Moving off Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy or a host you have outgrown, without losing the pages Google already sends you traffic for. We plan the move first, rebuild on staging, then switch when it is ready.
Closed platforms do not export their layouts. Anyone offering a one click move of a builder site is describing something the platforms do not provide.
This is the part most quotes skip. Closed platforms do not hand over their layouts, so anyone promising a one click move of a Wix or Squarespace site is describing something that does not exist. Here is the honest position for each platform.
Comes across: blog posts through the RSS feed, product data through a CSV export, and your text and images if they are downloaded properly rather than dragged from the browser.
Rebuilt by hand: every page layout, styling, forms, apps and most page level SEO settings. Wix does not produce portable code, so the pages are built again in WordPress to match.
Comes across: blog posts and basic pages through the XML export, and images where the export includes them.
Rebuilt by hand: product pages, galleries, event listings, custom CSS and member areas. URL patterns differ from WordPress, so redirects are required rather than optional.
Comes across: very little in usable form. Most builders offer no meaningful export at all.
Rebuilt by hand: effectively the whole site. We save every asset before anything is cancelled, because once the subscription lapses the content is gone.
Comes across: everything. Files, database, plugins, users and settings move as a complete copy.
Watch for: DNS and email records, SSL reissue and cached pages pointing at the old server. This is the fastest kind of move and still needs testing on staging first.
Builders are easy to start on and harder to grow on. The reasons people give us are consistent.
Stop paying and the site disappears. A WordPress build sits on hosting in your name, and the files are yours to take anywhere.
Closed platforms limit control over schema, canonical tags, redirects and server side caching. WordPress with a proper SEO plugin gives you all of it.
Plan prices rise and features move up a tier. Hosting plus a maintenance plan is usually more predictable over three years.
When bloat comes from the platform itself, there is no setting to change. On WordPress the build is yours to optimise.
Bookings, memberships, multi currency, stock feeds and integrations that a builder either cannot do or charges heavily for.
A closed platform narrows the pool of people who can help you. WordPress powers a large share of the web, so support is never one supplier away.
By deciding where every existing address will point before a single page is built. Google confirms that permanent redirects pass ranking signals to the new address, so the danger is never the redirect itself. It is the pages that were forgotten, sent to the homepage, or replaced with something thinner than what ranked before.
Every live address, every image, every PDF and every page that earns traffic is listed before work starts. Analytics and Search Console data comes with it.
If the old addresses can be recreated on WordPress, they are. Fewer changes means fewer things that can break.
Anything that must change is pointed at the closest equivalent page with a 301, in one hop. Nothing gets dumped on the homepage.
The new site is assembled on a private address while your current site keeps trading. Nothing goes live until it has been checked page by page.
DNS is the step that breaks businesses, not design. Mail records are documented before nameservers change so your inbox keeps working through the switch.
Redirects tested live, SSL confirmed, sitemap submitted, Search Console and analytics reconnected the same day.
Crawl errors, index coverage and lost pages checked weekly after launch, and corrected as part of the project.
Redirect handling follows Google Search Central guidance on site moves with URL changes.
Every one of these turns up in sites we are asked to rescue after somebody else moved them.
Once a builder subscription lapses the content is unrecoverable. The old site stays paid for until the new one is live and verified.
Importing content while WordPress is still set to numbered URLs bakes in addresses nobody wants and creates a second round of redirects.
Moving to cheap temporary hosting and then moving again produces orphaned images and redirect chains. Pick the permanent host, then move once.
Builders compress images for you. WordPress does not until it is set up to. Skip that and the new site launches slower than the one it replaced.
Nameservers change last, after the build is finished and tested, never as a way to see how it looks.
Google treats a mismatched redirect as a missing page. Each address needs a relevant destination or it loses what it had.
Migration is quoted on what your current site is built with and how much is on it, because a straight host to host copy and a full platform rebuild are very different pieces of work. A WordPress host to host move is usually done inside a week. A platform move is a rebuild with content carried across, so it runs closer to a redesign timeline of four to six weeks. We look at your existing site first and then give you a fixed figure in writing. We quote after looking, never before.
Same platform, new hosting. Full copy, staging test, DNS and email handled, SSL reissued. Typically two to five working days.
Wix, Squarespace or GoDaddy to WordPress. Content migrated, pages rebuilt, redirect map, forms and tracking. Four to six weeks.
Products, categories, customers and orders moved to WooCommerce, with payment and delivery reconfigured and tested.
Hosting and domain fees are paid by you directly to the provider, so there is no markup and no lock in.
Once the move is done, looking after the site starts at £25 a month. Updates, backups, monitoring and security, billed monthly with no minimum term.
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No. The new build sits on a private staging address until it is signed off, and the switch itself takes minutes. We schedule it outside your busy hours.
Not when addresses are mapped properly. Google passes ranking signals through permanent redirects. Small movement in the first few weeks is normal while pages are recrawled, and we monitor it rather than guess.
Yes. The domain stays where it is and simply points somewhere new. If you would rather move the registration to your own account as well, we can walk you through it.
Nothing, if it is handled correctly. Mail records are documented before any DNS change and put back exactly as they were. This is the single most common thing rushed migrations break.
Blog posts usually transfer. Products transfer through a CSV in most cases. Page layouts almost never do, on any closed platform, so those are rebuilt to match.
Until the new site has been live and verified for at least a fortnight. Cancelling early is the one mistake that cannot be undone.
Day to day editing is comparable once it is set up properly. The difference is upkeep. WordPress needs updates and backups, which is what a maintenance plan covers if you would rather not do it yourself.
Yes. Products, categories, customer accounts and order history can be migrated, then payment gateways and delivery rules are rebuilt and tested with real transactions before launch.
Usually, yes. We recommend a host based on your traffic and where your customers are, and you buy it in your own name so nothing is tied to us.
Then the move is a chance to fix it rather than carry it. We rebuild the structure properly instead of copying the same problems onto a new platform.
Send us the address and we will tell you what will transfer, what has to be rebuilt, how long it takes and what it costs. If staying put is the better answer, we will say that too.