CTO Migrations
CTO Migrations, helps SEOs, webmasters, and site owners retain and recover organic traffic during high-risk website changes; whether it's a migration, redesign, domain switch, or platform/CMS change. Founded by Charles Taylor, a veteran SEO and website migration expert, CTO Migrations offers strategic guidance, tactical planning, and hands-on support to ensure smooth transitions with minimal disruption to search visibility. We believe that no migration should come at the cost of your hard-earned traffic and revenue. Through our proven frameworks, deep technical experience, and clear communication, we guide teams to navigate complex site changes with confidence. Whether you're planning a site redesign, consolidating domains, or shifting to a new CMS, CTO Migrations (a service of Charles Taylor Online LLC) is your trusted partner in preserving SEO performance every step of the way.
Episodes
❓ Which redirect is best for SEO Migrations? ❓
When it comes to redirects in migrations, not all are created equal.
👉 301 Redirect (Permanent)
✅ Passes SEO equity
✅ Best for migrations, URL changes, domain switches
✅ Tells Google the move is permanent
👉 302 Redirect (Temporary)
⚠️ Does not consistently pass SEO value
⚠️ Tells Google the redirect is short-term
⚠️ Can cause ...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, a service from Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/seo-migrations/
❓ What’s the First Step in a Website Migration? ❓
Before touching code, launching redirects, or flipping the switch, you need one thing above all else: A plan.
That means:
✅ Mapping out all existing and legacy URLs.
✅ Documenting what’s staying, ...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, a service from Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/seo-migrations/
Does Redesigning a Website Affect its SEO?
The answer: It shouldn’t...but it can.
A redesign is often about fresh visuals, updated branding, and a better user experience. But if SEO isn’t factored into the process, rankings and traffic WILL take a hit (pote...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, a service from Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/seo-migrations/
❓ Will My Website Go Down During a Domain Transfer? ❓
Short answer: It shouldn’t.
A properly managed domain transfer (or domain migration) does not require your site to go offline. But downtime can happen if key steps are missed.
Here’s what you need t...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, a service from Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/seo-migrations/
❓ Does changing your domain have an impact on SEO❓
YES - absolutely!
A domain change is one of the riskiest types of website migrations. You’re asking Google to trust that all your site’s history, authority, and backlinks should now transfer to an ent...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, a service of Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/
What the Research Reveals About SEO Migration
Domain changes, platform shifts, and large-scale site restructures carry long shadows in search visibility. A January 2025 study from Search Engine Journal analyzed hundreds of projects and exposed the reality: SEO Migration recovery is rarel...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, a service of Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/
Why SEO Migration Recovery Takes Time
Every SEO Migration disrupts the way search engines understand a site. When domains, URL paths, or platforms change, Google must crawl, test, and re-learn the structure. Charles Taylor, founder of Charles Taylor Online LLC and lead consultant for CTO Mig...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, an SEO Migration service by Charles Taylor (veteran SEO expert) of Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/seo-migrations/
What to Expect in an SEO Migration
Every SEO Migration creates a short-term disruption. Search engines must re-crawl the domain, evaluate redirects, and confirm indexing signals. That process causes a temporary dip in ...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, a service of Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/seo-migrations/
Why Migration Traffic Loss Happens
Even flawless execution cannot prevent a dip in visibility. During SEO Website Migrations, search engines must re-learn domains, platforms, and URL structures. This recalibration leads to temporary volatility in rankings. Charles Taylor, ...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, a service of Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/seo-migrations/
Why SEO Website Migrations Rarely Run Flawlessly
Website migrations involve hundreds of moving parts—URL structures, redirects, content updates, technical frameworks, analytics configurations. Even when executed by skilled teams, something almost always slips. Charles Tayl...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, an SEO website migration service by Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/seo-migrations/
Why SEO Website Migration Recovery Matters
A flawed migration can devastate organic visibility. Rankings vanish, traffic collapses, and business pipelines stall. Yet recovery is possible when the right expertise steps in. CTO Migrations, operated b...
Business Information:
Name: CTO Migrations, a website migration service by Charles Taylor Online LLC
Website: https://www.charlestayloronline.com/
Why URLs and SEO Cannot Be Separated
Search engines read a site’s architecture through its URLs. When a business undergoes a website migration, the URL structure becomes the backbone of whether rankings remain intact or disappear. At CTO Migrations, Charles Taylor Online LLC treats eve...
A website migration can be one of the most critical and risky events in a site’s lifecycle. While planned migrations—where every redirect, URL update, and structural change is mapped out—can protect your rankings, an unexpected migration can cause significant damage to your organic visibility.
One of the most common issues occurs when a domain’s structure changes without proper planning. For example:
- Switching from HTTP to HTTPS ...
In this episode of The SEO Migration Podcast, Charles Taylor; aka The SEO Migration Guy, dives into one of the most common and critical questions in SEO: Does changing your website URL affect SEO? Spoiler alert: it absolutely can. But the good news is, with the right process in place, you can protect your rankings, traffic, and authority.
Charles breaks down why URLs matter so much to search engines, what risks are involved in chang...
How long should it take to recover SEO traffic after a migration? In this video, SEO veteran Charles Taylor breaks down the latest migration study by Dan Taylor (no relation) from Search Engine Journal. With over a decade of Enterprise SEO experience, Charles reviews a comprehensive analysis of 892 domain migrations and what it really takes to recover SEO traffic after a migration — and how long it should (and shouldn’t) take.
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