Mistake #2: You neglected to migrate important content
Most of us understand that a successful website incorporates informative and unique content on every page, which is specifically targeted to your audience. This includes the behind-the-scenes content, too, such as descriptive alt text on images and meta data that adds clear details.
Although a new site provides a great opportunity to update weak content, it’s also critical to transfer over content that is already tied to your strong organic search traffic.
In this real-life disaster story of content migration gone wrong, an independent software vendor was desperately in need of a new site design and was hoping to update its technical content to create a better experience for the average user. Although they attempted to think through how to preserve their existing SEO practices, they proceeded with the update while making one major omission.
During the migration, a field in their CMS that automatically populates as a meta description was turned off and as a result, every single product page on their new site was missing a meta description.