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Migrating your website is a smart move — whether you’re redesigning, changing domains, switching platforms, or restructuring content, it’s all about improving performance and user experience. But without the right SEO strategy, even the best migrations can lead to lost traffic, broken rankings, and technical setbacks.At The DS Solution, we specialise in SEO-focused website migrations that safeguard your hard-earned visibility. From pre-migration planning to post-launch audits, we manage every step with precision, ensuring your search performance stays strong — and even improves — as you transition to your new digital homeMake your next move confidently, knowing your SEO is in expert hand
At The DS Solution we’ve put together an exhaustive process of audits and recommendations to ensure that your new site is something to celebrate and not regret. With years of experience providing website migration services, our deliverables are thorough and comprise every step of the migration process.
Your existing rankings are a function of many factors relating to the pages on your site - their content, structure, metadata, position in the overall hierarchy and internal linking strategy. Often when you build a new site, pages are left behind, either deliberately or accidentally, or restructured in such a way that is not beneficial for SEO. Our content risk audits ensure that your most important content carries over to your new site optimally.
A new site is an opportunity to fix all those technical issues that have dogged your old site for some time. The DS Solution’s thorough audit processes ensure that your new site meets all our best practice recommendations. From site crawling to folder structure, internal links to error handling, we’ll provide a detailed list of issues to your developers based on staging site analysis and iterate until resolved.
The reason to undergo a migration project is to protect the SEO value of your site, and once pages no longer exist on their old URLs, you need a way to share with search engines where to find your content. By identifying the most relevant new URL for each original URL and providing this list, we eliminate dead ends for users and search engines, and maximise the chance that a new page will continue to rank for valuable keywords.
When rebuilding your website, an improved structure can be a major advantage. A rebuild offers the opportunity to help search engines better understand your site’s content by clearly reflecting the hierarchy of your topics. Conducting a thorough Information Architecture (IA) and taxonomy review allows us at The DS Solution to identify areas for improvement — whether that’s rebuilding navigation, consolidating redundant content, or reorganising webpages — all aimed at boosting your SEO performance.
There’s nothing worse than nearing the end of your rebuild only to realise that the front-end technology used limits how search engines can access your content - we’ve seen it happen. To prevent issues such as this, we’ve written our own proprietary handbook to help developers to code with SEO in mind, and will provide this at the start of your rebuild project. We’ll continue to work with your dev team as needed to advise on template design, secondary navigation, and anything else that will support your SEO.
Despite your best efforts, it’s not impossible for site rankings to dip after a migration, and performance has to be monitored closely to ensure this is a short term effect and not the start of a long dip. As part of our SEO migration services, we’ll benchmark indexed content, keyword and page performance, site speed and more, and review regularly post migration. Our process means we identify any causes for concern early and take any remedial action that is required.
The DS Solution brings deep technical expertise and a proven track record in managing seamless website migrations. We understand the complexities involved — from preserving search equity to ensuring flawless redirects and maintaining site performance. Our strategic, detail-oriented approach is designed to minimise disruption, protect your rankings, and unlock the full potential of your new website from day one. With Cretu, your migration is not just safe — it’s a step forward.
Speak to one of our Senior Consultants to clarify your SEO migration objectives.
Our team of SEO specialists will propose a timeline of work based on the scope of engagement, and perform a series of deliverables both pre-launch and post-launch.
Any downturn in rankings is likely to be small and short-lived, as your careful preparation has set you up for ongoing SEO success.
Over the 2+ years we’ve been operating as an SEO agency, The DSSolutions has developed a hyper-focused approach to delivering SEO services in Australia. This approach enables us to concentrate on the many facets that make up ‘good SEO’ while tailoring strategies to fit each business’s unique market landscape.
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