Your Redesign Tanked Your Rankings · The Recovery

Recover the rankings the redesign cost you.

The new website looks great — and your phone went quiet. A redesign or migration that drops URLs, breaks redirects, or strips content can erase years of ranking equity in a week. The damage is reversible, but only if you diagnose it before you rebuild on top of it.

The Diagnosis

First, find what the migration broke.

A redesign rarely fails for one reason — it fails for several at once. Changed URLs without redirects. Dropped pages that used to rank. Removed on-page content the rankings depended on. A slower, heavier template. Lost or altered schema. Each one bleeds visibility; together they crater it.

The losses compound.

The clock matters. Every week Google recrawls the broken structure, the lost equity sets harder. Catching it in the first weeks means a clean redirect map and content restoration recover most of it. Catching it months later means rebuilding trust from a lower floor.

Speed is the recovery.

The Operation

Three phases. Migration recovery.

Migration recovery is a known operation. We map what existed, what changed, and what broke — then restore the equity methodically rather than guessing.

Phase 01

Forensic Crawl + Diff

What existed vs what shipped.

We pull the old structure — archived URLs, pre-launch rankings, indexed pages — and diff it against the new site, surfacing every dropped URL, missing redirect, stripped section, and schema loss.

  • Old-vs-new URL inventory
  • Missing / broken redirect map
  • Lost content & schema audit
  • Indexation and crawl-error scan
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Phase 02

Redirect & Content Restoration

Reconnect the equity.

We implement the correct 301 map so old equity flows to the right new URLs, restore the content and internal links the rankings depended on, and fix the technical regressions the new template introduced.

  • 301 redirect map implemented
  • Critical content restored
  • Internal linking rebuilt
  • Speed & technical regressions fixed
Phase 03

Re-Baseline & Recover

Climb back, then past.

A clean geo-grid baseline, honest tracking, and the full methodology applied from the recovered foundation — so you don't just get back to where you were, you keep going.

  • Geo-grid baseline reset
  • Conversion tracking verified
  • Methodology applied
  • Recovery tracked weekly
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Why redesign recovery is its own discipline

We've seen this failure. Many times.

A redesign that tanks rankings is a structured failure, not a mystery. The patterns repeat, and the recovery follows them.

Reason 01

We diff, we don't guess.

Most 'recovery' starts by adding new content. We start by finding exactly what changed — because you can't restore equity you haven't measured.

Reason 02

Redirects are surgical.

A sloppy redirect map is how most migrations lose equity twice. We map old to new URL by URL, by intent, not with a blanket rule.

Reason 03

We fix the template, not just the pages.

Often the new theme is slower and thinner. We address the technical regression so the content has a fast, crawlable home.

Engagement Options

Three engagements. One specialist team.

Every engagement starts with Local Intelligence — the paid diagnosis. From there you choose the scope.
Entry — required before any engagement
Local Intelligence Audit
Competitor authority map, entity weakness audit, realistic timeline projection. A one-time fee. Yours to keep whether or not you engage us.

Organic SEO visibility

Local Authority

SEO across every organic surface — the compounding asset that widens the lead on its own.

  • Website foundation, GBP, citations, reviews
  • Entity-based optimization & content
  • AI-search visibility (GEO / AEO)
Starting at
$3,000/mo
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Paid search visibility

Paid Surge

Immediate visibility — the fast strike across every paid surface while the asset builds.

  • Google Ads / PPC management
  • Google Local Services Ads
  • Facebook & Instagram advertising
Starting at
$1,500/mo
+ ad spend
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Total Takeover

Organic and paid visibility, fully integrated and run by one specialist team. The fast start and the compounding moat, together.

  • Everything in Local Authority
  • Everything in Paid Surge
  • One coordinated operation — no fragmentation
Starting at
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The Next Step

Recover what the redesign cost.

30-minute strategy call. We diff the old site against the new one, map the redirects, and project how much equity comes back — and how fast.