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Redirect Mapping Cost Calculator

Enter your total URL count, mapping speed and hourly rate to estimate the time and cost of building a redirect map for your migration.

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Hours are total URLs divided by URLs mapped per hour. Cost is hours multiplied by your hourly rate.

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A redirect mapping cost calculator estimates how many hours it takes to match every old URL to its new destination before a site migration, and what that work costs at your team's hourly rate.

Why mapping takes real time

Redirect mapping is not a bulk find-and-replace job. Someone needs to check that each old URL points to the page that actually replaces it in the new structure, since a lazy or generic mapping, sending everything to the homepage for example, throws away the ranking value of individual pages and can tank organic traffic after launch.

How the calculation works

Divide your total URL count by how many URLs one person can accurately map per hour, then multiply the resulting hours by your hourly rate. A simple migration where the old and new URL structures closely mirror each other moves much faster than a full redesign that consolidates or reorganizes content.

Setting a realistic mapping speed

Rather than guessing, map a sample of 100 to 200 URLs first and time how long it actually takes your team, then use that pace here. Mapping speed drops fast on sites with inconsistent old URL patterns, duplicate or thin pages that need to be merged, or a new information architecture that does not map cleanly one-to-one, so build in extra hours whenever any of those apply to your project.

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FAQ

Redirect Mapping Cost Calculator: questions, answered

What is redirect mapping?
Redirect mapping is the process of matching every old URL to its correct new URL, one-to-one, before a site migration, redesign or replatform goes live. A clean map is what a 301 redirect file or rule set is built from.
How is redirect mapping cost calculated here?
Divide your total URL count by how many URLs one person can map per hour to get total hours, then multiply hours by the hourly rate to get total cost. The mapping speed you use should reflect how similar your old and new URL structures are.
How many URLs can someone map per hour?
It depends heavily on how similar the old and new site structures are. A simple one-to-one CMS migration might allow 60 or more URLs mapped per hour, while a full redesign with a changed URL structure or content consolidation can slow that down to 15 or 20 per hour. Time a sample batch of your own URLs to get an accurate number.
Does this include the technical work of installing the redirects?
No, this only estimates the time to build the mapping spreadsheet itself. Implementing the redirects on the server or CMS, testing them, and monitoring crawl and index status afterward are separate tasks with their own time costs.
Why does redirect mapping matter for SEO?
A missing or incorrect redirect sends both users and search engines to a 404 page instead of the new equivalent content, which can wipe out a page's ranking history overnight. A complete, accurate map is one of the highest-leverage steps in protecting organic traffic through a migration.

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