Move off WordPress or Squarespace into an AI-ready website
AI website migration with AIPress: we move your existing site while rankings, analytics and lead capture stay in the plan. Your current site keeps serving until you approve the switch.
What the migration includes
You are hiring AIPress to move a site that already earns traffic or leads. The engagement is the inventory, the rebuild, and the three checks below.
Public content
Pages, posts, and media AIPress can read from the current site. Anything that is not on a public URL is listed in the scope before launch.
Rankings plan
A URL map, a metadata review, and permanent redirects only where a URL must change. Stable URLs stay stable.
Analytics and leads
The GA4 property, the Search Console property, and the forms, calls, and chats you rely on, named and retested before cutover.
Your approval first
The current site keeps serving until you approve the switch.
How an AIPress migration runs
Five steps, with your approval before the live site changes. Timelines depend on the site and are set in the proposal, not as a single promise on this page.
- 1
Conversation
Tell us about the site on the contact page. Timing depends on the site and is set in the proposal, not as a single promise on this page.
- 2
Inventory
AIPress reads the public site and lists URLs, the measurement properties you use, and the lead paths that have to survive.
- 3
Map and build
The new templates and the redirect map are prepared while the current site stays up. Unchanged URLs are not rewritten for sport.
- 4
Review
You check pages, required lead paths, and the measurement plan before anything replaces the live site.
- 5
Launch and watch
Cutover happens after that approval. The new sitemap is submitted, and Search Console plus analytics are watched on the old and new URLs.
Tick through the eight checks for rankings, analytics, and leads. Progress stays in this browser. The GA4 clicks, the SEO task list, and the preview sign-off stay on the guides further down the page.
Rankings, analytics, and leads
Track your progress
Progress is saved in this browser until you clear site data.
DIY, a typical agency, or AIPress
The difference is who does the work. A typical agency means a project under that firm’s proposal, not a survey of the market.
Who runs the migration: do it yourself, a typical agency project, or AIPress.
Best fit
Aipress.io AI migration
A team that wants AIPress to run the move and to approve it before the live site changes.
Do it yourself
A team that will run the URL map, the redirects, and the retests itself.
A typical agency project
A team that wants a vendor statement of work and will confirm SEO, analytics, and forms are in it.
Rankings
Aipress.io AI migration
URL mapping, metadata review, and permanent redirects are in the migration. Rankings can still fluctuate while Google recrawls.
Do it yourself
You own the URL map and the Search Console checks.
A typical agency project
In the project when the statement of work says so.
Analytics
Aipress.io AI migration
GA4, Search Console, and lead events are named and retested before cutover. The procedure stays on the analytics plan.
Do it yourself
You reinstall tags and retest events.
A typical agency project
Often scoped as its own line in the proposal.
Leads
Aipress.io AI migration
Each public lead path you mark as required is confirmed on the new templates before launch.
Do it yourself
You retest every form, call, and chat path.
A typical agency project
Included when the contract lists those paths.
How it starts
Aipress.io AI migration
Start on the contact page. The scope is set in the proposal.
Do it yourself
Your own stack and calendar.
A typical agency project
That agency’s proposal.
Price
Aipress.io AI migration
Quoted for your site. This page does not list a price.
Do it yourself
Your time and your tools. No fee is listed here.
A typical agency project
The figure in that proposal. No fee is listed here.
| Do it yourself | A typical agency project | Aipress.io AI migration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best fit | A team that will run the URL map, the redirects, and the retests itself. | A team that wants a vendor statement of work and will confirm SEO, analytics, and forms are in it. | A team that wants AIPress to run the move and to approve it before the live site changes. |
| Rankings | You own the URL map and the Search Console checks. | In the project when the statement of work says so. | URL mapping, metadata review, and permanent redirects are in the migration. Rankings can still fluctuate while Google recrawls. |
| Analytics | You reinstall tags and retest events. | Often scoped as its own line in the proposal. | GA4, Search Console, and lead events are named and retested before cutover. The procedure stays on the analytics plan. |
| Leads | You retest every form, call, and chat path. | Included when the contract lists those paths. | Each public lead path you mark as required is confirmed on the new templates before launch. |
| How it starts | Your own stack and calendar. | That agency’s proposal. | Start on the contact page. The scope is set in the proposal. |
| Price | Your time and your tools. No fee is listed here. | The figure in that proposal. No fee is listed here. | Quoted for your site. This page does not list a price. |
What you are hiring
AIPress sells a done-for-you website migration. The engagement reads the site you already have, rebuilds it, and does not replace the live domain until you approve the switch. Rankings, analytics, and leads are the three checks that decide whether the move is ready. A faster template and later content workflows are reasons teams move. They are not a substitute for those three checks.
