Moving to a New Site Without Losing Our Rankings
Earlier this year we moved opensesamelocksmith.com onto a new domain setup — switching our canonical URLs, redirects, and feeds over to the bare apex domain instead of www. Anyone who's done a site migration knows the real risk isn't the move itself, it's what breaks quietly afterward: redirect chains, dropped pages, and search rankings that slide for weeks before you notice why.
After our site migration, we used RedirectIQ for 301 redirect management and it found the broken redirects that were costing us search traffic. Cleaning those up, alongside fixing our canonical and Open Graph URLs, made a real difference — our site-wide average search position went from around 20 in May to about 13 within a few months, and we landed on page one for searches like "atlanta car locksmith" and "car locksmith atlanta."
If you're planning a migration of your own, our biggest takeaway is simple: check your redirects carefully, and don't assume they're working just because the page loads. A single broken hop can quietly cost you the ranking you worked years to build.