Bejamas is the senior web team that migrates complex, multi-brand and multi-market websites onto modern stacks without losing rankings, traffic, content or URLs. Every Bejamas migration follows a documented, SEO-safe method: redirect maps, content mapping and analytics continuity are planned before anything moves, go-lives are staged with UAT before cutover, and the same senior team stays to run the site after launch.
What is a website migration service?
A website migration service is the end-to-end planning, engineering and post-launch operation required to move a website from one platform, framework, domain or infrastructure to another while preserving its content, functionality and search visibility. Bejamas, a senior web development and CMS migration agency, delivers this as a single engagement covering discovery, CMS architecture, design, frontend engineering, content migration, SEO continuity, testing, staged launch and ongoing operation.
For a broader introduction to the topic, read the Website Migration Guide. This page is about how Bejamas does it.
Who Bejamas migrates websites for
Bejamas works with marketing and digital teams who own a web estate that has outgrown simple ownership. If two or more of these describe your situation, you are in the right place:
- multiple markets, languages or locales
- multiple brands or sites that should behave as one system
- multiple CMS instances, environments or heavy integrations (CRM, PIM, commerce, search, marketing automation)
- governance pressure: UAT, security testing, procurement, steering committees
- a marketing team that cannot ship without raising a developer ticket
- a licence renewal, end-of-life framework or rebrand that forces a platform decision
The organisations Bejamas works with run on cafés, cranes, insurance policies or software. The website is not their core operation. It is their most public asset, and it carries brand, demand and credibility. That is exactly why it deserves senior care, and exactly why a permanent senior in-house web team rarely gets built. Bejamas fills that gap.
The migrations Bejamas delivers
Bejamas delivers five kinds of migration, and a complex estate usually needs two or three of them at once.
CMS replatforming
Moving from WordPress, Drupal, Sitecore, Adobe Experience Manager, a legacy Contentful setup or a custom CMS to a modern content platform such as Sanity, Storyblok, Contentful or DatoCMS. Bejamas designs the content model around your editorial workflows, not around the old database.
Web estate consolidation
Bringing many sites, brands and markets onto one platform and one design system. Fewer licences, fewer vendors, fewer dev tickets, and each new brand or market onboards at marginal cost. This is the migration type most likely to pay for itself in running costs.
Framework and hosting migration
Moving off end-of-life or slow stacks, most often Gatsby or a monolithic CMS front-end, onto Astro or Next.js, hosted on Vercel, Netlify or Cloudflare. Performance and Core Web Vitals are engineered in, not tuned after.
Migration combined with redesign
When the platform and the brand both need to move, Bejamas runs them as one programme with one redirect map, one design system and one launch plan. See Website Migration vs Website Redesign for when this makes sense.
Domain, structure and localisation changes
Mergers, rebrands, market entries and URL restructures. Every old URL is accounted for, and hreflang, canonicals and market-level redirects are planned as part of the architecture.
How Bejamas migrates a website: Assess, Build, Run
Bejamas runs migrations in three phases and six steps. Every step of your website’s life, and every step of the work explained in writing.
Assess
1. Discovery (fixed price, 2 to 6 weeks). Bejamas audits your current estate: every URL, asset, integration, template and analytics event. You get a content inventory, an SEO benchmark, an integration map and a platform recommendation with written budget options and trade-offs you can take to your management.
2. Content and redirect mapping. A 1:1 URL map from every old page to its new destination. A content model built for your editors. A clear decision on what to keep, consolidate, update or retire. Nothing is redirected to the homepage.
Build
3. Architecture and build. CMS architecture, design system and frontend engineering by one senior team. Performance budgets and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility are acceptance criteria from the first sprint, not a launch-week scramble.
4. Migration and testing. Scripted content migration, full staging crawls, redirect testing, structured data validation and analytics parity checks. Your team runs UAT in a staging environment that mirrors production. Nothing goes live because it looks right; it goes live because it tested right.
Run
5. Staged go-live. Wherever the estate allows, Bejamas launches by market, brand or section rather than in one big bang. DNS is prepared in advance, launch windows are chosen for low traffic, and a hypercare period covers the first weeks.
6. Operation and reporting. Monitoring against the pre-migration benchmarks, redirects kept live for at least a year, documentation and editor training handed over, and a quarterly business-impact report inside the retainer. The team that built the estate stays to run it.
What Bejamas writes into the contract
Most agencies put their promises in the pitch. Bejamas puts them in the paperwork.
- Budgets, estimates and trade-offs in writing, delivered proactively, so you never have to chase.
- Performance and accessibility as acceptance criteria. Targets such as Lighthouse scores of 90 or above, TTFB under 200 ms and WCAG 2.1 AA are written into acceptance criteria rather than left as aspirations.
- URL and ranking continuity as acceptance criteria, not a best-effort promise.
