Senior SEO Migration Specialist (WordPress → Shopify) | Preserve 25 Years of SEO Authority

Budget: Fixed Price Only (No Hourly)  Project Type: High-level SEO migration planning and implementation  Experience Required: Expert / Enterprise Level About Us We are a 56-year-old direct-to-consumer guitar company with over 25 years of SEO history, hundreds of thousands of customers, thousands of indexed pages, extensive backlink authority, and a significant organic search presence. Our current website is built on WordPress/WooCommerce. Due to increasing technical complexity and operational concerns, we are exploring a migration to Shopify. This project is not a standard website redesign. Our primary objective is preserving and transferring 25 years of accumulated SEO authority, rankings, backlinks, indexed content, and organic traffic while creating a contingency migration plan that can be executed if necessary. We are looking for a true expert who has personally completed multiple large-scale WordPress-to-Shopify migrations without significant organic traffic loss. Important This is a fixed-price project only. We are not interested in hourly billing, retainers, junior developers, agencies assigning work to interns, or consultants who learn on the job. We want one highly experienced individual who will personally perform the work. Project Goals Phase 1: Complete SEO Audit of Existing WordPress Site Perform a complete inventory of: * All indexed URLs * Product pages * Category pages * Blog posts * Landing pages * Artist pages * Educational pages * Comparison pages * Internal linking structure * Existing redirects * Structured data/schema * Meta titles/descriptions * Image assets * Canonicals * XML sitemaps * Backlink profile * Google Search Console data * Existing keyword rankings Phase 2: Shopify Migration Blueprint Develop a complete migration strategy including: * URL preservation strategy * Redirect mapping * Collection architecture * Product architecture * Blog migration plan * Schema migration * Internal linking preservation * Canonical strategy * Structured data implementation * Navigation architecture * Image optimization strategy * Sitemap strategy * Search Console migration strategy Phase 3: Build Migration Environment Build a fully functioning Shopify version of the site that: * Preserves existing SEO equity * Preserves URL structure wherever possible * Preserves content hierarchy * Preserves internal linking * Preserves structured data * Preserves organic search performance Phase 4: Pre-Launch Validation Perform: * Full crawl analysis * Redirect validation * Technical SEO audit * Duplicate content analysis * Schema validation * Internal link validation * Backlink preservation analysis * Crawl budget analysis * Indexation analysis Requirements You MUST have personally completed: * Multiple WordPress → Shopify migrations * Migrations involving 10,000+ indexed pages OR enterprise ecommerce brands * Migrations where organic traffic was preserved successfully * Technical SEO implementations at an advanced level You MUST be highly experienced with: * Shopify * WordPress/WooCommerce * Google Search Console * Google Analytics * GA4 * Screaming Frog * Ahrefs * SEMrush * Structured data/schema * Redirect architecture * Crawl budget optimization * Canonicalization * Internal link architecture * Enterprise ecommerce SEO When Applying Please provide: 1. Three WordPress → Shopify migrations you personally completed. 2. Approximate size of each site. 3. Organic traffic before migration. 4. Organic traffic after migration. 5. Percentage of rankings retained. 6. Time required for the migration. 7. Your proposed fixed fee. 8. What you believe are the biggest risks when migrating a 25-year-old ecommerce website to Shopify. Important We are not looking for: * Agencies * Teams * Junior developers * General SEO consultants * Shopify designers * PPC agencies * Link builders We are looking for one person who has successfully executed this exact type of migration before. This project may lead to a long-term consulting relationship if successful.