A redesign without SEO planning is the fastest way to destroy years of organic rankings. Changed URLs without 301 redirects, deleted content that was ranking, restructured navigation that confuses Google — we've seen redesigns wipe out 60–80% of organic traffic overnight.
Our approach treats your existing SEO equity as a foundational asset. Every URL, every ranking page, every backlink is mapped, protected, and improved through the redesign — not destroyed by it.
Launching a redesigned site without comprehensive 301 redirects. Every old URL that returns a 404 instead of a 301 loses its accumulated authority, rankings, and backlink value permanently.
Baseline everything before touching a thing
Every old URL mapped to its new destination
Keep, update, merge, or retire every page
Modern design with improved SEO structure
Build, migrate, optimize, and redirect
Test everything, then go live with monitoring
Before changing anything, we document your current SEO baseline: every ranking keyword, every page's organic traffic, every backlink pointing to your site, your current indexation status, and your Search Console performance. This becomes the benchmark we measure the redesign's success against.
Page is ranking, driving traffic, and serving its purpose. Migrate as-is with URL preservation.
Page has value but needs refresh — updated content, better optimization, improved design.
Multiple thin pages covering the same topic. Combine into one comprehensive, stronger page.
Page has no traffic, no backlinks, and no value. 301 redirect to the most relevant remaining page.
We create a complete URL mapping document that maps every existing URL to its new destination. Every page, every blog post, every image, every PDF — nothing gets a 404.
For sites with hundreds of URLs, we use crawl data from Screaming Frog combined with Google Analytics and Search Console to prioritize the URLs that matter most — pages with traffic, rankings, or backlinks get the most attention.
Redirects are implemented server-side (not via plugins) for maximum speed and reliability, and we test every single redirect before launch.
Even with perfect execution, a redesign creates a brief adjustment period as Google re-crawls and re-indexes your new site structure. With our SEO-safe methodology, the typical recovery curve looks like this:
Most clients see traffic fully recovered within 30 days, and surpassing pre-redesign levels within 60–90 days — because the new site has better architecture, faster speed, improved content, and stronger technical SEO.
We provide weekly reports during this recovery period so you can see exactly where traffic stands relative to your pre-redesign baseline.
A personal injury firm's 2017 website was slow, not mobile-friendly, and lacked ADA compliance. We redesigned on WordPress/Genesis with complete URL mapping (47 301 redirects), migrated and optimized all content, implemented schema markup, and monitored for 90 days post-launch. Zero ranking pages were lost. Traffic recovered in 3 weeks and grew 186% within 6 months.
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