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How to move or relaunch a site without tanking your traffic

By Manish, SEO & GEO Lead at DigiVino · Updated June 27, 2026 · 3 min read

A redesign or platform move is the most common way businesses accidentally destroy their search traffic. With a few safeguards, you keep every hard-won ranking.

The non-negotiables

Map every old URL to its new one with 301 redirects. Preserve titles, headings, and content on key pages. Keep your schema. Submit a fresh sitemap. And monitor closely for the first weeks to catch anything that slipped.

Why it goes wrong

Usually a forgotten redirect, dropped content, or a launch nobody monitored. Each quietly tells search engines a valuable page vanished. A careful plan — like the ones we run for redesigns — prevents it.

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Editorial. DigiVino, June 2026.

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