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Top 4 Website Migration Best Practices

Do you have any online business? Are you an e-commerce website owner and finding it difficult to scale your current website to support your growing business needs? If your e-commerce business is generating desirable traffic and conversion rate and your current platform is unable to handle the surge in traffic then it is high time for you to migrate to another e-commerce platform!

Let us go through the below-mentioned steps to minimize technical as well business issues and make the web migration process hassle-free:

Do not cancel your present hosting plan as you begin your migration

To prevent website downtime and loss of revenue, you should not cancel your hosting plan with your current host till the transfer of your website to a new server is complete as this process demands time. You should ensure that your customers can make transactions while you are in the process of migration.

Create and download backup files while moving data

While you move your data from the current server to new server which is a very crucial stage in website migration you need to create backup files of your website and then download them. This database download will take place in compressed form and it will be decompressed by the new server when you upload them to your new server. Remember, you need not decompress the files yourself, let the new server do it.

Set permanent redirects of your links

Your website’s growth depends on effective link building which is a very important SEO strategy. If you lose the links that you have gathered for years together then it is very much possible that you would lose the ability to rank for search terms relevant to your website. If you rely on website development experts then they would set permanent redirects of your link which will point at the same page pages on the new site, as they are doing on your current site, without the knowledge of your visitors.

Test and iterate your new site

After the migration process is over, it is of utmost importance to ensure that your new website functions better than your old website otherwise it won’t be worth the money you have spent. Identify and rectify the problems before your new website goes live. Hence, test, iterate and reiterate!

Pay heed to the suggestions of website development specialists so that you have a smooth website migration.

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