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Website Redesigns & Platform
MigrationsHow to Minimize the Loss of Organic Traffic, Leads, and Sales
Carolyn Dickerson – Digital Marketing Strategist
859.466.7760
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Who Am I?
Moved and/or combined over 850+ websites
LinkedIn expert
Masters in Business (MBA) with an associate degree in
computer Science
Certified Technical Trainer
Cincinnati American Marketing Assn – VP of Community
Engagement
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AMA Cincinnati Chapter
Manage 5 Communities for the AMA (SIGS)
❖ Digital Marketing
❖ B2B
❖ Sales & Marketing
❖ Market Research
❖ Job Transition
Go to AMACincinnati.org to learn about events
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Reasons to Redesign Your Website
Increase leads
Increase sales
Rebrand
Mergers & acquisitions
Dated technology
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Value vs Risk – Loss of Traffic
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Value vs Risk – Loss of Sales
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Why Do Redesigns Fail?
1. Pre-Audit
2. Project
3. Post Audit
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1. Pre-Audit
Audit your website, then
protect your assets.
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Redesign Pitfalls
Failing to take an Inventory of your website assets
Content
Inbound Links
Keyword Ranking
Conversion Tools
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Redesign Pitfalls
NOT backing your assets offline
Losing the value of inbound links
Losing keyword rankings
Changing good conversion tools
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Content Audit Document
https://moz.com/blog/content-audit
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Inbound Links – Existing URLs
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Keyword Ranking
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Conversion Tools
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What Happens If You Do Not Audit First
Drop in traffic
Drop in leads
Wasted time, effort and money
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2. Build a New Website
Great downloadable worksheets to help plan at https://www.hubspot.com/how-to/website-redesign
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3. Post Audit
Confirm scripts for conversion tools have been added
Change the links used in your PPC campaigns immediately
Confirm there is a sitemap.xml
Confirm that the new sitemap.xml has been submitted to search
engines
Check for broken indexed links
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3. Post Audit
Check interactive elements and forms across all major browsers
Check old and new bounce rates
Double check lead flow process
Run a search engine spider simulator
Ranking reports are not valid until the bots do a deep crawl
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Tools
Content tools
Google Analytics
Social Sprout
Hubspot
Many more
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Tools
Inbound links
Google Webmaster tools
Open Site Explorer
Moz
Majestic SEO
Ahrefs.com
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Tools
Keyword Ranking Tools
SEMRush.com
SpyFu.com
ahrefs.com
https://www.searchenginegenie.com/google-rank-checker.html
https://serps.com/tools/rank-checker/
https://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/keyword-
position.html
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Tools
Conversion Tools
Google Analytics
Marketo
Hot Jar
Google Adwords
SalesForce
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Thank You!
Carolyn Dickerson – [email protected] – 859.466.7760
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