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Field notes from the trenches of search, AI visibility, and revenue-first marketing.

Austin Lewis, SEO and GEO consultant

How to Hire an SEO Consultant: What to Look for Before You Sign

Learn how to hire an SEO consultant, what questions to ask, red flags to avoid, and how to evaluate SEO expertise, strategy, reporting, and results.

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What Is Site Migration? A Guide to Migrating a Website Without Wrecking SEO

Learn what site migration is, common migration types, SEO risks, and the steps needed to move a website without sacrificing organic search performance.

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Domain Change SEO: What Happens to Your Rankings When You Rebrand

Changing domains during a rebrand? Learn how domain change SEO works and how to protect rankings, backlinks, and organic traffic during migration.

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SEO Migration Services: What to Look for Before You Hire

Evaluating SEO migration services? Use this buyer's checklist to compare agencies, protect rankings, reduce migration risk, and hire with confidence.

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Website Redesign SEO: How to Relaunch Without Losing Rankings

Learn the website redesign SEO process for protecting rankings, redirects, content, links, and organic traffic before and after launch.

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SEO Benchmarking: How to Run a Pre-Migration SEO Benchmark

Learn how to run an SEO benchmarking analysis before a website migration and measure rankings, traffic, links, conversions, and technical performance.

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301 Redirect Mapping: How to Build and QA a Redirect Map

Learn how to build and QA a 301 redirect map for a website migration, including URL mapping, implementation, redirect testing, and SEO checks.

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Replatforming SEO: How to Migrate Without Losing Organic Traffic

Learn how to approach replatforming SEO, preserve rankings and organic traffic, map redirects, test migrations, and monitor performance after launch.

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Domain Migration SEO: How to Change Domains Without Tanking Your Rankings

Planning a domain migration? Learn how to protect SEO, rankings, backlinks, indexing, and organic traffic with a practical website migration process.

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SEO Migration Checklist: How to Migrate a Website Without Losing Organic Traffic

Follow this SEO migration checklist to protect rankings and organic traffic before, during, and after a website redesign, CMS change, or domain migration.

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