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Migration Strategy & Analysis
Sam Partland
Sam Partland
Who am I?
• 11 years digital marketing experience
• Lead generation, affiliate marketing, and e-commerce projects for various
niches
• Covered all aspects of digital marketing for small businesses
• Worked agency side and currently in-house SEO at realestate.com.au
Sam Partland
Migrating a website
???
Sam Partland
1. What content does the site
currently have?

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2. What content will the new
website have?
Sam Partland
3. Are there content gaps to
accommodate for?
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What content does the site currently have?
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• Remove prefixes so you are just
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• VLOOKUP / match from old to
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the difference
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Rankings are the first sign of migration performance
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The document provides an SEO audit of Shepherd Neame's website with recommendations for improvement. It finds that the site has lost visibility for local pub keywords due to Google's algorithm changes. An audit of the site found discrepancies in the number of indexed pages compared to pages found by crawling tools. Issues identified include duplicate page titles and meta descriptions from search result pages, as well as 178 blog listing pages with identical content. Recommendations are given around improving the XML sitemap, addressing duplicate content, optimizing page speed, and fixing broken page references.

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This document contains slides from a presentation on search engine optimization (SEO). The presentation covers the major topics of how search engines work, building accessible websites, conducting keyword research, link building strategies, and social media. It discusses key algorithmic factors for rankings like PageRank and link analysis tools. The goal is to help attendees understand the major engines and how to build successful websites through SEO best practices.

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This slide presentation covers search engine optimization (SEO) and how to build successful websites. It discusses the major search engines and their algorithms, how to make websites search engine friendly, conducting keyword research, link building strategies, and how social media influences the web. The presentation focuses on how search engines work, building accessible websites, conducting keyword research, and link building strategies. It provides information on crawling, indexing, PageRank, and other algorithmic factors that impact search engine rankings.

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Website Migration SEO: Advanced Migration Strategy & Analysis

