Migration guide
Migrate Your Link Management Without Breaking Campaigns
A link migration is a continuity project. Inventory what is still live, protect the domains and redirects audiences already use, move high-value assets in controlled waves, and preserve enough context for teams to operate them afterward.
At a glance
Key takeaways
Inventory and classify live assets before importing anything.
Domain and redirect continuity are the centre of the migration plan.
Pilot with representative links before moving high-impact campaigns.
Validate ownership, reporting, integrations, and support after cutover.
Build an asset inventory
Export existing links and enrich the list with domain, slug, destination, status, owner, campaign, creation date, traffic, QR usage, and business importance. Many old links will be duplicates, tests, or tied to expired pages.
Classify assets into migrate, redirect, archive, investigate, and leave in place. Focus effort on links that still receive traffic, appear in durable materials, or support critical customer journeys.
Design for domain continuity
If existing branded domains will move, document DNS ownership, records, certificate expectations, fallback behaviour, and the rollback path. Confirm who is authorised to make the change and when stakeholders can validate it.
Preserve slugs when continuity matters. If a domain or slug cannot move, define an explicit redirect chain and test the full path so audiences do not land on an error or lose campaign parameters.
Pilot the import and operating model
Choose a representative set: a high-traffic link, an editable evergreen link, a QR destination, a UTM-heavy campaign, a routed link, and an automated workflow. Import them into a non-critical domain or controlled wave.
Test both the redirect and the work around it. Confirm search, ownership, permissions, analytics, exports, API calls, webhooks, and urgent destination changes before scheduling a broader cutover.
- Destination and HTTP redirect behaviour
- Query parameter and fragment preservation
- Mobile, regional, or percentage routing rules
- Analytics, API, webhook, and reporting continuity
Cut over in waves and verify
Group links by domain, business owner, or risk. Freeze conflicting changes for the cutover window, import the approved set, change routing or DNS, and run automated plus human checks on priority assets.
Monitor errors and traffic patterns, keep the rollback path available, and record unresolved exceptions. After stability is confirmed, remove obsolete access, archive the old environment according to policy, and hand the new operating guide to owners.
Put it into practice
Migration readiness checklist
Use this as a working review, then adapt it to the risk, channel, and ownership model behind your campaign.
- Exported inventory with owners and business-critical classification
- Domain, DNS, certificate, cutover, and rollback plan
- Cleaned mapping of slugs, destinations, UTM data, and rules
- Representative pilot covering QR, routing, analytics, and integrations
- Wave plan with change freeze and validation owners
- Post-cutover monitoring, access review, and old-system retention decision
Questions, answered
Frequently asked questions
Can we keep our existing branded short domain?
Often yes, if the organisation controls the domain and can update its DNS. Confirm platform support, domain ownership, and the exact cutover and rollback steps before scheduling the move.
Should we migrate every historical link?
Usually not. Prioritise active, high-traffic, durable, and business-critical assets. Archive or document obsolete records according to retention needs instead of importing avoidable clutter.
How do we test a link migration?
Validate representative links end to end: domain and slug, redirect status, destination, parameters, routing, QR scans, analytics, exports, and connected automation.
Keep moving
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