Redesign without losing your SEO
Modernise your design, improve Core Web Vitals, and preserve every gain you've made on Google. From R5,500.
Website Redesign in South Africa
WeMakeSites redesigns existing websites without sacrificing SEO equity, content, or organic traffic. Pricing starts at R5,500 — same as a new build, because the work is similar — though established sites with content to migrate often run R8,500–R20,000. Every redesign starts with an audit of your current site: which pages drive traffic, what's ranking and for which terms, where Core Web Vitals fall short, what content is worth keeping versus retiring. We then redesign with a focus on conversion and modern Core Web Vitals, migrate content carefully (with 301 redirects for any URL changes), and preserve all schema and metadata. Most redesigns ship in 4–6 weeks. The most common reason businesses redesign is that their current site looks dated, doesn't load fast on mobile, or doesn't reflect a brand evolution.
Why this matters
Most agency redesigns destroy organic search traffic. They launch a beautifully redesigned site that's fundamentally a new domain in Google's eyes — different URL structures, missing redirects, removed content, reset schema markup. Three months later the client is wondering why their lead flow disappeared, and the agency is shrugging.
We redesign differently because we treat SEO equity as a hard constraint, not an afterthought. Before any design work, we audit which of your existing pages drive traffic, which keywords they rank for, what their backlink profile looks like, and which content is genuinely earning visits. Anything that's working keeps its URL. Anything that has to change gets a clean 301 redirect to its new home. Schema migrates intact. Internal links update. We don't drop pages without explicit reason and a plan for the traffic.
The design itself focuses on what redesigns are actually for: better conversion, better mobile performance, better brand expression. Most older South African business sites have three problems: cluttered design that confuses visitors, mobile experiences built as an afterthought (often genuinely broken on certain devices), and Core Web Vitals scores in the red because they're built on bloated themes. We fix all three. Design is custom, mobile is built first, performance is tuned to Lighthouse 90+ on every page.
Content migration is hands-on. We don't just copy and paste — we look at every page, decide what's keeping, what's combining, what's retiring, and how the new structure should look. Often a 40-page legacy site becomes a 20-page modern site that ranks better because content is properly clustered.
What's included
How we work
Audit
We audit your current site — rankings, traffic, content performance, technical issues. Identify what's working and what to keep.
Design
Custom new design in Figma. Two rounds of revisions. Approved before any code.
Build & migrate
New site built on staging. Content migrated carefully. Redirect map prepared for any URL changes.
Pre-launch QA
Crawl staging vs production, verify every redirect, check schema validity, run Lighthouse on every page.
Launch & monitor
Go live with redirects active. Submit updated sitemap. Monitor Search Console for crawl errors and ranking shifts for 30 days.
Most redesigns with meaningful content migration sit between R8,500 and R20,000.
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Where we serve
We deliver this service to clients across all 9 South African provinces. Same scope, same pricing, same turnaround nationwide.
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