  • 1. Sam Partland Migration Strategy & Analysis Sam Partland
  • 2. Sam Partland Who am I? • 11 years digital marketing experience • Lead generation, affiliate marketing, and e-commerce projects for various niches • Covered all aspects of digital marketing for small businesses • Worked agency side and currently in-house SEO at realestate.com.au
  • 4. Sam Partland 1. What content does the site currently have?
  • 5. Sam Partland 2. What content will the new website have?
  • 6. Sam Partland 3. Are there content gaps to accommodate for?
  • 8. Sam Partland What content does the site currently have? • Scans everything that is linked to or in a sitemap • URL rules can help limit scanning to sections • Can scan staging behind a password • Can export the data into Excel
  • 9. Sam Partland Grab as much ranking data as possible • Analyse keywords that cover a wide set of URLs • Don’t get cheap – the more data the better • Export Google webmaster tools keyword & page URL data too • Add the URLs to your screaming frog scan & dedupe
  • 10. Sam Partland Work out the difference between the old & new content • Remove prefixes so you are just left with a unique identifier • VLOOKUP / match from old to new (and vice versa) to find out the difference Old New
  • 11. Sam Partland Make sure your new XML sitemaps are ready to go Maintain the old URLs in a separate sitemap for faster indexing of redirects
  • 12. Sam Partland Know any issues that the new site has as these will affect performance
  • 13. Sam Partland Is it worth running campaigns or increasing budget for SEM?
  • 15. Sam Partland If only the domain / prefix is changing, just wildcard it! Olddomain.com/awesome-content/ Newdomain.com/awesome-content/ Domain.com/old/awesome-content/ Domain.com/new/awesome-content/
  • 17. Sam Partland But it’s rarely that easy
  • 18. Sam Partland Three levels of redirects should be investigated Olddomain.com/awesome-content/ Newdomain.com/awesome-content/ Domain.com/old/awesome-content/ Domain.com/new/awesome-content/ 1. Wildcard Olddomain.com/awesome-content/ Newdomain.com/amazing-article/ Domain.com/old/awesome-content/ Domain.com/new/amazing-article/ 2. 1-to-1 Content URL Olddomain.com/awesome-content/ Newdomain.com/closest-category/ Domain.com/old/awesome-content/ Domain.com/new/closest-category/ 3. 1-to-1 Category URL Only catch-all if you can redirect somewhere related
  • 19. Sam Partland Let the developer implement these where possible
  • 20. Sam Partland And test them all on a staging site where possible
  • 21. Sam Partland What content does the site currently have?
  • 22. Sam Partland Issues that you might face • HTTP vs HTTPs • Trailing slash vs no trailing slash • Miss-spellings in the rules – It does happen! • Redirects being turned off
  • 24. Sam Partland Fetch as Google and submit your sitemaps
  • 25. Sam Partland If you changed your domain, submit a ‘change of address’
  • 26. Sam Partland What content does the site currently have? • Scan the new site to make sure everything's okay • Scan all previous URLs to confirm redirects
  • 32. Sam Partland Rankings are the first sign of migration performance Category Searches Apr-16 Jun-16 N/A 3,520,120 42.1 41.8 Category 1 401,600 26.3 25.0 Category 2 236,150 16.8 17.4 Category 3 158,410 3.2 2.2 Category 4 107,880 21.4 22.1 Category 5 81,530 16.8 17.9 Category 6 62,700 9.0 9.6 Category 7 49,520 8.9 9.2 Category 8 12,130 12.0 12.3 Category 9 9,310 5.2 5.5 Category 10 4,440 6.4 4.8 Grand Total 4,643,790 27.7 27.6 Average Rankings Category Searches Apr-16 Jun-16 N/A 3,520,120 7,829 3,855 Category 1 401,600 10,913 9,432 Category 2 236,150 7,062 6,031 Category 3 158,410 63,087 62,837 Category 4 107,880 10,332 8,964 Category 5 81,530 6,688 5,256 Category 6 62,700 17,093 13,648 Category 7 49,520 7,285 6,776 Category 8 12,130 716 671 Category 9 9,310 2,636 2,630 Category 10 4,440 1,684 1,624 Grand Total 4,643,790 135,326 121,725 Estimated Traffic
  • 33. Sam Partland Website organic search traffic would soon follow • Strip back to a unique identifier • Analyse at URL level or categorise and view at category level
  • 34. Sam Partland With GWT / search console being the next analysis point Clicks Impressions Av. Rank Category Old New Category Old New Category Old New Category 1 16,085 14,220 Category 1 42,378 39,997 Category 1 1.94 2.52 Category 2 2,160 1,746 Category 2 17,945 15,082 Category 2 2.42 2.95 Category 3 1,661 1,428 Category 3 9,781 9,283 Category 3 1.49 1.79 Category 4 1,591 1,150 Category 4 7,481 6,773 Category 4 1.23 1.22 Category 5 1,238 843 Category 5 7,063 5,539 Category 5 1.43 1.85 Category 6 776 545 Category 6 6,947 6,187 Category 6 1.61 1.83 Category 7 643 412 Category 7 6,644 4,696 Category 7 2.41 3.56 Category 8 328 313 Category 8 2,710 1,503 Category 8 4.85 6.07 Category 9 271 264 Category 9 1,381 1,737 Category 9 1.48 1.87 Category 10 260 158 Category 10 1,115 1,519 Category 10 3.51 5.61 N/A 87 52 N/A 454 385 N/A 1.15 1.38 Grand Total 25,100 21,131 Grand Total 103,899 92,701 Grand Total 1.94 2.21
