Switching to our copy without losing positions

The same addresses, the same content#

The safest way to change platform is not to change the addresses. Then Google does not need to learn anything new about which page is which. When addresses do change, every old address should be redirected permanently (301) to its new one, according to Google's advice on moving [1].

The check before the switch#

Before your domain is pointed to us, we compare every address in the original with the copy: status code, redirects, title, description, canonical address, robots rules, main heading, language versions, structured data and body text. If we find an address that is missing or a redirect that has been lost, the switch is stopped until it is fixed.

The only thing that may differ is what we have added where something was missing (title, description, an H1 around the same text, structured data). Every such change is reported in the report.

How long does a move take for Google?#

According to the times Google has reported, a move with changed addresses usually takes 1-3 months and sometimes over a year [2]. If we only change the platform and keep the addresses, it is not a move in Google's sense, and that is why we keep them.

Move your website here#

Do you want to move your current website from your web host to us, with the same look and addresses and with the optimisation built in? Read about the move and the prices compared with the web hosts. How titles and descriptions are corrected during the move is in Meta tags.