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What is a URL migration?

With a new website, pages may be given a different URL. It is essential to properly redirect these pages to maintain your ranking in Google. This process, better known as a URL migration, is crucial for a smooth transition and to avoid losing your online visibility.

Whether it's small, or extensive url migrations involving thousands of URLs, we have the experience and expertise to handle it efficiently and carefully. Therefore, our approach goes beyond a few simple redirects; we ensure a seamless transition that keeps both your visitors and search engines happy.

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The importance of careful URL migration

When you change the URL structure of your Web site, search engines cannot automatically associate the new pages with their existing search results. What to consider:

Maintain a good ranking

If search engines cannot find a proper 301 redirect, it can lead to the loss of valuable SEO rankings. In some cases, pages may even disappear completely from search results.

Prevent loss of organic traffic

An incorrect URL migration can cause existing visitors to be unable to find the new pages, or to encounter "404 error pages." This can lead to loss of organic traffic and visitor irritation.

Maintain link value

If 301 redirects are not set up correctly, you also lose the value of backlinks that pointed to the old URLs. These links contribute to the authority of your page, and without them, your website can lose authority.

The importance of a good 404 page

It is often thought that avoiding a situation where a visitor lands on a 404 page is always the best approach. Therefore, sometimes all old pages are redirected (redirect) to avoid this. But the question should be: is the visitor actually helped by the redirect? Does he find the same information on the new page as on the old link? Search engines also judge this this way.

For example, if you delete a news item, it is often better not to set up a redirect and land the visitor on a 404 page. After all, the content no longer exists, and a redirect can create false expectations because the original information is no longer available.

A well-designed 404 page is therefore essential to both the user experience and performance of your Web site. When a visitor lands on a non-existent page, it can be frustrating. That's why we create a 404 page with a clear message, convenient navigation options and a call-to-action to reduce that frustration.