In Episode #146, Eric and Neil teach us how to migrate a website. Whether it’s for a redesign, server improvement, new services offered, or overall better customer experience—at some point, you’ll need to migrate your website to a new one. Tune in as Neil and Eric walk us through the steps of website migration and as they offer us valuable tips to make this process stress-free and easy.

Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 00:27 – Today’s topic: How to Do a Website Migration
• 00:33 – Why migrate a website?
• 01:02 – You’re usually migrating servers as well
• 01:34 – Make sure you have a backup of your website
• 01:51 – Duplicate your site to the new server
• 02:04 – Have everyone check both sites
• 02:25 – Use a tool like Screaming Frog to crawl your website and see what’s happening on the old site
• 02:51 – Redirect the top pages to the most relevant pages
• 03:52 – Be careful when redesigning your website as you migrate your website
• 04:29 – Neil mentions a story from Eric’s website migration
• 04:58 – Have the right structures in place
• 05:28 – Neil tells his share of website migration errors
• 06:29 – That’s it for today’s episode!

3 Key Points:

1. Before making any changes, decide if website migration is the right thing to do.
2. Creating a backup or having website duplicates should be your FIRST step before migrating.
3. Remember to test everything first before redirecting people to your new website.

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