The Redesign Went Beautifully — And Then Your Traffic Fell Off a Cliff Nine out of ten website redesigns damage SEO rankings, and the cause is almost never the new design itself — it's the absence of a controlled migration process treating the change as a structural event search engines must be guided through.
There's a particular kind of dread that sets in about ten days after a website relaunch, when someone on the marketing team opens Google Search...