Maintenance & Support
Website Redesign keeps what already works on your current site and rebuilds the parts that don't — without starting from zero.
Maintenance & Support for Your Business
Businesses with an existing site that no longer reflects their brand or isn't converting visitors.
- A modern site without losing what already works
- Improved speed and mobile experience
- A smoother visitor experience end-to-end
- Audit of your current site
- Content and structure migration plan
- Rebuilt design and layout
- Performance improvements
- Redirect setup to protect existing search visibility
- Guaranteed search ranking improvements — nobody can honestly promise these, and SEO is not a WebBizora service
- Historical content rewriting unless scoped
How this
service works
The Danger Is Never the Redesign Itself
Google’s own site-moves documentation is clear that some fluctuation immediately after a launch is normal and expected, and that a medium-sized site can take a few weeks for most pages to move across in the index. What is not normal is a sustained, multi-week decline. That pattern means something is broken rather than settling, and it needs diagnosing rather than waiting out. The traffic loss people associate with redesigns is almost never caused by the new design. It is caused by specific, identifiable technical oversights during the change.
Missing Redirects, and the Homepage Trap
Google states that permanent redirects do not cost you PageRank, and that its indexing pipeline treats a 301 as a signal that the target should be canonical. So the redirect itself is not the risk. The risks are the three ways people get it wrong: old URLs with no redirect at all, which simply 404 and take their accumulated authority with them; long redirect chains; and the shortcut of pointing every old URL at the homepage, which Google can treat as a soft 404 and which passes nothing. Every previously indexed page needs its own row in a mapping sheet, including the low-traffic ones that quietly hold backlinks.
Change One Thing at a Time
Look at migrations where the outcome was measured from the outside and they sort cleanly. The disasters changed several things simultaneously — new domain, new URL structure, reorganised content, all on the same day. The uneventful ones changed exactly one thing. When the BBC moved Bitesize between its own domains and when RAC moved its cars section, the architecture and filenames stayed identical and visibility carried across. If your current URL structure works, keeping it is the single cheapest risk reduction available. Restructure URLs when there is a business reason, not because a new platform makes different ones convenient.
Recovery Takes Longer Than Anyone Budgets For
Most redesign conversations treat a traffic dip as a temporary inconvenience. Search Engine Journal's analysis of 892 site migrations puts the average recovery at 523 days — close to eighteen months — with the fastest at 19 days and 17% of sites never recovering at all, even after a thousand days. That is the number that should shape the decision, because it converts “we will sort it out afterwards” into something with a price attached. If organic search brings you enquiries today, work out what losing a third of them for a year would cost. That figure, not the redesign quote, is the real budget for getting the migration right.
What a Normal Dip Looks Like, and What a Broken One Looks Like
Some drop is expected — the site gets recrawled and reindexed, and that takes time. With the redirects mapped properly, a fall of roughly 10-25% in the first thirty days is normal and recovers over the following two to eight months. A drop beyond about 30% is not the reindexing settling down; it is a signal that something specific is broken, usually unmapped URLs returning 404s or redirects pointing somewhere convenient rather than somewhere equivalent. Knowing which of the two you are looking at, in week two rather than month six, is most of the difference between a fixable problem and a permanent one.
Most of the Work Is Not the Design
Worth knowing before comparing quotes. Industry analysis of replatforming projects puts roughly 30-40% of the budget on migration and integration work rather than visual design — the crawl of the existing site, the URL map, the redirect table, re-verifying canonicals and structured data against the new templates rather than copying them across and assuming. A quote that is all design and no migration line is not cheaper. It has moved the cost to the far side of launch, where it is paid in traffic instead of money.
What This Service Does and Does Not Promise
We audit what you currently have before designing anything, map every old URL to its closest new equivalent, carry across titles, meta descriptions and schema, keep the site on a maintained footing afterwards, and leave the redirects in place — Google advises leaving them for at least a year, since it can take that long for old URLs to be fully recrawled and reassigned. What we do not sell is ranking improvement. WebBizora does not do SEO as a service, and any agency promising a redesign will lift your rankings is selling something it cannot control — whoever they are. The realistic goal is a better site that does not cost you what the old one earned.
