Will my Google ranking survive switching to Renta?

If you already had a website before switching to Renta, this tool checks whether your new Renta site keeps what brought you customers: the same pages, the same titles, and the same short search descriptions ("blurbs"). The goal is that nobody who finds you on Google lands on a dead page.

Where to find it

Settings, then SEO Move Check. It is in the Account group of the Settings menu.

How it works

1. Under Record your current site, type the web address of the site you are moving away from and press Run the check. Do this before you switch the old site off, because once it is gone the record can't be made. 2. Renta reads your old site's page addresses, titles, and blurbs (up to 50 pages) and keeps them. 3. It compares them with your Renta pages and shows four counts: Pages with no Renta page, Addresses changed, Titles rewritten, and Blurb problems, plus how many recorded pages need a look. 4. Go through the list. Tick Only show pages that need a look to hide the pages that are fine.

On each page in the list you can:

• Choose the matching page in the Renta page menu if Renta paired it wrongly or couldn't pair it. "none" means no match. Draft pages are labeled.
• Press Not a problem to wave off something you've decided doesn't matter. It becomes Bring back if you change your mind.

Press Check again after you change things to refresh the results. It reads your old website again (up to 50 pages, and no more than once a minute), so use it while the old site is still online. For a page whose address changed, set up a redirect so the old address still works: see Redirecting old page links to new ones.

Example

Your old site had a page at `yourbusiness.com/rentals` that ranked well in Google. Your Renta site put that content at a different address. The check lists it under "Addresses changed", so you can redirect the old address instead of losing the visitors.

Good to know

• If the page says the tool needs a database update that hasn't been applied yet, that is a message for Renta's team, not something you can fix. Contact support.
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