Website Redesign Services
Rebuilding an existing website without losing the rankings, content and links it has already earned.
What is a website redesign?
A website redesign rebuilds an existing site's design, structure or platform while keeping the parts that already work. Done properly it preserves URLs or redirects them, retains existing content value, and improves speed, clarity and conversion. Done carelessly it drops rankings overnight, usually because URLs changed without redirects being mapped.
Why this matters
The risk in a redesign is not design taste. It is losing traffic that took years to build. Before anything visual is decided, we take stock of which pages bring traffic and enquiries, which URLs exist, and what must survive the move. The new site is then designed around those facts.
Why redesigns go wrong
- URLs change and no redirect map is created, so ranking pages return 404s.
- Content that was ranking is cut because it looked dull in the new layout.
- The new design is signed off on desktop and disappoints on mobile.
- Technical elements like schema, canonical tags and sitemaps are rebuilt from scratch and quietly lost.
Our redesign sequence
Audit first: existing URLs, traffic, rankings, backlinks and conversion paths. Then decide what is kept, merged, rewritten or retired. Design and build follow. Before launch a redirect map is written and tested, and after launch crawl errors and rankings are watched closely for the first weeks.
What website redesign includes
Every engagement is scoped to your situation, but these are the components the work is built from.
- Pre-redesign auditInventory of every existing URL with its traffic, rankings and inbound links.
- Content decisionsKeep, merge, rewrite or retire — decided against data rather than taste.
- Redirect mappingEvery retired URL mapped to its closest replacement, with no redirect chains.
- Structure improvementCleaner navigation and internal linking so important pages sit closer to the homepage.
- Performance rebuildImages, fonts and scripts reworked, which is usually where the biggest speed gains sit.
- Post-launch monitoringCrawl errors, index coverage and key rankings watched through the transition period.
What changes for your business
- Rankings and links carried across instead of rebuilt from zero.
- A faster, clearer site without losing existing content value.
- Fewer 404s and broken inbound links after launch.
- A structure that supports adding pages later.
Technology and platforms
Chosen to match how the work will actually be maintained, not by preference.
How the work runs
Each stage ends with something you can review, so course corrections happen early rather than at handover.
- UnderstandWhat the site must achieve, who visits, and who will maintain it afterwards.
- StructurePage set, content order and templates agreed before any visual design.
- Design & buildMobile-first components, then implementation on a staging environment you can review.
- TestReal device widths, forms, speed and accessibility checks before anything goes live.
- Launch & hand overDeployment, measurement verified, documentation so your team can take it from here.
Industries we apply website redesign in
The technical work is often similar across sectors. What differs is what customers need to see before they act.
What drives the cost
We publish what moves the price rather than a headline figure, because the figure without the drivers is not comparable.
- Size of the existing site and number of URLs to map
- Whether the platform changes as well as the design
- How much content is rewritten rather than migrated
- Complexity of existing integrations
Why work with SWT Company
Scoped before it is quoted
We ask what the business needs before proposing work. A quote given before that conversation is a guess.
Measurement first
Tracking — including calls and WhatsApp — is verified before spend, because every later decision depends on it.
No claims we cannot support
No ranking guarantees, no invented results, no numbers we cannot evidence.
You own everything
Domain, hosting, repository, analytics and ad accounts stay in your name.
Built to be handed over
Documentation and clear structure, so you are never dependent on one supplier.
Mobile-first in practice
Designed at phone width and tested on mid-range devices over mobile data.
Projects and case studies
We publish case studies only where a client has agreed and the results can be evidenced. None are published yet, because no verified client data was supplied for this build and inventing results is not something we will do. Ask and we will arrange references in your sector directly.
Website Redesign — frequently asked questions
It can, and most of the damage comes from unmapped URL changes. With a redirect map, preserved content and consistent canonical tags, a redesign usually holds or improves rankings.
Where they are sensible, yes — keeping a URL is always safer than redirecting it. Change them only when the structure is genuinely wrong, and then redirect every old URL.
Typically six to ten weeks for a business site, with the audit and content decisions taking a meaningful share of that.
Yes. Rolling out section by section reduces risk and lets you check traffic behaviour before moving the rest.
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