SEO/GEO Specialist for Shopify Domain Migration + Long-Term AI Search Growth

We're an Australian e-commerce brand selling outdoor and solar lighting, moving into the broader home living category. We run a single Shopify storefront (.com.au, AUD): roughly 120 products, 40 collections and 40 blog posts. Australia is our primary market today. What we need We're relocating to a new primary domain —.com — and rebranding from "lighting" to "outdoor living". We're looking for one search partner to own that migration and then stay on for the long-term SEO / GEO / AEO program. This is not a one-off audit; we want a multi-month relationship with someone who will still be accountable in month six. Phase 1 — SEO-safe domain migration (highest priority): - Pre-migration audit: what must be fixed before the switch vs. after - Full URL mapping and 301 redirect strategy, including paginated, filtered, parameterised and legacy URLs - Metadata, schema and content migration; sitemaps, robots.txt, canonicals, internal links - Staging QA including checkout and forms, cross-device - A risk register and a rollback plan, with clear trigger conditions Launch-day and launch-week checklist with named owners across you, our developer and our team - Post-launch monitoring of indexation, crawl errors, rankings and traffic Phase 2 — Ongoing SEO / GEO / AEO (monthly): - Rebuilding collection architecture and the keyword map for the expanded category, without cannibalising existing lighting pages Product and collection page optimisation; content clusters and briefs for our writers - Entity and schema work so search engines and AI systems understand the brand - Getting cited in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Perplexity: answer-first content structure, llms.txt, agentic discovery, citation and mention building - Tracking AI visibility alongside classic rankings; monthly reporting we can act on - Ongoing technical maintenance and a prioritised action list. You're a good fit if you have： - Demonstrable Shopify technical SEO experience - At least one completed domain migration you can show us, with 3 months of post-launch data， that would be good; - Real GEO/AEO work with measurable outcomes, not just a service list - Clear written English and a habit of prioritising ruthlessly How to apply!! Skip the templates — we won't read them. Please include: 1. Your completed migration case study, with before/after data. 2. Two or three sentences on how you'd protect our Australian geo-signals when moving from .com.au to .com, and what you'd configure in Search Console. 3. How you'd shorten the period where LLMs keep citing our old domain, and how you'd measure recovery. 4. How many contracts you're running in parallel right now, and the hours you can commit during launch week. 5. Your quote: the scoping/audit stage, the migration engagement, and your recommended monthly retainer. Tell us if you think our scope is wrong.