--- title: "Website Migration Services UK: Keep Your Rankings" description: "Website migration for UK small businesses: move between Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, WordPress and Astro, with every URL mapped and redirected so rankings hold." canonical: https://lucentdigital.co.uk/website-migration --- 1. [Home](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/) 2. [Services](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/services) 3. Move platform. Keep your… # Move platform. Keep your rankings. Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, WordPress or Astro, in any direction. Every URL you rank for is mapped and redirected before anything moves, and the site gets rebuilt on the way across rather than just relocated. [Get your free website review](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/website-review) [See the fees](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/website-migration#pricing) - Live in ten working days of brief lock, or the second half of the invoice waits - One 20-minute call, we do the rest - Price fixed in writing before anything starts Trusted by Procon 24/7, Headingley Roofing, Birkinshaw Aesthetics, Andrews of Holmfirth, Dunnrite Scaffolding, Unique Support Solutions, ProMax Roofing, Liv's Lounge, Pontefract Padel ## What actually decides whether a migration works. 01 ### Your rankings are mapped before anything moves The fear that stops most migrations is losing the Google traffic the business already has, and it is a rational fear: rankings die when URLs change and nothing tells Google where they went. **Read more** So the first job is not the new site. It is pulling every URL you currently rank for out of Search Console and mapping each one to its new address, with a permanent redirect behind it. Expect a dip for a week or two while Google recrawls. A permanent drop is a mistake, not a migration. 02 ### We will tell you when not to move A migration is an expensive way to change nothing if the platform was not the problem. **Read more** Plenty of sites are slow, thin or badly structured in ways that will follow them onto any new system, and moving those is a bill without an outcome. If that is what your site is, we will say so on the call and tell you what would actually move the number instead. Some of these conversations end with us talking somebody out of the work. 03 ### Any direction, and you keep the keys Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, WordPress and Astro, in whichever direction makes sense. The hosting account goes in your name, the domain stays registered to you, and you hold every login at the end of it. **Read more** That matters more here than on a new build, because the reason a lot of people cannot leave their current platform is that somebody else is holding the keys. We are not going to do that to you. 04 ### Rebuilt, not just relocated Everyone else on page one for this search is an SEO agency: they will move the site and protect the rankings, then hand you back the same pages you had. **Read more** The platform vendors do the reverse and move your files without caring what happens in search. Moving is the expensive part of the job, so doing it without improving what lands is a wasted opportunity. The copy, structure and conversion path get rebuilt on the way across. *Illustration: Redirect map from old URLs to new URLs* *Illustration: every old address mapped to its new one before launch.* - Live in ten working days - Fixed price, in writing, before anything starts - One person accountable - Replies within one working day - Your account, your card, your site - Leeds, working UK-wide ## Ten working days, and you see the map first. 1. D00 ### Audit Free 30-min call. We name three things losing you leads (in pounds) before you sign. 2. D01 ### Brief Position, voice, page architecture confirmed. One-page agreement signed. 3. D02–05 ### Design Sitemap, copy, wireframes, then the hi-fi design surface with brand locked. 4. D06–08 ### Build Production build, every page wired, mobile responsive, SEO and QA gates passed. 5. D10 ### Launch Site live. Loom handover. Support window opens. **The full day-by-day breakdown, D00 to D10** 1. Day 1 **The ranking inventory** Every URL earning impressions comes out of Search Console with its position and traffic, and that list becomes the map. You see it before anything is touched, and it is the document the whole migration is judged against afterwards. 2. Days 2 to 4 **Redirect map and content audit** Old URL to new URL, one row at a time, including the pages worth merging or retiring. Anything that cannot move cleanly gets flagged here rather than discovered later. Comment threads and platform-specific widgets are the usual casualties, and you get that list in writing. 3. Days 5 to 8 **Rebuild on the new platform** Pages, posts, images and metadata come across, and the copy and conversion path get rebuilt rather than transplanted. Built and reviewed on a staging URL you can see, not described to you in an email. 4. Days 9 to 10 **Cutover and watch** Redirects go live with the site, the new property is verified in Search Console and the sitemap is submitted the same day. Then we watch the crawl for a fortnight, because the first two weeks after a cutover are when a missed redirect shows up and the window in which it is cheap to fix. ## Moved, and still ranking. Real migrations for real businesses, with the numbers they produced afterwards. Every figure is the client's own. [See all work](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/work) **[Procon 24/7](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/work/procon-247)**: ![Procon 24/7 website](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/work/procon247.webp) TRACKED REVENUE BLENDED ROAS 2,055 Concrete Supplier · Yorkshire & North West 2026 **[Dunnrite Scaffolding](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/work/dunnrite-scaffolding)**: ![Dunnrite Scaffolding website](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/work/dunnrite-scaffolding.webp) Trades · Scaffolding 2026 **[Unique Support Solutions](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/work/unique-support-solutions)**: ![Unique Support Solutions website](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/work/unique-support-solutions.webp) Health & Social Care · Supported Living 2026 ## What you actually get. One product, two ways to start. The monthly is the same either way: what changes is whether you pay the launch fee to keep the door open, or commit and let us waive it. We recommend Committed, because it costs nothing to begin. We give you the figure on the audit call, once we have seen the job. Not ready to choose? [book the free audit and decide after](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/contact) ### What you get for it. 01 ### You get found by people already looking to buy Your Google Business Profile run properly rather than just filled in, and local SEO across the towns you actually cover: the searches with a job attached, not vanity terms. 