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SEO MigrationChange your site without losing your rankings. We manage the SEO side of redesigns, platform moves and domain changes for businesses in Qatar — redirect maps, pre-launch checks and post-launch monitoring — so traffic survives the switch.
Most organic traffic loss happens during site changes, not algorithm updates. A redesign launches, URLs change without redirects, the new templates drop the H1s and internal links, and three months later someone notices traffic is down 40%. We see it constantly.
We run migration SEO for businesses in Qatar from our UK studio, working remotely alongside your developers and designers from planning through to post-launch. We own the SEO checklist so nothing gets missed in the rush to go live — including the local pitfalls generic checklists miss.
In Qatar that starts with your MoCI e-commerce licence pages: licences are issued per platform, so a replatform can have registration implications, and the licence pages themselves are trust signals Google and customers both read. Add Arabic-first content that must keep its heading structure and hreflang through RTL template changes, plus Tabby and Tamara checkout integrations that have to survive the move. We benchmark everything before, map every URL, QA staging like Google would, then watch Search Console daily after launch.
Benchmark rankings, traffic and indexation before anything changes — your insurance policy.
Every old URL mapped to its new equivalent. No chains, no 404s on important pages.
Full technical review of the new site before launch: crawl, indexation, templates, speed.
MoCI e-commerce licence pages preserved and re-verified — they are trust signals, not filler.
Arabic templates keep heading order, meta and structured data through the redesign.
Tabby, Tamara, card and cash-on-delivery flows verified on staging before go-live.
Shopify, WordPress, Salla, Zid, headless — platform-specific pitfalls handled.
Daily Search Console and ranking checks for 4 to 6 weeks, with rapid fixes.
Rankings, traffic, indexed pages and backlinks recorded before work starts.
URL mapping, redirect rules, template requirements and launch checklist.
Staging crawled and reviewed — we sign off SEO before launch.
Launch-day monitoring for immediate issues.
Daily checks for 30 days, weekly for the next 60.
Traffic recovery report against the pre-migration benchmark.
The MoCI licence question gets ignored. Qatar requires an e-commerce licence from the Ministry of Commerce and Industry per platform. Businesses replatform without checking whether the licence follows the business or the storefront — and meanwhile the licence information pages, which carry real trust weight with Qatari shoppers, get dropped in the redesign. We protect those pages and flag the registration question before you commit.
Arabic-first content gets "streamlined". Marketing trims 2,000 words of ranking Arabic content to 200 words of brand copy, or the new theme ships Arabic pages with broken heading hierarchy. Rankings follow the content out the door. We protect what ranks and migrate it properly, in both languages.
BNPL integrations break silently. Tabby and Tamara are conversion-critical for Qatari ecommerce. A replatform that misconfigures the instalment widgets at checkout bleeds orders while traffic metrics look healthy. We QA the full BNPL flow on staging — widget render, eligibility messaging, callback handling.
Snapchat and TikTok landing pages get orphaned. Paid social drives a huge share of Qatari ecommerce traffic, and the landing pages those campaigns point to are often the first casualties of a URL restructure. We map every paid landing URL, not just the organic ones.
Related services: SEO services in Qatar for ongoing growth, our Qatar hub for the full service list, and social media marketing in Qatar to protect your paid social traffic during the move.
SEO migration is managing the search-visibility risks of site changes: redesigns, platform moves, domain changes or HTTPS switches — keeping rankings and traffic intact through redirects, QA and monitoring.
Quoted per project in Qatari riyals (QAR), based on site size and complexity. Ecommerce replatforms sit higher because of checkout, BNPL and licence-page work. Fixed fees are quoted upfront — it is far cheaper than recovering lost traffic afterwards.
It can: licences are issued per platform, so a move to a new platform may have registration implications. That is a legal question for your advisor, but on the SEO side we make sure your licence information pages survive the migration — they matter for customer trust and for how the site is perceived.
At the planning stage — before designs are finalised. Retrofitting SEO onto finished designs is expensive and limited.
Yes — most Qatari customers search and buy in Arabic. We audit the Arabic templates as the primary version: heading structure, meta, hreflang and internal links, with English as the secondary check.
Yes — traffic recovery is a regular engagement. We diagnose what broke (usually redirects, templates, checkout integrations or content loss) and rebuild systematically.
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