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Free Website Migration SEO Checklist

Answer a few questions and SEOGOD creates a practical pre-launch and post-launch SEO checklist.

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  1. Export current top landing pages from Search Console and analytics.
  2. Crawl the current site and save URLs, titles, canonicals, status codes, and internal links.
  3. Freeze URL structure decisions before content migration starts.
  4. Create a redirect map for every ranking or linked URL.
  5. Prepare new XML sitemap with only canonical indexable URLs.
  6. Check robots.txt, noindex tags, canonicals, and analytics before launch.
  7. Run a post-launch crawl and verify top redirects, canonical tags, and sitemap submission.
  8. Verify template-level metadata, schema, headings, breadcrumbs, and redirect behavior in the new CMS.
Why this exists

Useful first. Upgrade second.

Every free SEOGOD utility must give a business owner a useful answer without forcing them into a technical dashboard. The full product exists for the next step: monitoring, patching, proof, and ranking work across the selected project.

Can a migration hurt SEO?

Yes. Bad redirects, missing pages, broken canonicals, blocked crawling, and lost tracking can damage performance quickly.

When should SEO be involved?

Before the redesign begins, not after launch.

What should be checked first after launch?

Redirects, robots.txt, canonicals, sitemap, analytics, Search Console, top pages, and crawl errors.