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Moving from GoDaddy

How a move off GoDaddy's website builder works: your domain and email kept working, your content brought across, and the builder closed once the new site is live.

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What comes with you

Leaving GoDaddy's builder, piece by piece. What moves, and what doesn't.

Stays on GoDaddy

The builder, its generated layout and the add-ons bundled with it.

  • The website builder
  • The generated layout
  • Stock photos and suggested text
  • Builder add-ons
  • The builder plan, once cancelled

Comes with you

Your domain and email, your words and photos, your customers and your rankings.

  • Your domain, kept or moved
  • Your email, working throughout
  • Your own words and photos
  • Contacts and products, where the plan exports them
  • Your rankings, through redirects

How the move runs

Moving off GoDaddy, step by step. From the first call to the weeks after.

Your GoDaddy site stays live until the day we switch.

Nothing goes dark while the new site is built, and nothing is cancelled until it's live.

  1. 01Take stockEvery page, form, appointment type and add-on, listed.
  2. 02Save what you canContacts and products exported where the plan allows; the rest copied by hand.
  3. 03Plan the new siteA page map built around your customers, not the generated layout.
  4. 04Design and buildYour new site, designed and built in code, on a private link.
  5. 05Bring the content acrossYour words and photos in, the stock content out.
  6. 06Map every addressEvery page on the builder site matched to its new page.
  7. 07Switch the domainOnly the website's records changed, so email never stops.
  8. 08Watch the weeks afterSearch Console and forms checked; the builder and add-ons cancelled last.

What's different about leaving GoDaddy

The catches, and how we handle them. Specific to GoDaddy.

No export

The builder site can't be exported, so it's rebuilt and the content copied across.

One account for everything

Domain, email and site together; we change only the website's records.

Email that must keep working

Professional Email or Microsoft 365 from GoDaddy keeps running through the switch.

Stock content

Generated words and stock photos replaced with your own.

Add-ons to cancel

Builder extras that only made sense with the old site, ended after the switch.

Appointments

Upcoming appointments saved, and booking moved to the new site.

Renewals

Cancelled at the right time, so you're not billed for a site you no longer use.

The domain can stay

It can stay at GoDaddy; it only needs to point somewhere new.

Keeping your rankings

How your search rankings come with you. The checklist we work through.

Rankings move with the pages, as long as every page has somewhere to go.

Search engines know your GoDaddy site by its addresses. Each one is mapped to its new page before the switch.

  • Every old address mappedEvery page on the builder site matched to a new page.
  • Permanent redirectsEach old page sends visitors and search engines to its new one.
  • Titles and descriptions carriedThe words search results show, kept or improved.
  • Structured data addedYour business, services and reviews, in the form search engines read.
  • A new sitemapSubmitted to Google and Bing the day the site goes live.
  • Search Console watchedErrors and missing pages caught in the weeks after the switch.
  • Your Business Profile linkedThe website link on your Google Business Profile updated.
  • Load time checkedPages tested on phones before launch, so the new site starts ahead.

Moving from GoDaddy, explained

Everything to know before you leave GoDaddy's builder. In plain English.

Why businesses leave GoDaddy's builder

Most GoDaddy builder sites were made in a hurry to get something online, and they did that job. Then the business grew and the site didn't: one or two pages, stock photos, no real booking, and a bill that grew at renewal.

Leaving is simpler than it looks, because the parts that matter most, your domain and email, can stay exactly where they are.

Your domain and email stay put

The domain doesn't have to move. Pointing it at the new site means changing a couple of records in your GoDaddy account and leaving the email records alone, so Professional Email or Microsoft 365 keeps working without a pause.

If you'd rather move the domain to a registrar in your own name, we can do that too, after the switch.

What can come across

The builder has no export, so the site itself is rebuilt. Your words and photos come across, contacts and products are exported where the plan allows, and the stock text and photos are replaced with your own.

The day of the switch

The new site is checked on a private link. On the day, the website's records are pointed at it with the redirects in place, and the builder waits in the background until everything is confirmed.

The weeks after

We watch Search Console, test forms and bookings, resubmit the sitemap, and once it has all settled, cancel the builder plan and its add-ons, leaving your domain and email exactly as they were.

  • Search Console watched
  • Email checked
  • Builder cancelled last

Questions and answers

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  • Yes. We change only the records the website uses and leave the email records alone, so mail keeps arriving through the switch.

  • No. It can stay at GoDaddy and point to the new site. If you'd like it at a registrar in your own name, we can move it later.

  • No. The builder doesn't export sites, so we rebuild it and copy your content across. Contacts and products can be exported where the plan allows.

  • Only the website builder and its add-ons, after the new site is live. Your domain and email stay unless you choose to move them.

  • No. Your GoDaddy site stays live while the new one is built, and the switch takes minutes once it's ready. Visitors go from one to the other without a gap.

  • Not if every old address is redirected to its new page, which we set up before the switch. Rankings usually hold through the move, and often improve once the new pages settle in.

  • The move is part of building the new site: a fixed project price agreed before anything starts, then one monthly fee to host and look after it. You keep paying GoDaddy only until the switch.

Kind words

Hear it from the businesses we've built for. What it's like to work with us, in their own words.

“Our new website and ads brought in more customers than we expected. Stratasis made the whole thing easy from start to finish.”
Anna BorowskaOwner, Apex Windows
“They took our whole website from idea to launch, online booking included, and never made it feel complicated.”
Elizabeth MarkowskiOwner, Virelle
“Everything was built around how we actually work, with the compliance side looked after from the first day.”
Daniel ZhaoFounder, Pelagion
“One team for the brand, the site and the ads. It finally feels like one business online.”
Mark SullivanDirector, Harbor
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