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RankAI follows your website, so tell it when your website changes. A new domain needs a new project. A rebuild on the same domain only needs your connections updated.
Action needed: after a move or rebuild, reconnect your CMS, Search Console and the script, then check one published article on the new site.
In RankAI: Settings → Integrations · rankai.ai/dashboard/<project>/settings/integrations. New project: project switcher → Add New Project.

Which case are you in?

Rebuild on the same domain

  1. Reconnect your CMS. Open Settings → Integrations, click Change on Publishing, and connect the new CMS. For a website built with code, Sanity or Squarespace, check the Blog Post Path matches where articles live on the new site.
  2. Add the script again if your theme or site code was replaced. Open Site health, click Apply Changes to copy it, then click Check Script Connection. See Install the technical SEO & AEO script.
  3. Publish your existing articles to the new CMS. Open Articles, select the articles, and click Publish. This sends them again, including ones already published.
  4. Open one article on the live site and check the address, images and links.

Move to a new domain

  1. Set up redirects on your website first. Point each old address to its new address with a permanent (301) redirect. RankAI doesn’t create redirects for you.
  2. Tell Google. Add the new domain to Google Search Console and verify it. If the whole site moved, use Search Console’s change of address tool.
  3. Create a new project for the new domain: project switcher → Add New Project → enter the domain → Create Project.
  4. Connect the new project: your CMS in Settings → Integrations, the new Search Console property, and the new project’s script. The script is tied to a project, so the old project’s script won’t work for the new one.
  5. Contact support before you delete the old project, so we can help move your plan.

Avoid these mistakes

  • Deleting the old project too early. Delete project removes all keywords, articles and reports for that domain, and it can’t be undone.
  • Skipping redirects. Without them, old article addresses stop working and lose their search history. With redirects in place, RankAI follows them and updates the addresses it shows.
  • Leaving the old script on the new site. Each project has its own script; use the one from the new project.

What to expect

  • Search data for the new domain starts from the day Search Console collects it.
  • Articles you publish from the new project go to the new CMS.
Questions about your move? Contact support.
Last reviewed: November 13, 2026.