The Secret Blueprint to Changing Your Domain Name Without Losing a Single Visitor
While you are at it, look for any broken links on your site and correct or redirect them as well. You can find them with a plugin like Broken Link Checker. The aforementioned Redirection plugin also tracks 404 errors, so you can easily point them to the right location.
Another option is advanced tools like Sitebulb or Screaming Frog.
Once you’re done with that, if you’ve been working with a staging site so far, now is the time to move your changes over to your live or production website.
10. Signal the domain change in Google Search Console
To preserve your SEO rankings and speed up the reindexing process, Google needs to be notified that your website has moved to a new domain. To do that, both your old and new domain names need to be set up and verified in Google Search Console.
