Website Redesign Checklist

Information about your old site

• Gather any data on sales, leads, or other performance of your old website so that you can compare it against the new site.
• Track your old site?s search engine ranks.
• Check what were the most visited pages on your old website.
• Check how many other sites are linking to your old website.

New Site Launch

• Keep as many of your old URLs as possible.
• Make sure every URL from your old website would redirect to an appropriate page on your new website.
• If page redirect is not feasible use a server-side 301 setting.
• Run a link validator on your website to be sure that the internal links have all been updated.
• Make ssure ?File Not Found? page is well written and explains the situation.

After Site Launch

• Monitor 404 errors.
• Make sure the inbound links link to existing URLs on your website.
• Take the time to make sure your directory listings are linking to the correct URLs.
• Submit XML Sitemap for getting pages indexed quickly.