, relating to their cultures and speaking their language. And by that, we mean more than a Google translation of your website. Start reaching a global audience with international SEO expertise at StudioHawk.

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Generative AI SEO

Looking to stand out in a world powered by generative AI? Discover how our unique approach to AI-driven SEO can amplify your online presence. StudioHawk can leverage cutting-edge AI strategies to help you rank, connect, and scale faster than ever.

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What our clients are saying.

Oppidan Education worked with Sophie and the StudioHawk team on a campaign to recover lost ranking after a website migration. They put a comprehensive plan into place with monthly actionable steps, leading to a full SEO recovery and beyond. We've been delighted with their work and thoroughly recommend the team.

Ben Stevens

Oppidan Education

We've been working with StudioHawk for the last few years and have seen strong SEO growth during this time. We've recently rebranded, which included changing our website domain name. StudioHawk carefully guided us through the process and as a result there's been minimal downside in terms of new customers/sales - a really big win! Would thoroughly recommend.

Siobhan North

Frive (formerly Lion's Prep)

We have worked with StudioHawk for over 2 years. In that time they have helped us with all things SEO whilst we launched our new ecom website, advising on site improvements and general website strategy. Highly recommended!

Dan Franklin

TouchNote

It's been an absolute pleasure working with StudioHawk. Lorcan and the team have been very thorough in everything that they do and are experts in their field. It has been a very simple process from the start, with an ongoing plan which is regularly delivered against. Our results have been fantastic and we are still only getting started.

Michael Harris

REFY Beauty

We've been working with Studio Hawk for a couple of years now, they've helped us see huge growth through our organic search channels and have been extremely supportive through launches, campaigns and helping us improve our content across the website. A great agency to work with - highly recommend.

Emma Gee

GRIND

Sometimes your website won’t allow you to perform certain actions. Your CMS might be slow and outdated, and possibly insecure. Your business may have evolved and grown, and so you need a more complex website capable of handling more products and services and, more importantly, more traffic.

How large is your website? Is it a small business with a handful of product pages and some blog posts? We can do any size.

Are you an enterprise-level business with a website that has thousands of products, internal links and a host of backlinks? We can help you migrate too.

StudioHawk has successfully helped businesses of all sizes with an SEO Migration.

The simple answer is – you lose your SEO and organic rankings. Your current SEO success is based on all of your site structure, authority, content and metadata. You can’t just take some and leave the rest. It will hurt your ranking.

StudioHawk does a backlink audit first, to clean up any broken or toxic backlinks. Then we implement backlink redirects to your new domain. This keeps the Page Authority gained from any potential lost backlinks and helps mitigate potential lost authority.

In a word – very important. They are permanent redirects that pass full page rank equity to the redirected page. 301 redirects are a fundamental process for any migration.

SEO migration is not an exact science. It can be quite volatile. We can plan and prepare as much as we can, but there can always be some loss of SEO. However, by keeping with StudioHawk we can campaign to regain any SEO losses and help mitigate any volatility.

How long is a piece of string? While uploading the redirects can be done pretty much right away, if you have a complicated website, with many pages it can take weeks or even months to map out and plan for a migration.

We would say the 301 redirects are the most important part of your SEO migration. You want that page authority to be kept from your old site and that’s what a 301 redirect can give you.

This depends on how big your site is and how much help you require to get the SEO site migration done right.

A simple, small business website with only ten pages would take less time and money to migrate, compared to a large business with over a thousand web pages, internal links, backlinks and a swathe of metadata and content to migrate.

StudioHawk has successfully helped HEAPS of businesses migrate their websites. We’ve created our own comprehensive checklist so we don’t miss anything, not the smallest detail.

We will walk you through the process and be there to help if things get a little rocky.

We are very good at what we do, and we’d like to help you too.

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In-depth SEO Audit

Uncover weaknesses and opportunities to overtake the competition and gain market share

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Expert traffic analysis

Discover quick wins to boost  your visibility for your most valuable search terms

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Custom SEO roadmap

Get clarity and confidence with an SEO strategy aligned with your goals, industry, and unique challenges

Client success:

440%

increase in top 10 keyword rankings over the course of the campaign.

"Oppidan Education, a mentoring program specialising in helping kids study for entrance exams for schools as well as university, came to us in April 2023 to help them recover from a poorly handled website migration."