UK · Migration SEO

28Checklist items (Shopify)

Website migration SEO
when ecommerce
traffic drops

In short

Replatforming without a redirect and indexation plan is why organic revenue craters.

LoudCrowd maps old money URLs to live pages across Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, and custom stacks, then fixes the highest-impact failures first.

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What we see

Why UK ecommerce stores search for this

Common problems on UK ecommerce stores targeting “website migration seo uk”.

  • Top products 404 after launch

    Old URLs not 301ing to the correct live product pages.

  • Both old and new URLs indexed

    Duplicate product signals splitting authority.

  • Organic revenue down after go-live

    Launch week looked fine. Rankings never recovered.

Root causes

What is actually going wrong

  • Incomplete redirect map

    Agency launched before every money URL was mapped.

  • Staging or preview indexed

    Temporary domains competing with production.

  • Metadata and schema reset

    Titles and structured data lost in the new theme.

LoudCrowd approach

How we fix it

Doncaster team · named owners · 90-day plan tied to orders

  1. 01

    Self-check first

    Use the Shopify migration checklist if you moved to Shopify, or book a call for other platforms.

  2. 02

    Indexed vs live audit

    Search Console and analytics compared to the new URL structure.

  3. 03

    Redirect and canonical fixes

    301 chains, duplicates, and template metadata repaired.

  4. 04

    Recovery reporting

    Impressions and orders tracked on priority URLs weekly.

Free first step

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PageSpeed scores and homepage on-page snapshot for Shopify, WooCommerce, and other store URLs.

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FAQ

Questions about website migration seo uk

Do you only recover Shopify migrations?

Shopify is our deepest migration content, including a free checklist. We also recover WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Magento, and custom ecommerce migrations with the same redirect and indexation method.

How soon after launch can you help?

Sooner is better, but we have recovered stores weeks post-launch when redirects and indexation were still wrong.

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