Businesses often outgrow website builders and move to WordPress for flexibility. The move needs care to keep rankings.
Plan
- List all pages and their URLs.
- Export blog posts if the builder allows; otherwise copy manually.
- Download all images.
- Note titles, descriptions and important settings.
Build
- Set up WordPress on good hosting.
- Recreate pages with a theme or builder.
- Keep the same URLs where possible; if not, plan redirects.
- Use clean slugs; create them with our URL slug generator.
Redirects
Map every old URL to its new URL with 301 redirects; create rules with our redirect generator.
Switch
- Point the domain to the new hosting.
- Check that the domain connection with the old builder is removed.
- Test forms, tracking and pages.
- Submit the new sitemap in Search Console.
Domain registered with the builder?
You may need to transfer the domain or update its DNS. Read DNS explained.
See our website migration service.
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