The read depends on what the current platform exposes. On WordPress, AIPress can use the public REST API when it is available, including posts, pages, media, and custom post types that API returns. When the site is not WordPress, or that API is closed, the read uses the public pages. Content that never appears on a public URL is listed in the scope. It is not described as transferred until someone has confirmed it. The current site is not edited as part of that read.
You stay in the approval seat. AIPress prepares the URL map, the new templates, and the lead-path check. You decide when visitors should get the new site. This service page was updated on October 26, 2026.
A large WordPress archive is a mapping job. Public posts, pages, and media that the current site exposes are listed. Each important URL either stays, gets a permanent redirect to its own new address, or is retired with a 404 or 410. Drafts, private fields, and membership areas that the public read cannot see are named in the scope. They are not described as moved until that scope says so.
Who should hire the move
Hire this when the site already has URLs you cannot afford to orphan: service pages, articles, location pages, or a public catalog Google already knows.
Skip this purchase when the site is new and has no URLs to protect. That is a build. Skip it when the only job is exporting a URL list or rebuilding one GA4 event. Those procedures live on the guides below, and a team that wants to run them in-house should use the guides. Hire the service on this page when you want AIPress to run the move and you want a person to approve it before the switch.
How rankings are handled
Google’s site-move guide for URL changes is more cautious than a slogan about zero SEO loss. A significant change to a site can bring temporary ranking fluctuation while Google recrawls and reindexes. For a medium-sized site, Google says it can take a few weeks or more before the new URLs start to replace the old ones in results, and longer when the site is large. The speed of that process depends on how many URLs you have and how fast the server can be crawled. AIPress does not publish a ranking-lift percentage, and this page will not invent one.
The practical controls match this engagement. AIPress keeps the same domain. URLs that can stay, stay, and the new templates are part of that same move. The current site keeps serving until you approve the switch. When the addresses visitors use do not change, Google’s site move with no URL changes is the relevant guide. That document is about a hosting, CDN, or infrastructure change that leaves the addresses visitors type the same. It is not a CMS-migration how-to, and this page does not treat it as one. The steps it names are to prepare and test the copy, switch hosting, monitor the old and new hosting, then shut the old hosting down. A domain change is a separate move under Google’s site-move guide for URL changes. Keep a URL the same when the page is the same. When a URL must change, use a server-side permanent redirect, such as a 301 or 308, straight to the final URL. Google says permanent redirects do not cause a loss in PageRank, and it recommends keeping redirect chains short, ideally no more than three hops. It also says to keep redirects in place for as long as possible, generally at least a year, so signals have time to transfer. Redirecting many old URLs to one irrelevant page, such as the new homepage, can be treated as a soft 404. The map is built to avoid that pattern.
Search Console is part of the launch. Google tells site owners to monitor the old and new URLs, submit the new sitemap, and use URL Inspection to test individual URLs. Change of Address in Search Console applies when the domain or subdomain changes. It is not required for a path change on the same domain. The task-level SEO list for this work is the website migration SEO checklist. This page does not repeat those tasks. It is the agreement that the map, the redirects, and the monitoring are in the engagement.
Core Web Vitals sit in a narrower box. Google’s page-experience documentation says Core Web Vitals are used by ranking systems, and that a good score does not guarantee top rankings. There is no single page-experience signal. Other page-experience aspects do not directly raise rankings. A faster site is a reason to prefer the new build for visitors. It is not a promise that positions will rise, and it is not a reason to rewrite every title during the same launch.
How analytics and leads are handled
Analytics continuity means the business can still answer the same questions after launch: which pages drew organic visits, which actions counted as leads, and whether those actions still arrive. Google’s site-move guide says to use web analytics on both the old and new URLs, alongside Search Console. The property names, the events you treat as leads, and the Search Console verification method are written down before cutover. They are retested on the new templates before DNS changes. Creating a brand-new reporting setup on launch day makes the before-and-after comparison harder, so the default is to preserve the measurement you already trust and to document any deliberate change.
