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SEO Migration Cost

SEO migration cost depends on what can break

A migration quote is not useful until it separates audit scope, recovery urgency, rebuild work, catalog risk, and post-launch monitoring. The cheapest rebuild is expensive if redirects, canonicals, and tracking are wrong.

Cost bands by migration risk

Pre-migration SEO audit

$490

Smaller WordPress sites that need redirect, metadata, schema, indexability, and Core Web Vitals risk mapped before a rebuild quote.

Output: 72-hour developer-ready audit, credited toward a rebuild within 30 days.

Small SEO-safe rebuild

From $4,500

A focused marketing site with a small template set, low integration risk, and a manageable URL inventory.

Output: Fixed-scope Next.js rebuild after audit, with redirects, metadata, schema, sitemap, and launch QA included.

Content-heavy migration

$8,000 to $18,000+

Dozens or hundreds of pages, multiple reusable templates, older blog/category structure, and meaningful organic traffic.

Output: Template rebuild, content migration plan, redirect QA, canonical checks, schema parity, and post-launch monitoring.

Urgent recovery

Custom

Traffic already dropped after a redesign, CMS move, domain change, or platform migration.

Output: Failure-pattern diagnosis first: redirects, canonicals, sitemap coverage, noindex, metadata loss, internal links, and GSC evidence.

WooCommerce or catalog migration

Custom

Products, category filters, faceted navigation, product schema, checkout decisions, or 1,000 to 10,000+ URL inventories.

Output: Catalog-specific URL inventory, duplicate-route control, redirect automation, product/category schema checks, and launch monitoring.

Open catalog migration page

Ongoing migration monitoring

From $750/mo

Teams that need post-launch Core Web Vitals, indexing, redirects, and technical SEO regression monitoring.

Output: Monthly technical SEO ops after launch, with priority fixes when search or performance signals move.

What changes the cost

  • Indexable URL count and redirect-map depth
  • Number of unique templates, not only total page count
  • Canonical, metadata, schema, and sitemap parity requirements
  • Core Web Vitals baseline and whether plugin bloat is structural
  • WooCommerce, filters, multilingual routing, old subdomains, or custom search
  • Whether traffic has already dropped and recovery is urgent

How to compare quotes

  • Does the quote include URL inventory and redirect QA, or only design/development?
  • Does it specify metadata, canonical, schema, and sitemap parity?
  • Does it include Search Console monitoring after launch?
  • Does it explain what happens to old URLs, category URLs, and deleted pages?
  • Does the vendor define when not to rebuild yet?

Recovery warning

If traffic already dropped, do not buy a rebuild first

Diagnose the drop before changing platforms again. The first job is to identify whether the loss came from redirects, canonicals, sitemap gaps, noindex leakage, metadata loss, internal links, schema, or Core Web Vitals.

Use the calculator, then validate the SEO risk

The calculator gives a first-pass scope read. The audit turns that estimate into a developer-ready migration plan with URLs, evidence, priorities, and implementation notes.