Move your website without losing Google.
Type your address. We list every address your sitemap gives Google, ask each one how it answers today, and show which of them your new website needs to redirect. It takes about a minute.
Your website’s addresses
Google ranks addresses, not websites.
Every result Google shows is one page at one address. Move a page to a new address without a word, and Google sees a page that’s gone and a new one that starts from zero.
Keep the address
The best move keeps each page at the address it has today. Nothing changes for Google, or for anyone who saved a link.
Or lead it on
Where an address has to change, a permanent redirect (a 301) takes people and Google from the old address to the new one, and the page keeps what it has earned.
Then ask every one
Once the new website is live, open every old address once. One that says “not found” loses its visitors, and its place in Google with them.
Everything a move can trip over.
We read your website the way Google does: its sitemaps first, then each address on its own. Each part of the result says what we found and what to do about it.
Every address
Every page, post and list your sitemaps name, and the sections your website has of its own. No sitemap? Then the links on your home page.
How each answers
Whether it opens, leads somewhere else, or says “not found”, asked one address at a time, as Google asks.
What will change
Endings like .html or .php, capital letters and page numbers like ?id=12, which a WordPress website writes differently.
Your other doors
Whether http:// and your name with or without www lead to your website, or show a second copy of it.
Your languages
Each language’s own folder, so that every language keeps its addresses on the new website.
The lists to hand over
Every address, and the redirects to set up, as files that whoever builds your new website can use.
Questions about moving.
Yes. No email, no card and no account. If you like, we’ll also show you a free new version of your website, made from your own words and photos.
Only for an hour, with the addresses we found, so your page can show them. Then they’re deleted.
A note at an old address that says “this page is now over here”. Browsers and Google follow it by themselves, and a permanent one (a 301) takes the page’s place in Google with it.
No, and it’s best not to. A new website can usually keep every address it has today. Only the ones it can’t keep need a redirect.
Then we list the links on your home page, which is a start but may not be every page. Ask whoever looks after your website to add a sitemap, or we’ll make one when we build your new website.
Google can take a few weeks to settle after any move. When every old address leads to its new page, what your pages have earned can move with them. Our guide says how, step by step.
No. We only read your sitemaps and ask each address once, as any visitor could. Nothing on your website is changed.