How do I move my RV park website to a new company?

The six steps

1. Secure the domain. In your own registrar account, before giving notice. This is the step that protects everything else.
2. Save content and photos. Every page's text, every image at full size.
3. Get the URL list. Every existing page address. Your sitemap.xml or Google Search Console both give you this.
4. Build first. The new site complete and reviewed before anything switches.
5. Switch and verify. Change the DNS, then check that every old URL redirects to its new equivalent.
6. Update the listings. Google profile, Apple, Bing, directories, and your booking platform.

The step everyone skips

Redirects. Your old pages have links pointing at them from directories, the chamber, blogs, and search results. If yourpark.com/rates becomes yourpark.com/rates-and-sites with no redirect, every one of those links breaks and the ranking that page had is gone. Mapping old URLs to new is an hour of work that protects years of history. More on that here.

Timing it

Move in the off season if you can. If you cannot, switch on a weekday morning rather than a Friday afternoon, so there is a full business day to catch anything broken. Keep the old hosting running for at least two weeks after the switch as a fallback.

What to expect afterwards

A brief dip in traffic for a week or two as search engines recrawl, then recovery. If the redirects were done properly, rankings generally return and often improve, since a new site is usually faster and better structured. If traffic does not recover within a month, the redirects are the first thing to check.