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Programme No. 03Underperforming sites

Website transformation.

Not a redesign — a rebuild of what the site is for.

The website looks acceptable and performs like furniture: traffic that doesn’t convert, rankings that plateaued, a CMS everyone fears. A redesign alone repaints the problem. Transformation rethinks the site as a business system — story, structure, speed, and the demand plan around it.

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The moment

Where it goes wrong.

Site projects fail when they’re scoped as aesthetics: the agency redesigns, the rankings fall, the funnel stays broken — and the org concludes websites don’t work. The transformation treats message, UX, engineering and migration as one scope with one owner.

Built forSites that look fine and convert badlyBusinesses stuck on a legacy platformTeams afraid of their own CMSCompanies whose last redesign backfired
(01)The redesign fixes the look and inherits the broken journey.
(02)Rankings fall in the migration and take quarters to recover.
(03)The new site launches with the old, unexamined messaging.
(04)Nobody instruments it — so the debate about what works continues.
The build

How the pillars combine here.

Messaging sharpens the story, design and engineering rebuild the experience, SEO carries the equity across, and conversion work starts the moment traffic lands.

01 — Brand
Message & story sharpening
Content hierarchy & tone
Design language application
02 — Growth
SEO migration & foundations
Analytics & event instrumentation
Conversion optimisation programme
Content & keyword architecture
03 — Technology
UX research & architecture
Design & engineering
CMS & performance budgets
Maintenance & iteration
Sequence

Five phases, in order.

Phase 01
Discover

Site, funnel and content audits — why it underperforms, with evidence.

Phase 02
Define

Architecture, messaging, platform and migration plan agreed.

Phase 03
Design

Journeys, interface and content rebuilt as one system.

Phase 04
Deploy

Engineered, migrated, instrumented — launched without the cliff.

Phase 05
Drive

CRO and SEO compounding on the new foundation.

Deliverables

What ships in the programme.

Scoped to your situation in Discover — the programme flexes; the sequence doesn’t.

Site & funnel audit

The evidence file the rebuild answers to.

Information architecture

Structure that matches how buyers decide.

Message & content system

The story, page by page — written to convert.

Design system & UI

The brand, applied with craft and rules.

Engineered build & CMS

Fast, editable, documented — with budgets honoured.

SEO migration

Redirects, parity, monitoring — equity intact.

Analytics & dashboards

Every journey measured from launch day.

Conversion programme

The testing rhythm that starts after go-live.

Measured against.

Success criteria are agreed in Discover, in business terms, and reported against for the life of the programme.

Conversion vs old baselineRankings held through migrationSpeed budgets metTeam editing independentlyFunnel instrumented end to end

Common questions.

How is this different from the Website Design & Development service?

That service is the build. This programme wraps the build with the strategy, migration and conversion work that decide whether the build pays — for sites where the problem is bigger than design.

Can we transform in stages instead of one cutover?

Yes — section-by-section transformation is often lower-risk for large sites. Define weighs both routes and recommends one with reasons.

What happens to our existing content?

It’s audited, not assumed: what earns traffic is preserved and improved, what’s dead weight is retired with redirects, and gaps get a content plan.

Site working half
a shift?

Send the URL and your conversion worry — we’ll audit before you commit.

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