What these articles cover
Posts describe crawling the current site, deciding which pages to keep, merge or retire, and setting permanent redirects that point straight to the final destination rather than through a chain.
Benefits and pitfalls
Done carefully, a redesign improves speed, clarity and conversion without resetting hard-won rankings. Typical mistakes are changing URLs without redirects, rewriting pages that already perform and launching without checking how search engines will see the new site.
Questions before you start
Which pages bring traffic today? Which URLs will change? Who approves redirects and who tests them? Having named answers before design begins prevents the most common launch-week surprises and gives your search visibility its best chance of carrying through the transition.
Next steps
Read how to plan a redesign without losing rankings, then explore our website design and website development services, which build redesigns with search in the plan from day one.