Website Migration Checklist Generator

Shape a practical checklist around your migration type, site size, access, redirects, and staging setup.

Migration typeSite sizeRedirects are neededA staging site existsAnalytics and GSC access is ready

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Pre-migration

Crawl and export the current site

Benchmark organic traffic, rankings, and indexed pages

Document priority pages and conversion paths

Freeze non-essential site changes before launch

Map every changed URL to its closest relevant destination

Avoid redirect chains and blanket redirects to the homepage

Test the redirect map before launch

Compare robots.txt and meta robots directives

Validate canonicals, hreflang, schema, and XML sitemaps

Check status codes and internal links

Confirm page speed and mobile rendering

Protect high-performing copy, metadata, and headings

Check images, alt text, downloadable assets, and pagination

Review navigation and breadcrumbs

Test analytics, consent, tags, and key conversions

Verify Search Console properties and settings

Annotate the launch date in reporting

Remove staging blocks and deployment noindex directives

Run a focused crawl of priority templates

Submit XML sitemaps and inspect priority URLs

Check server errors and critical user journeys

Monitor priority URLs, redirects, indexation, and server errors

Compare traffic and rankings with benchmarks

Fix redirect chains, soft 404s, and canonical drift

Log migration work, owners, decisions, and issues

Share launch status and unresolved risks

Report impact after 7, 14, and 30 days

One check is a snapshot

SEO Logbook keeps the URL history, work notes, detected changes, and follow-up tasks together.

Use SEO Logbook to log this work, assign follow-up tasks, monitor priority URLs, and turn it into proof-of-work reports.

SEO work, recorded and easier to explain.