Shopify Migration — Move Without Losing Rankings
Onto Shopify with the two things that actually matter kept: every record, and every ranking.
A migration is an accounting exercise wearing a web-project costume. The work that decides success happens before anything moves: the inventory of what exists (products, variants, customers, orders, content, URLs), the mapping of where each thing lands, and the redirect plan that keeps years of search equity alive through the cutover.
Typical migrations: WooCommerce and Magento to Shopify (the classic replatforms), bespoke/custom stacks where the data lives in stranger places, and consolidations of multiple stores. Rehearsed on staging with reconciliation counts — products in vs products out, orders spot-checked, redirects tested — before the live cutover, on a weekday morning, with a rollback plan written down.
Quarterly, and only when the numbers move
Get the rate report before you negotiate.
Updated rate bands across the major stacks and regions, plus what changed and why. No other email.
Questions
Asked about shopify migration.
Not to the migration itself — rankings die at unmapped URLs and changed content, both of which are controllable. Every old URL gets a mapped 301, content parity is checked page by page, and Search Console is watched daily through the cutover window. That discipline is the difference between a migration and a crater.
Focused stores (under ~500 products, clean data): 2–4 weeks. Large or messy catalogs — variants gone wild, HTML in descriptions, orphaned images — run longer, and the audit prices it honestly before you commit.
Customers and order history transfer through Shopify's supported paths; where the platform limits what can move (it does in places), the audit states exactly what carries, what archives, and what stays behind — decided before the migration, not discovered after.
Send the brief. Get the scope — number included.
Deliverables, milestones, timeline, terms — a written scope within two business days, with the price at the bottom of it. Not a fit? You keep the scope.
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