Improvements Before a Rebuild

Rebuilding is rarely the first answer

Businesses rebuild sites that needed four specific improvements, losing content and search visibility on the way.

Try the improvements first. They are cheaper, faster and reversible.

Four that usually pay

1. Make it fast — images, hosting, plugin cleanup
2. Publish prices — ranges at minimum
3. Respond faster — automated acknowledgement, named owner
4. Add proof — real photographs, named testimonials

Those four cost perhaps a fifth of a rebuild and frequently produce more improvement, because they address why visitors leave rather than how the site looks.

Then the content

• Update the pages that already bring traffic
• Write the answers to the questions you keep being asked
• Add internal links between related pages
• Remove or merge pages that serve nobody

Check the basics still work

Then decide about rebuilding

After those improvements, you will know whether the remaining problems are fixable or foundational. That is a much better basis for the decision.

Frequently the site turns out to be fine and the problem was never the design.

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