Services · Website Migrations

Website Migrations & Strategy.

A rebuild or replatform is one of the fastest ways to lose the AI and search visibility you've already earned. We lead the strategy so it doesn't, and so the new site wins more of it from day one.

What it is

The foundation everything else builds on.

Every citation, ranking and entity signal a brand builds sits on top of its website's structure. Rebuild that structure carelessly and you can reset years of AI and search visibility overnight. Do it deliberately instead, and GEO, AEO and SEO have something solid to compound on.

We've led strategy on client website builds and launches before wiring in the technical SEO and entity work that follows, rather than treating the website as a design exercise that happens separately from visibility. Redirect mapping, information architecture and schema get decided with AI and search retrieval in mind from the first wireframe. Patching them in afterwards is what breaks visibility.

What we do

Five things, run as one programme.

Migration planning and redirect mapping, so rankings and AI citations survive the move
Information architecture built for both buyer journeys and AI retrieval, beyond simple navigation
Technical SEO foundations: crawlability, indexation, schema and Core Web Vitals, wired in from launch
Content and URL audits to decide what moves, what gets rebuilt and what gets retired
Post-launch monitoring to catch and fix any visibility drop before it costs pipeline

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Why does a website migration put AI visibility at risk?

A rebuild changes URLs, page structure, internal linking and often entity signals, all things AI engines and search engines use to understand who you are and what to cite. Get the migration wrong and you can lose citations and rankings that took months to build, in a single launch.

Do you design and build the website yourselves?

We lead the strategy: information architecture, technical SEO requirements, redirect mapping and content decisions, and we work alongside your design and development team (or ours, where needed) to make sure what gets built protects and improves visibility rather than resetting it.

When should this happen relative to a GEO or AEO programme?

Ideally before, or in parallel. A site built with clean information architecture, proper schema and answer-first structure from day one gives GEO and AEO work something solid to build on, rather than technical debt to work around.

How much notice do you need before a migration?

As much as possible. We do our best work when we're brought in during planning, before redirect maps and information architecture decisions are locked. Coming in after the fact means damage control instead of prevention.

What happens if we've already migrated and lost visibility?

We audit what broke, missing redirects, flattened content, stripped schema, and rebuild the affected structure. Recovery takes longer than doing it right the first time, but most of what's lost can be won back.

Let's have a conversation, not a sales pitch.

Book a free 20-minute call. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help.