The click-by-click work for GA4 events, key events, and Search Console lives in the AI website migration analytics plan. That guide owns the how-to. When that plan is finished depends on the site and is set in the proposal, not as a single date on this page.
Leads are the third check. A form, a click-to-call link, and a chat widget count only if they still reach the inbox or CRM you already use. The engagement lists those paths from the current site and confirms the ones you mark as required on the new templates. AIPress does not publish a conversion-rate lift for that check. The check is whether the lead arrived. Launch waits on the paths you marked as required. Page-speed opinions do not replace that test.
What the three guides own
Three articles sit next to this service. Each one answers a different question. None of them replaces hiring the move, and this page does not absorb their steps.
AI website migration analytics plan
The GA4 and Search Console how-to: what to inventory, which events to preserve, and how to tell whether reporting survived. Read it when you want the measurement procedure.
Read the guideWebsite migration SEO checklist
The rankings task list: URL exports, redirect maps, metadata, sitemaps, and the watch after launch. Read it when you want the SEO checklist in full.
Read the guideWebsite migration preview checklist
The review you do before you approve a staging or homepage review. It separates what a preview proves from what it does not.
Read the guideUse the guides to judge the work. Use this page to hire it. The checklist above is the short commercial version of the same three themes: rankings, analytics, and leads. The guides remain the operating detail.
What this engagement will not promise
The conversation starts on the contact page. Timing depends on the site and is set in the proposal. This page does not name a single delivery date. When you are still choosing a platform, the WordPress alternatives for SEO page is the comparison. When you need a new site rather than a move of the one you have, start at AI websites. The wider product sits on the AIPress home page.
AIPress will not promise that rankings hold still. Google’s guide says fluctuation during a move is normal. A fixed percentage gain, a single timeline for every site, or a claim of zero SEO loss is outside what this service says. Backlinks are handled the same way as any other URL signal: unchanged URLs keep their addresses, and changed URLs rely on the permanent redirects in the map, which Google says do not drop PageRank. That is a mechanism, not a forecast of traffic.
Migration by industry
Each page below is the same move, with the URLs and lead paths that matter in that field. They link back here.
AI Website Migration for Law Firms
LegalPractice, attorney, and location URLs, with inquiry forms in the lead check.
AI Website Migration for Plumbers
Home ServicesService and city pages, plus the click-to-call path, checked before the domain switches.
AI Website Migration for Restoration Companies
RestorationEmergency service pages and the call path, kept in the plan through cutover.
AI Website Migration for SaaS
SaaSPublic product, docs, and pricing URLs. The application behind the login is a separate scope.
AI Website Migration for Ecommerce
EcommercePublic category and product URLs. Checkout and payment behavior are confirmed before launch.
AI Website Migration for Financial Advisors
Financial ServicesAdvisor and service pages carried as published. The migration is not a compliance certification.
AI Website Migration for Realtors
Real EstateCommunity and listing URLs, with inquiry forms confirmed before launch.
Frequently asked questions
We have hundreds of WordPress posts, do they all move?
The public posts move by URL map, not by sending the whole archive to the new homepage. Google’s site-move guide says to map the important URLs, return 404 or 410 for retired ones, and not to send many old URLs to one irrelevant URL such as the homepage. A single redirect is fine when several pages were consolidated into that page. Posts that are not on a public URL stay out of the transfer until the scope lists them.
Will my rankings stay exactly where they are?
AIPress does not promise that. The section How rankings are handled covers temporary fluctuation, permanent redirects, and what this engagement will not guarantee.
What happens to analytics and leads?
They are named and retested before the live site changes. The section How analytics and leads are handled covers the GA4 property, Search Console, and the forms, calls, and chats you rely on.
Do you edit my current site while the new one is built?
AIPress reads the current site. The live site keeps serving until you approve the switch. On WordPress, the read can use the public REST API when it is available. Other sites are read from their public pages. Content that is not available to that read is scoped before anyone treats it as included.
Which platforms can you move?
WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, and other builders whose public pages can be read. A new site with no URLs to protect is a build, not a migration. Checkout, payment, and other behavior that is not on a public content URL is confirmed in the scope.
How do I start, and what does it cost?
Start on the contact page. Timing depends on the site and is set in the proposal, not as a single date on this page. A migration price is quoted for the site. This page does not list one.
Ready to scope the move?
Tell us about the site. Timing depends on the site and is set in the proposal, not as a single promise on this page.