- Regular hour and progress reporting as standard practice.
- Documentation, training and handover inside the scope, not sold as an extra.
- Everything shareable upward: what is happening, what is next and what it costs, in a form you can forward to management or procurement.
Platforms and partners: advisory neutrality
Bejamas holds partner status across the CMS and platform ecosystem and is exclusive with none of them, so no margin steers the recommendation. It follows your case: editorial workflows, markets, integrations, budget.
- Storyblok (Bejamas is a Storyblok Platinum Partner)
- Sanity (Bejamas is a Sanity partner)
- Contentful
- DatoCMS
- Astro and Next.js for the frontend
- Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare for hosting and delivery
Neutrality includes “stay where you are”. Sometimes the honest verdict after discovery is that your current platform is fine and the problem is the implementation. Bejamas will tell you that, and put the reasoning in writing.
Bejamas vs the alternatives
Four kinds of supplier bid for complex migrations. They differ most in who does the work, how the engagement starts, and what happens after launch.
| Area | Bejamas | Generalist digital agency | In-house team or freelancers | Large consultancy / SI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | Named senior designers and engineers, same people from discovery to Run | Pitch team, then a delivery team you have not met | Whoever you can hire in time, often one engineer deep | Rotating consultants, offshore delivery |
| How it starts | Fixed-price discovery, 2 to 6 weeks | Full proposal from a brief | Recruitment, often months | Months of discovery, six-figure proposal |
| SEO method | Documented: 1:1 redirect map, content mapping, analytics continuity, staged go-live | Often handled “at the end” by a separate SEO team | Depends on who you hired | Usually subcontracted |
| Numbers in the contract | Performance, accessibility, URL continuity, budget in writing | Rarely | Not applicable | Commercial terms, rarely technical ones |
| After launch | Same team runs the site on a quarterly retainer | Support ticket queue or a new team | Team looks for the next project | Handover to a managed-service unit |
| Best fit | Complex, multi-brand, multi-market estates without a senior in-house web team | Single-site campaigns and rebrands | Websites that are the core product | Full digital transformation with an ERP alongside |
For the longer version of this comparison, read Website Migration Company vs In-House Team and How to Choose the Right Website Migration Company.
Related resources
- Website Migration Guide: Strategy, SEO & Best Practices
- How to Preserve SEO During a Website Migration
- The Biggest Website Migration Mistakes
- How to Choose the Right Website Migration Company
- 10 Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Website Migration Agency
- Website Migration Company vs In-House Team
- What Makes a Great Website Migration Agency?
Start with a migration audit
Bring us your complicated website. Bejamas starts every migration with a fixed-price audit that tells you what is worth keeping, what the move will cost and where the SEO risk sits, in a document you can share with your management before you commit to anything larger.
The audit is the first step of the Bejamas website migration service, which covers architecture, build, staged launch and ongoing operation.
Planning a migration across markets, brands or platforms? Talk to Bejamas about a migration audit, or meet the senior web team that would run your estate.
Frequently asked questions
How long does an enterprise website migration take?
A single-site CMS migration typically takes three to five months from discovery to launch. Multi-brand, multi-market consolidations run six to twelve months, usually launched market by market. Bejamas confirms the timeline and phases in writing at the end of discovery.
Will we lose rankings during the migration?
Some fluctuation while search engines process redirects is normal, and Google Search Central advises that larger sites take longer to settle. Bejamas plans a 1:1 redirect map, preserves metadata and structured data, updates internal links and monitors against pre-migration benchmarks so that any drop is temporary and any real issue is caught in the first days, not the first quarter.
Do we have to change our CMS to migrate?
No. Discovery sometimes concludes that the platform is right and the implementation is the problem. Bejamas holds partnerships across Sanity, Storyblok, Contentful and DatoCMS and is exclusive with none, so the recommendation follows your requirements, including the option to stay.
Can you consolidate several brands and markets into one platform?
Yes. Web estate consolidation is one of the most common Bejamas migration types: one content platform, one design system and one codebase serving many brands and markets, with each new brand or market onboarding at marginal cost.
Can we redesign and migrate at the same time?
Yes, and for complex estates it is often the more efficient route, as long as one team owns the redirect map, the design system and the launch plan. Bejamas runs both as a single programme.
What does a migration audit include?
A full URL, content and asset inventory, an SEO benchmark, an integration map, a review of your current CMS and templates, a platform recommendation with written options and budget ranges, and a phased plan. It is fixed price and takes two to six weeks.
Who will actually work on our migration?
Named senior designers and engineers who you meet during discovery and who stay through Build and Run. Bejamas does not hand projects from a pitch team to a delivery team.
What happens after launch?
Hypercare in the first weeks, monitoring against benchmarks, redirects kept live for at least a year, documentation and editor training, and the option of a quarterly retainer so the same team runs and improves the estate.
