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Website Redesign Services and Rescue

Website redesign services for a site that is slow, broken or built by someone unreachable. We audit before proposing a rebuild, because repair is often cheaper and keeps the rankings you have.

Audit my current site Repair or rebuild

The diagnosis

Repair or Rebuild

A rebuild is not always the answer and it is rarely the cheap one. Four tests decide.

Can your team edit it: If every change needs a developer, that cost never stops and usually beats a one-off rebuild.
Is the structure sound: If URLs and categories sit in the right places, repair is cheaper and keeps the rankings you already have.
Is it slow because of images or because of the build: Images and caching are a repair. A theme carrying unused code is a rebuild.
Is traffic rising: If it is, a redesign risks undoing months of progress. We stage it or we wait.

Process

Website Redesign Services Without Losing Rankings

The redirect map is the part that decides whether this goes well.

Baseline

Rankings, traffic and top pages recorded before anything changes. Without this you cannot prove what happened.

URL map

Every existing URL matched to its new destination. This is where most redesigns quietly lose traffic.

Build on staging

The new site assembled beside the live one, built as a business site with content migrated rather than retyped.

Redirects and launch

Redirects live at cutover, not the week after. Search Console watched daily for the first fortnight.

Recovery window

Four weeks of monitoring. Small drops are normal, and we know which are worth acting on.

Protection

What Stops This Going Wrong

A recorded baseline
Numbers from before, so any change is measurable rather than argued about.
A complete redirect map
Every old URL accounted for. Missing redirects are the main cause of post-redesign traffic loss.
Content migrated, not rewritten
Pages that rank keep their content unless the content itself is the problem. Rewriting proven pages is a common and expensive mistake.
Monitoring after launch
Four weeks of Search Console review included, because problems appear after cutover rather than during it.

Honest view

Three Redesign Mistakes We Refuse

Each of these has cost businesses their rankings, and all three are avoidable.

Launching without redirects, planning to add them later. Later is usually after the traffic has gone.
Rewriting pages that already rank because the new design needs shorter text. Design serves content, not the reverse.
Changing the URL structure with no reason beyond preference. Every change costs something and must earn it.

If the current site is fundamentally sound, a technical fix may cost far less than a rebuild.

FAQ

Questions About Redesigns

Will a redesign hurt my rankings?

Not if redirects are mapped properly and pages that rank keep their content. Most redesign traffic losses come from skipping the redirect map or rewriting proven pages. We record a baseline first so any change is measurable.

Should I redesign or just fix my site?

Repair when the structure is sound and the problem is speed or appearance. Rebuild when your team cannot edit it, or when URL structure is working against you. We audit and tell you which, even when repair means a smaller project for us.

How long does a website redesign take?

Four to eight weeks for most business sites, since content already exists and gets migrated. Redirect mapping and testing add time at the end, and that is the part worth not rushing.

Can you keep my content but change the design?

Yes, and often that is exactly right. Pages that rank keep their text while the design around them changes. This is the lowest-risk version of a redesign and usually the fastest.

What if the previous developer will not hand over access?

It depends what you can prove ownership of. Domain and hosting can usually be recovered with registration proof. If the code cannot be retrieved, a rebuild may be the only route, and we tell you that early rather than after invoicing discovery.

Next step

Send the site before deciding anything

We tell you honestly whether repair beats rebuild, even when that means a smaller project for us.

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