Redesigning a PI Website Without Losing Your Rankings: The Preservation Protocol
A website redesign is the most dangerous purchase a personal injury firm makes, and almost nobody involved in selling one says so. The danger is not the new design. It is what the project quietly does to the site's accumulated history: the URLs, the links, the structures that years of visibility were built on, all of it movable, all of it droppable, none of it visible in the mockups the partners approve. This piece is the preservation protocol: why redesigns tank traffic, what the machinery actually tracks, and the sequence that lets a firm get a new site without donating its history to the void. Why redesigns tank traffic: the identity problem To the systems that decide your visibility, your site is not a brand. It is a set of documents, each with an identity, a history, and an accumulated record: what links to it, what it has been about, how it has behaved over time. The patent record is blunt about how literal this is. Google's document-identification patents, US 9411889...