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The ORIGINAL
Search Marketing Event
#SESMiami
SEO Sanity During a Redesign
A process to help you avoid disaster
Michael Gracen
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment
SEO, SEM & Digital Manager
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Download the checklist:
bit.ly/seoredesign
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Pre-Launch
Launch Day
Post-Launch
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Pre-Launch
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NEVER take your
live website down
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Keep new pages
from being found
(before their time)
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Set up a
sandbox
development
environment
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Block Googlebots
crawl access from
dev environment
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Password protect
OR
Noindex, Nofollow
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Noindex, Nofollow
<META NAME="ROBOTS"
CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
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Minimize outside
variables if possible
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Switch servers
2-4 weeks before
or after redesign
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Crawl existing site
with Screaming
Frog SEO Spider
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Review page
titles and
descriptions
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Save to Excel
2 copies
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Great time to
optimize and
remove dupe
content
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Keep existing URL
structure as much
as possible
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301 redirect URLs
on page by page
basis
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Do NOT use 302
redirects, always
use 301
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OK to consolidate
pages, but dont
orphan anything
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Dont delete
update content
or redirect to
relevant page
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Unless
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OK to 404 pages
that have tons of
crappy incoming
links
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Great time to
review your
backlink profile
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Download from
GWT, Ahrefs,
Majestic, OSE
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CAREFULLY use
Google disavow
tool to remove
crappy links
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Create an
awesome 404
error page
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Add Google
Analytics code
to track and
find errors
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Use Screaming
Frog to create
new XML
sitemap
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Make sure
ONLY new
URLs are
included
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Add rel=canonical
to ensure Google
indexes correct
page version
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Sanity check
robots.txt for any
gotchas
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Google now wants
access to CSS
and Javascript
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Sanity check
tracking codes:
GA, GWT, BWT,
ad tracking, etc.
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Launch Day
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Add annotation
in GA for a line
in the sand
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Remove all instances
of Noindex, Nofollow
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Remove robots.txt
exclusions
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Push your new
301 redirects live
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Submit new
XML sitemap
in GWT
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Fetch new
URLs in GWT
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Submit new
XML sitemap
in BWT
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Post-Launch
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Site:command
Number of
indexed pages?
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Is traffic
remaining
steady?
Whoa!
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Are rankings
remaining
steady?
Ouch!
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GWT/BWT
Crawl issues?
Index status?
Ack!
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Takeaway #1
Dont confuse Google.
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Takeaway #2
301 redirects are the critical
piece of the puzzle.
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Takeaway #3
Watch analytics like a hawk
post-launch.
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Download the checklist:
bit.ly/seoredesign
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Thank you!

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