AI SEO Migration Plan
Transition your website from a legacy keyword-focused strategy to a modern, future-proof AI SEO framework. This guide provides a clear, phase-based plan for a successful migration.
Your Migration Roadmap
Follow this four-phase process to systematically evolve your SEO efforts and align with how modern AI search engines work.
Audit & Benchmark
Understand your starting point.
Restructure for Topics
Build content clusters.
Optimize & Enhance
Upgrade content and schema.
Measure & Iterate
Track new KPIs and refine.
Audit & Benchmark
Before making changes, you need a clear picture of your current state. This involves both a content and technical audit from an AI perspective.
- Content Audit: Group existing content by topic, not just keywords. Identify your strongest pages and your "thin" content.
- Entity Audit: Identify the core entities (products, services, people) your business represents. How clearly are they defined on your site?
- Technical Benchmark: Check your site's crawlability, structured data implementation (or lack thereof), and Core Web Vitals.
Restructure for Topical Authority
Shift your site architecture from a flat list of blog posts to an interconnected web of expertise. This is the core of building topical authority.
- Plan Pillar Pages: For each core topic, designate or create a comprehensive "pillar" page that provides a broad overview.
- Create Topic Clusters: Group related articles around each pillar page. These "cluster" pages should cover sub-topics in-depth.
- Strategize Internal Linking: Ensure all cluster pages link up to their pillar page, and link to each other where relevant, using descriptive anchor text.
Optimize & Enhance Content
With your new structure in place, it's time to upgrade your actual content to meet AI quality standards.
- Enrich Content: Update your most important pages with new information, expert quotes, original data, and helpful images or videos.
- Strengthen E-E-A-T: Add clear author bios, cite sources, and ensure your contact information is easy to find.
- Implement Granular Schema: Go beyond basic schema. Use `FAQPage`, `HowTo`, `VideoObject`, and other specific types to precisely describe your content.
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