Moving away from an old website, without losing what works
Your site still lives with a site builder you no longer like, or with a web designer you cannot reach. You want something new that is actually yours. Moving is less work than it sounds, and you see the new homepage before you pay.
Fixed price: €1,500. The first three customers €750.
What moving a site involves, step by step
There are three parts to a move: the content, the address and the old links. The content is your texts and photos; we start from what your old site already says. The address is your domain name; it moves to a registration in your own name. The old links are the addresses people have saved or that Google knows; where the old site had pages people link to, we point those addresses at the new pages.
- Your texts and photos come alongPaste the address of your old site in the form. We use what is on it as the start of the new one, so you do not have to write everything again.
- The domain ends up in your nameNot in ours and not in your old designer's. To move it, your current provider gives you a transfer code. We tell you exactly where to ask for it, in writing.
- No gap while you switchNormally the old site stays online until the new one is ready on your domain. Customers who visit in between see the old site, not an error page. We work from Zwijndrecht's neighbour, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, by e-mail only.
Two examples, from businesses that do not exist
Clearpage is just starting and has had no customers yet. These sites were built for invented businesses, so you can see what you get. They are in Dutch; yours can be in English. Click one and walk through it.
How it goes, without a meeting
You get a message at every step, and an answer to yours within one working day, in English.
You tell us about your business
Five fields: the name, what kind of business it is, the town, what you do and your e-mail address.You
You get a link to your homepage
A real page at a temporary address. You have paid nothing yet.Clearpage
You decide
Go ahead for the fixed price, with the agreements in writing. Or stop: then it costs nothing and we take the page down.You
Questions about this kind of site
My old designer holds my domain. Can you still move it?
Only with a transfer code from whoever holds the registration, or with their cooperation. That is how domain names work everywhere. If you cannot get the code, we can still build the new site; you then need a new domain name, and we tell you the trade-off before you choose.
Do I lose my place in Google?
Moving can cost some ground for a while, and nobody can promise otherwise. Pointing the old addresses at the new pages keeps most of what search engines already know about you. We will not tell you a move improves your ranking.
My old site is a web shop. Does that move too?
A web shop with online payments is not part of the standard site. Choose "something else" in the form and describe your shop; you get a price for that first.
More answers: all questions, or check your current homepage for free.
See your homepage first, free
Within one working day you get an answer with the day your homepage will be ready. You decide only after you have seen it.
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