It is crucial before undertaking website redesign to insure that your website’s assets are in order and safe.
You can cause more damage than good by trying to undertake a website redesign on your own if you don't know how to properly preserve and protect your existing pages.
Key Concepts and Statistics
- Website assets such as content, inbound links, keyword rankings, and conversion tools are critical to a strong web presence.
- To preserve your web presence, you must keep track these assets to insure that they are all transferred in the redesign process.
The Asset Check List
- o Determine how many pages you have.
- o Figure out which pages are most popular/powerful.
- o Determine how many inbound links you have.
- o Establish where these links are coming from.
- o Look up what interior pages have inbound links.
- o Figure out which inbound links are most popular/powerful.
- o Determine what keywords you rank for before the move.
- o Figure out which keywords are most effective.
Takeaway
If you do not fully understand the importance and practice of proper SEO, doing a web redesign can be more damaging than helpful. If you do not feel comfortable around SEO work, it may be best to hire a specialist to perform the redesign so all the hard work you have put into making a web presence does not disappear. It may also be time to contact a professional to set you up with a system that can track current SEO metrics if you don’t already have a system in place.
Source: Hubspot, 2011
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