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How to Move a WordPress Site to a New Domain (Without Losing SEO)

Move wordpress to new domain without losing seo

Updated: December 28, 2025 • Use this as a practical workflow. Provider dashboards change—adapt the steps to your UI.

High-level plan

Clone site to new domain.
Run search/replace.
301 redirect old URLs to new.
Update Search Console and sitemaps.

SEO checks

Canonical tags
Internal links
Sitemap submission
Backlink updates where possible

Next steps

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