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Migration (Website Relaunch)

A website relaunch is a high-risk project. Old URLs change, content moves, and rankings can drop. arkmetis makes this process as safe as possible.

When does the Migration tab appear? As soon as you add a "Source" site to your project (the old website), the migration section becomes automatically visible.

Migration Overview

The overview shows both websites side by side:

  • Old Website (Source) vs. New Website (Primary)
  • SEO scores compared
  • A11y scores compared
  • Page count
  • Schema markup coverage

This gives you an at-a-glance view of whether the new website is at least as good as the old one.

Content Mapping

The heart of the migration: Which old page goes where on the new site?

For each page of the old website, you specify:

Action Meaning
Migrate 1:1 transfer to the new website
Merge Multiple old pages combined into one new page
Archive Content is not transferred; redirect to a similar page
Delete Page is removed (410 Gone)
Create New Content needs to be written from scratch

AI Matching

Manually mapping hundreds of pages is tedious. Click "AI Matching" (costs 1 credit) and arkmetis will:

  1. Analyze the content of each old page
  2. Find the best match on the new website
  3. Show a confidence score (e.g. 95% certain)
  4. Let you confirm or correct the suggestion

You can bulk-confirm all suggestions above a certain confidence threshold (e.g. 80%) at once.

Redirect Map

Based on the content mapping, arkmetis automatically creates the redirect rules:

  • Source Path → Target Path → Status Code (301/302/410)
  • Manually add or edit redirects
  • Import all source pages as redirects

Export Formats

Click "Export" and choose:

  • .htaccess – For Apache servers
  • nginx.conf – For nginx servers
  • CSV – For other systems or documentation purposes

Navigation Builder

The new website's navigation does not have to mirror the old one. The Navigation Builder helps:

  • AI-generated – arkmetis suggests a navigation structure based on the content mapping
  • Manual – Drag and drop to reorder
  • Menu Types – Main navigation, sidebar, meta menu, footer

Go-Live Checklist

The interactive checklist guides you through every step:

Before Go-Live

  • [ ] All redirects set up and tested
  • [ ] Canonical tags correct on all pages
  • [ ] robots.txt updated
  • [ ] XML sitemap updated
  • [ ] Analytics tracking on new domain
  • [ ] Google Search Console verified
  • [ ] SSL certificate active
  • [ ] Forms tested

After Go-Live

  • [ ] Ranking monitoring activated
  • [ ] Monitor 404 errors
  • [ ] Check crawl errors in Search Console
  • [ ] Performance comparison: old vs. new

Each item is marked as complete with a timestamp. Progress is shown as a percentage.

Sharing the Content Mapping

You can share the content mapping with your client:

  1. Click "Share"
  2. Optional: Set a password
  3. Your client receives a link and can leave comments on individual mappings
  4. You see the comments in the admin panel and can mark them as "Done"