Ecommerce Replatforming / Migration
Platform migrations are risky. Tiny window for error, huge cost of getting it wrong. We've run enough of them to know how to take the pain away.
SEO Migration
Replatforming without an SEO migration plan is one of the most common and most expensive mistakes in ecommerce. URL structures change, redirects get missed, metadata disappears, internal links break, and Google notices before you do.
We handle the SEO dimension of your migration as a first-class workstream. That means crawling and cataloguing your current site before anything moves, mapping every URL to its destination, implementing and validating redirects, preserving metadata and structured data, and monitoring rankings closely in the weeks after launch.
This is for you if:
- You’re replatforming and SEO is an afterthought in the project plan — which means it’s already a risk
- You’ve migrated before and took a traffic hit that took months to recover from
- Your development team is strong but SEO is not their native language
What you’ll get from this:
- A pre-migration crawl and full URL inventory of your current site
- A redirect map covering every URL with a clear destination and validation protocol
- Metadata migration ensuring title tags, descriptions, and structured data survive the move
- Post-launch monitoring with weekly ranking and traffic reports for the first 90 days
Frequently Asked Questions
Devs handle redirects technically. SEO migration handles them strategically: which URLs deserve a redirect at all, where each one points (not “homepage for everything”), what edge cases exist (faceted URLs, paginated archives, soft 404s), and what to do with metadata, schema, and canonical signals during the cutover. The two roles overlap less than people assume.
Often, yes. The first 30 days post-launch are the recovery window: missing redirects, broken canonicals, and dropped schema can be corrected before Google fully re-indexes against the new state. Beyond that, recovery is slower and case-by-case. Read Seven Immutable Laws of Ecommerce Replatforming for what we’ve learned across migrations.
SEO migration is one workstream inside eCommerce Replatforming & Migration. If we run the full replatforming, SEO is integrated from day one. If you have a different agency on the build, we can run SEO migration as a standalone workstream, in parallel.
A live dashboard with the queries we baselined pre-launch, position changes day-by-day, traffic against that baseline, and a triage list ranked by lost-traffic-impact. We meet weekly the first 4 weeks and biweekly weeks 5 – 12. The point is to catch regressions while they’re still cheap to fix.
Mostly BigCommerce, Shopify, and Magento (Adobe Commerce), in both directions and across all combinations, plus platforms like Prestashop and Squarespace on the way out. Public examples: EGO Magento → BigCommerce, IGT Prestashop → BigCommerce, and Shimoda Squarespace → BigCommerce. Whatever the pair, the process is the same: URL inventory, redirect map, metadata migration, and weekly ranking reports for the first 90 days after launch.
Before picking the platform is better, because the SEO implications of that choice often shift the decision itself. URL structure flexibility, server-side rendering, schema control, and sitemap behavior vary widely between platforms, and each one constrains what the migration can preserve. We’d rather catch a structural blocker during Platform Selection & Evaluation than fight it post-launch.
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