HubSpot Website Migration Checklist
You've spent years earning your search rankings, and a website migration is when they're easiest to lose. A URL changes with no redirect, a page with backlinks gets deleted, or a new theme drops the internal links Google relied on, and organic traffic slips in the weeks after launch. This guide shows you how to move your site onto HubSpot and keep that traffic, with 84 checks from the first crawl through post-launch monitoring and a plain-language breakdown of the nine issues behind traffic loss.
What You’ll Find Inside
Launch your new HubSpot site without losing the search traffic you’ve already earned. This guide covers nine migration risks that can lead to traffic loss, with examples from real client projects, an 84-point checklist across eight phases from discovery to post-launch monitoring, current HubSpot settings for redirects, canonicals, and tracking code, and the process our team uses to manage large-scale migrations.
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Will moving my website to HubSpot affect my search rankings?
Your rankings carry over when every changed URL is redirected, and your metadata, internal links, and tracking move with the site, but Google notes rankings can fluctuate for a few weeks during any site move.
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What causes traffic loss after a website migration?
Traffic loss usually comes from changed URLs with no redirect, deleted pages that still had backlinks, internal links dropped by a new theme, and canonical or noindex tags pointing search engines the wrong way.
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Will my website go offline during the migration?
Your current site stays live while the new one is built and previewed in HubSpot, and the switch happens when you connect your domain and update its DNS records, so a well-planned cutover keeps interruptions brief.
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Can I keep my existing URLs when I move to HubSpot?
In many cases, yes, since you set the URL for each page and blog post in HubSpot, and any URL that stays the same needs no redirect.
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How long does it take for search traffic to settle after a migration?
Google says most pages on a small to medium-sized site move in its index within a few weeks, and larger sites take longer.
- Marketing and web teams moving a website to HubSpot CMS from WordPress, Webflow, or another platform
- Teams rebuilding, rebranding, or restructuring a site that already runs on HubSpot
- SEO and content leads responsible for protecting organic traffic and rankings
- Teams with large blog libraries or multilingual sites
- Leaders who need a clear risk list before approving a migration
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