MIGRATE TO A MODERN WEBSITE WITHOUT DOWNTIME
For more than 10 years, we have been helping enterprises succeed in redesigning their large and complex websites. Thanks to our website development expertise, we enable clients to lessen the common and often disastrous risks of content migration. Our services cover the full cycle of website redesign to help you:
- Create a new, modern and responsive design
- Attract mobile visitors to the website
- Improve content personalization to increase visitor engagement
- Create new functionality that would support your current business needs
- Gather multiple websites under one roof with the help of a single CMS
- Fix user interface bugs and low performance issues
KEEPING YOUR SEO EQUITY
Did you know that a website redesign may result in a 60-70% drop in organic search traffic? This often happens because of URL changes, which lead inevitably to a decline in page ranks. Once you lose the total website presence in search engines, re-establishing your position can take months if not years (if the website is suspended by Google, for example).
Together with your stakeholders, our team will create and implement a SEO migration strategy to keep your website’s authority. The key steps here are:
- Crawling your website to picture the structure and get the list of all URLs
- Preserving inbound links, which are highly valued by search engines
- Setting up 301 redirects in case the URL structure is to be changed
- Performing a deep SEO audit to find out what architectural and structural issues need to be addressed to get you higher in organic search
- Conducting an on-page optimization (for example, to improve meta tags)
CONTENT MIGRATION
Challenge
As probably the most challenging part of a website redesign project, content migration may take up to 50% of the development costs. If not properly planned, however, it may increase the overall expenses significantly.
All-Round Approach
Before setting up a new CMS, we will help you perform a content inventory and develop a detailed migration road map to avoid the expensive last-minute rework and lower the burden on your content creators.
There is no safe way to migrate tens of thousands of pages to a new platform automatically without affecting content quality. We use programming to deal with structured data (information that helps search engines better understand your pages, such as titles, descriptions and so on), especially when the website structure is to be preserved. However, unstructured content like texts, images, videos and others requires a manual touch.
As a natural result of a website’s evolution, user-generated content is affected by multiple authors, publishing policies and formatting styles over years. This makes HTML vary from page to page considerably. Manual migration allows for cleaning up the legacy code and preparing the content for a new design.
So we combine both approaches to make sure that the new solution inherits the good and leaves out the bad.
CLOSE COOPERATION
Knowing how important it is to incorporate each stakeholder’s vision, however versatile it may be, into a migration strategy, we will ensure their continuous involvement throughout the entire development process. We will also exploit our technology expertise to bring in valuable ideas and modern practices to the project.
WHAT YOU GET
While performing website redesign, we not only replace old technologies with new ones, but also anticipate your future business growth and thus regular website updates. Set out to achieve both short- and long-term goals, our solutions share:
- Mobile-friendly design in line with the latest technologies and best practices in web development
- Intuitive control over various types of content (texts, graphics, videos and so on)
- Well-planned website structure and easy navigation
- Media-rich pages and personalized content
- Automated integration with other systems and applications, including data analysis tools, social media networks, e-commerce solutions and others
- High performance and information security
- Multilingual support