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Case Study — Website Rebuild & SEO Migration

A full site rebuild.
Google showed them 2.5× more often
within 30 days.

A New Jersey home-services company serving 50+ towns needed a completely new website — without losing the search visibility it had taken years to build. Here is how we did it.

Industry Residential & commercial cleaning, NJ
Engagement type Full site rebuild with search-safe migration
Period Q1–Q2 2026
Permission to publish Anonymized only
2.5× Search impressions in the 30 days after launch vs. the 30 days before
1,786 Legacy page addresses individually mapped — zero equity dropped
1,000+ Pages launched on the new site at go-live

A site that needed to change without losing what it had already earned

This client had been burned before. A previous round of “SEO cleanup” advice had led to pages being removed — pages that were quietly bringing in customers. Organic visibility dropped as a result. So when the business needed a full redesign, the question on the table was not just “how do we build a better site” — it was “how do we do this without repeating that mistake?”

The technical scope made it harder. The old site had roughly 1,800 page addresses that Google already knew. Moving to an entirely new structure — more pages, better organized, with a Spanish-language section and a blog — meant every single one of those addresses would change. Done without a plan, that is how rankings disappear overnight.

The site also needed real scale to compete locally: dedicated pages for each of 50+ towns, service-specific pages per town, county-level landing pages, and a blog. That is not a build you can rush. And it is not one where you improvise the search-safety piece at the end.

Search-safe from day one

Visibility went up, not down

The result that defines this engagement: Google showed the new site to searchers 2.5 times more often in the 30 days after launch than in the 30 days before. Impressions climbed during the migration window — exactly the period where a poorly executed redesign costs the most.

All 1,000+ new pages were live and moving through Google’s processing pipeline on schedule. The Spanish-language section and blog added surface area for the long-tail searches most local competitors do not cover at all.

Metric Before launch After launch (30 days) Change
Daily search impressions (avg) 165 / day 420 / day +2.5×
Peak impression days 500–645 / day During migration
Pages live at launch ~100 (flat structure) 1,000+ 10× more coverage
Legacy addresses preserved 1,786 of 1,786 100% carry-over
Indexed pages (post-migration) Indexed pages climbing back toward pre-migration levels — full recovery underway. Final count to be confirmed from July GSC export.

Source: Google Search Console coverage export, verified 2026-06-12. Pre-launch average: 30 days before 2026-05-06. Post-launch average: 30 days after 2026-05-06. Peak days from daily impression chart. Results describe this engagement; they are not a guarantee of identical outcomes for any other project.

Where this past performance applies

This engagement demonstrates our ability to plan and execute a large-scale web rebuild where search-visibility continuity is a hard requirement — not an afterthought.

Buyer types
Any organization planning a site redesign that cannot afford to lose its existing search rankings — local businesses, government agencies upgrading public-facing sites (ADA Title II compliance lane), nonprofits, multi-location service companies.
Set-aside relevance
NJ MBE / SBE (P4 is NJ SBE certified, Category 1 & 4); federal small business. Relevant to web design and digital services solicitations, including those requiring accessibility remediation where a full rebuild — not a patch — is the scope.
NAICS codes
541511 — Custom Computer Programming Services 541512 — Computer Systems Design Services 541613 — Marketing Consulting Services
Proposal search keywords
website redesign SEO migration URL migration search visibility local SEO large site rebuild NJ home services search-safe redesign ADA Title II rebuild

Where the numbers live

The 2.5× impression figure is drawn from the Google Search Console coverage export for this engagement, generated 2026-06-12, covering chart data from 2026-03-13 through 2026-06-04.

The live site was verified 2026-06-12: all pages returning correct responses, redirects functioning as designed.

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