Website migration for the site you already have.
Give us the URL and the agents rebuild it on askotter, keeping the parts still earning their place. Your domain and your URLs come with you, and the old site stays live until you say go.
What does a website migration with askotter involve?
askotter moves an existing small business website onto its platform at no extra cost, from $99 a month. The agents read every page, keep what still ranks or converts, rebuild the rest and redirect any URL that has to change. The old site stays live until the owner approves the switch. Online stores cannot be moved yet.
Four steps, and you approve before anything switches.
We read the site you have
Every page, so there is no questionnaire.
We keep what is earning
Pages that rank, bring traffic or convert come across. Dead pages get a redirect.
It gets rebuilt, URLs and all
Your URL structure stays wherever it can, with redirects for anything that moves.
You review it beside the old one
The rebuild sits on a preview address while your current site stays live.
Kept, rebuilt, and the difference between them.
- Your domain and your URL structure
- The copy that works, your photos and your reviews
- Your booking link and where form leads go
- Your tracking: Google Analytics, Search Console and ad tags
- Your email on your domain, which is left alone
- Page speed and the mobile layout
- The inquiry form, usually shorter and higher up
- Navigation, so your best service is not four clicks down
- Markup, schema, sitemaps, hosting and SSL
What happens to your rankings in a website migration.
- Every URL on your current site is crawled and mapped before the rebuild starts
- URLs stay as they are wherever possible, and anything that moves gets a permanent redirect
- Pages that rank keep the search intent they rank for
- Your sitemap is resubmitted at cutover and Search Console is watched after the switch
Positions can move for a week or two while Google recrawls, and no rebuild can guarantee rankings. After launch, local SEO services pick up from the same Search Console data.
What moving looks like, per platform.
→ WordPress
Pages, posts, images and URLs come across. Plugins do not need to, because forms, SEO and caching are built in.
→ Wix and Squarespace
They will not export a site, so the content is rebuilt page by page from the live site with your URLs kept or redirected.
→ GoDaddy, Weebly and other builders
Usually the quickest move, because there is less to carry.
→ Webflow or a custom build
The agents read hand-built HTML from the live site, so you need no source files or old logins.
Four things, and one of them is the URL.
- The address of your current site
- Access to your domain's DNS, or your registrar login, for the switch
- Google Analytics and Search Console access
- A login to anything embedded, like a booking tool
Want it all handled? A done-for-you website includes the move. Starting fresh? Try the small business website builder.
Website migration questions
Will I lose my Google rankings?
Do I keep my domain?
What happens to my email?
How long does the migration take?
Do you charge to migrate my site?
What if my site was built by a developer I no longer work with?
Give us the URL. We will show you the rebuild.
14 days free, no card. From $99/mo after, with hosting and SEO included.
Self-managed is $99/mo and scales with the compute you use. Our team runs it from $600/mo.