  • 37. Sam Partland Download historic & recent ranking • Export as much data as possible • Sort / filter the data to avoid your account limit a bit
  • 38. Sam Partland Because SEMrush has multiple positions, only keep the best rank of each • Sort by keyword, then by ranking (low to high) • Remove dupes from keyword column
  • 39. Sam Partland Merge into a single file, with a VLOOKUP Keyword Search Volume Apr-16 Apr-16 Est. Traffic Jun-16 Jun-16 Est. Traffic Category Original URL New URL keyword 1 50000 32 0 35 0 Category 1 https://domain.com/url-1 https://domain.com/new-url-1 keyword 2 21000 31 0 35 0 Category 2 https://domain.com/url-2 https://domain.com/url-2 keyword 3 11000 32 0 33 0 Category 3 https://domain.com/url-3 https://domain.com/url-3 keyword 4 7000 5 3326.92801 5 3426.92801 Category 4 https://domain.com/url-4 https://domain.com/new-url-4 keyword 5 7000 31 0 31 0 Category 5 https://domain.com/url-5 https://domain.com/url-5 keyword 6 7000 84 0 84 0 Category 6 https://domain.com/url-6 https://domain.com/url-6 keyword 7 6500 22 0 65 0 Category 7 https://domain.com/url-7 https://domain.com/url-7 keyword 8 6500 25 0 25 0 Category 8 https://domain.com/url-8 https://domain.com/new-url-8 keyword 9 4500 36 0 67 0 Category 9 https://domain.com/url-9 https://domain.com/url-9 keyword 10 4500 15 121.5 63 0 Category 10 https://domain.com/url-10 https://domain.com/url-10 And then….
  • 40. Sam Partland What content does the site currently have?
  • 41. Sam Partland Run original URLs through screaming frog to get status codes Keyword Search Volume Apr-16 Apr-16 Est. Traffic Jun-16 Jun-16 Est. Traffic Category Original URL New URL keyword 1 50000 32 0 35 0 Category 1 https://domain.com/url-1 https://domain.com/new-url-1 keyword 2 21000 31 0 35 0 Category 2 https://domain.com/url-2 https://domain.com/url-2 keyword 3 11000 32 0 33 0 Category 3 https://domain.com/url-3 https://domain.com/url-3 keyword 4 7000 5 3326.92801 5 3426.92801 Category 4 https://domain.com/url-4 https://domain.com/new-url-4 keyword 5 7000 31 0 31 0 Category 5 https://domain.com/url-5 https://domain.com/url-5 keyword 6 7000 84 0 84 0 Category 6 https://domain.com/url-6 https://domain.com/url-6 keyword 7 6500 22 0 65 0 Category 7 https://domain.com/url-7 https://domain.com/url-7 keyword 8 6500 25 0 25 0 Category 8 https://domain.com/url-8 https://domain.com/new-url-8 keyword 9 4500 36 0 67 0 Category 9 https://domain.com/url-9 https://domain.com/url-9 keyword 10 4500 15 121.5 63 0 Category 10 https://domain.com/url-10 https://domain.com/url-10 • Confirm if the redirected-to URL, is the current ranking URL • Let you see if you missed anything
  • 42. Sam Partland Filter by original URL status code to see the impact of the migration Untouched | Redirected | Errored -4,000 (4%) | -5,500 (30%) | -4,000 (55%)
  • 44. Sam Partland Remove category-base / prefixes with SUBSTITUTE More effective than Find / Replace because you also retain original data Original text Text to change Change to (blank)
  • 45. Sam Partland Modify category-bases with categorisation formula Substitute old with new Categorise with ‘find’ Categorise with ‘category’
  • 46. Sam Partland Wordpress plugin to manage redirects & 404s https://wordpress.org/plugins/redirection/
  • 47. Sam Partland ‘Guess’ a new URL by Scraping a blog posts category in Google Docs http://zoomspring.com/learn-importxml-tutorial/ Makes Horizontal URL (cell reference) What you’re searching inside What you want to extract https://moz.com/blog/301-redirection-rules-for-seo We could now ‘guess’ a new URL could be http://moz.com/blog/technical-seo/301-redirection-rules-for-seo
  • 48. Sam Partland So to complete a successful migration you would…. • Prepare with as much data as possible • Compare old and new content and work out the differences • Investigate 3 levels of redirects – Wildcards, 1-to-1 content, and 1-to-1 category • Analyse before & after rankings along with their URLs And…
  • 49. Sam Partland What content does the site currently have?
  • 50. Sam Partland And just quickly…
  • 51. Sam Partland A new SEO tool to change the way we interpret our data
  • 52. Sam Partland Currently keyword & search volume management
  • 53. Sam Partland With categorisation of them faster & easier
  • 54. Sam Partland And so much more planned! • Assisted bulk keyword research & generation • Rank tracking of full SERPs • Search market & competitor analysis • Search Console / Google Analytics integration • And that’s just the start…