Questions, Answered Directly
Some short-term movement is normal while Google recrawls and reassigns signals, and Google says as much in its own documentation. A sustained decline past a few weeks is a different thing entirely and usually points at missing redirects or removed content.
No. Google can treat a blanket homepage redirect as a soft 404, which passes no authority — the practical result is the same as having no redirect at all. Each old URL needs pointing at its closest genuine equivalent.
Only with a reason. Every URL change forces search engines to recrawl and reassess, and the migrations that go badly are almost always the ones that changed domain, structure and content at once. If the current structure works, we keep it.
No, and we would be wary of anyone who does. WebBizora does not sell SEO services, so we are not in a position to promise ranking outcomes. We can refer you to people who do that work — though be wary of anyone there who promises rankings either, because those are not something an agency controls. What we take responsibility for is not losing the visibility you already have, which is the part that is actually within a developer’s control.
WebBizora website redesigns start at $1,199 one-time and carry across the URLs, titles and schema a site already ranks for, audited before anything is designed. We do not promise a redesign will improve rankings.
What Website Maintenance Costs Here
Monthly, published, and cancellable. The hard part of comparing maintenance quotes is that “maintenance” means something different at every supplier — so each plan below lists what is actually in it, not just a number.
Essential Care
$79/month
Comparable plans $99 · 20% less
Keeps the site patched, backed up and monitored. For a brochure site that rarely changes.
- Core, theme and plugin updates
- Weekly off-site backups, restorable on request
- Security scanning and malware monitoring
- Uptime monitoring with alerts
- SSL and domain expiry watch
- Monthly update log — you can see what was done
- 30 minutes of small content edits
- Email support, next business day
- Weekend and public holiday response available as a $149 callout
Standard Care
$199/month
Comparable plans $249 · 20% less
Everything in Essential, plus real working time each month for changes that actually need doing.
- Everything in Essential Care
- Daily backups
- 2 hours of content and design changes
- Core Web Vitals monitoring and tuning
- Broken link and 404 checks
- Accessibility spot-checks on new content
- Quarterly review with written findings
- Priority email support, same business day
- Weekend and public holiday response available as a $149 callout
Commerce Care
$449/month
Comparable plans $549 · 18% less
For stores, where an hour of broken checkout costs more than a year of maintenance.
- Everything in Standard Care
- Checkout and payment flow testing after every update
- Product, stock and catalogue support
- Extension and app conflict monitoring
- 4 hours of changes
- Staging environment for larger updates
- Tax and shipping rule checks
- Same business day response on anything blocking a sale
- Weekend and public holiday response available as a $149 callout
Published 2026 guides put small business maintenance at roughly $50–$150 a month for basic cover, $150–$400 for a standard plan and $400–$1,000+ for full service, with ad-hoc freelancer work at $50–$150 an hour. That last figure is the one worth holding onto: ten small changes billed hourly costs more than a year of Essential Care. Plans are monthly, there is no minimum term, and hosting stays in your name throughout.
If You Also Need the Site Built
Typical agency cost: $1,499+
A focused five-page site for a small business that needs to be found, understood and contacted.
- Up to 5 pages
- Custom responsive design — no template
- Contact form with spam protection
- Speed and Core Web Vitals work
- Accessible markup (WCAG-aware build)
- Basic schema and meta setup
- 2 revision rounds
- 30 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $2,399+
More pages, more integrations, and the structure a growing business needs to keep adding to.
- Up to 12 pages
- Everything in Starter
- Blog or news section
- Google Business Profile and maps integration
- Newsletter or CRM connection
- Multi-location or service-area pages
- 3 revision rounds
- 60 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $3,799+
Booking, payments and a design built around how your business actually converts.
- Up to 25 pages
- Everything in Business
- Booking or appointment system
- Online payments (Stripe or equivalent)
- Customer portal or member area
- Bilingual build where the market needs it
- Advanced schema and AEO structure
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site
Typical agency cost: $5,499+
A complete online store — catalogue, checkout, tax and shipping, built to sell from launch day.
- Up to 100 products at launch
- Everything in Premium
- Full catalogue with variants and filtering
- Checkout, tax and shipping configuration
- Payment gateway integration
- Order, stock and customer management
- Abandoned-cart recovery setup
- 4 revision rounds
- 90 days post-launch support
- Full ownership of the finished site