02 ### You can count the enquiries, not guess at them Every enquiry your site produces lands in your inbox and in your dashboard, next to the search that produced it. If it is not working you will see it before we tell you. 03 ### You stop thinking about the website Hosting, security, backups, updates and content changes are in the price. Nothing to renew, nothing to chase, no annual invoice you forgot was coming. 04 ### You own it, outright Design, copy and code. Yours the day the launch fee clears on Flexible, or at month 12 on Committed. Not rented, not held on our hosting. Before we start we write down what you get in a normal month, and every monthly report measures against it. Every client gets a private members' portal: your site's live performance (traffic, rankings, enquiries) in one place, plus first access to services we don't sell publicly. Agencies quote £10k+ for this. We don't write proposals, we don't have account managers: one person doing the work, and what you pay reflects that. **In writing:** Live within ten working days of brief lock, or the second half of the invoice waits until it is. Fixed price agreed in writing before anything starts. ## What you'd ask on the call. What gets asked on every audit call: answered before you book one. **Not answered here?** Ask David directly. He replies himself, usually within one working day. [Not sure moving is the right call? Ask us](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/contact) [Read every question we get asked](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/faq) **01 Will I lose my Google rankings when I move platforms?** That is the real risk and it is the whole reason this is a service rather than an export button. Rankings are lost when URLs change and nothing tells Google where they went. Before anything moves we pull every URL you currently rank for out of Search Console, map each one to its new address, and put a permanent redirect in place. Traffic usually dips for a week or two while Google recrawls, which is normal and temporary. What is not normal is a permanent drop, and that is what the mapping prevents. **02 Which platforms do you migrate between?** Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, WordPress and Astro, in any direction. Most of the work we see is someone leaving a builder they have outgrown, usually because the SEO controls are too shallow or the monthly cost has crept up. We will also tell you when moving is not worth it: if the platform is not the thing holding the site back, a migration is an expensive way to change nothing. **03 What is the difference between a migration and a redesign?** A redesign changes how the site looks and reads while it stays where it is. A migration changes what the site is built on. They are often done together and that is usually the cheapest moment to do both, since the URLs are being remapped either way. If you only want the design changed, the redesign page is the one you want. **04 Do I lose my content, images and blog posts?** No. Pages, posts, images and metadata come across. Anything that cannot move cleanly gets flagged before we start rather than discovered afterwards, and comment threads and platform-specific widgets are the usual casualties. You get the list in writing first. **05 How long does a website migration take?** Ten working days for the sites we normally handle, same as a build. Larger sites with hundreds of URLs take longer and we say so before you commit rather than halfway through. The redirect map is the part that determines the timeline, not the page count. **06 Who owns the site and the accounts afterwards?** You do, outright. The hosting account is in your name, the domain stays registered to you, and you hold the logins. This matters more on a migration than on a build, because the reason a lot of people cannot leave their current platform is that somebody else holds the keys. We will not do that to you. **07 What does a website migration cost?** The same monthly as everything else, with the migration inside it rather than quoted as a separate project fee. If your site is large enough that the redirect mapping is a genuinely bigger job, you get that number in pounds in writing before you commit. ## What clients actually say. **5.0** [5 Google reviews](https://search.google.com/local/reviews?placeid=ChIJ1TqYJg6BfE0RpHIlj2Dkrcc) > Within two weeks of launching the new site, we saw a 37% increase in quote requests. > > *David Grayshon, Procon 24/7* > He researched our sector before writing a single word, and asked better questions than agencies three times his size. > > *Neil Gallagher, Google review* > We didn't think a website could feel like us, but this does. Our regulars kept saying it looks exactly like Andrews. > > *Johnny Hunt, Andrews of Holmfirth* > He wanted me to be the most satisfied client he had, because he wasn't going to let that referral down. > > *Paul Hughes, ProMax Roofing* ## Before you commit to moving. - [Website redesign Staying on the same platform and only changing the design? That is the page you want.](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/website-redesign) - [WordPress web design Custom WordPress with no bought themes, if that is where you are heading.](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/wordpress-web-design) - [How much does a website cost in the UK? The honest breakdown by route, and where a fixed monthly sits against it.](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/journal/how-much-does-a-website-cost-uk) - [SEO services What happens after the move, reported on enquiries rather than rankings.](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/seo-services) ## Send us the site. Free 30 minutes. You get the honest answer, including when the answer is to stay where you are. [Get your free website review](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/website-review) [Or book the free audit](https://lucentdigital.co.uk/contact) [07511 184265](tel:07511184265)