If your Wigan business website is slow, dated, or failing to generate enquiries, it’s costing you more than a redesign would. Mako Digital rebuilds Wigan websites on hand-coded WordPress — full content migration, 301 redirect mapping, schema rebuilt, mobile optimised, all rankings protected. No page builders, no platform tax, no losing what you’ve built. Real Wigan office at WN3 5AT.
Most Wigan businesses know their site is broken. Most also fear that fixing it will lose rankings or cost a fortune. Both fears are solvable.
A slow, dated, or broken site doesn’t just not work — it actively damages your business. Visitors bounce, Google demotes, competitors win. Every month you delay, you’re losing enquiries to better-built sites in the same Wigan market. Redesign cost is almost always less than the lost work.
The biggest fear with a redesign is losing Google rankings. Done properly, you don’t. We carry out a full URL audit pre-launch, map 301 redirects for every changed page, migrate meta data, and submit the new sitemap to GSC on launch day. Most clients see rankings hold or improve within 30 days.
Different starting points, same finishing line: a fast, owned, schema-ready WordPress site that ranks and converts.
Stuck on a subscription platform with limited SEO tools, slow load times, and rising fees? We migrate Wigan businesses off Wix, Squarespace, GoDaddy, and Webflow onto hand-coded WordPress every month. You own the site, you choose the host, the platform isn’t a tax any more.
Inherited an Elementor, Divi, or WPBakery mess from a previous developer? Slow load times, broken edits, plugin conflicts, missing schema. We rebuild on a clean hand-coded theme — same WordPress, no builder, faster, and properly maintainable.
E-commerce site bloated with a marketplace theme and 40 plugins? We rebuild on custom WooCommerce themes — cleaner, faster, properly schema’d. See The Dog Outlet below: full Petio + Elementor swap with zero downtime.
Fixed prices, agreed before work starts. Free 30-minute audit before any quote. No estimates that grow halfway through.
Five-page WordPress redesign. Best fit for most Wigan small businesses on a Wix, Squarespace, or aging WordPress site.
Larger redesigns — multi-page sites, bespoke functionality, cluster SEO architecture, complex content migration.
E-commerce redesign on custom WooCommerce theme. Replaces marketplace themes / Shopify / Magento.
The reason most redesigns lose rankings is that nobody planned the migration properly. Here’s exactly what we do, in order, to make sure that doesn’t happen on your project.
A botched redesign can cost you 30–80% of your organic traffic overnight. A proper migration loses none of it — and usually improves it within 30–90 days. The difference between the two is process. Here’s ours.
Before any design work starts, we export your full URL list, GSC ranking data, and content inventory. Identifies which pages drive traffic, which to keep, which to retire. Outputs a 1:1 redirect map. No site-wide rebuild without this map in place.
New site is built on staging (separate hosting). Your live site stays online, email keeps working, customers keep buying. Only on launch day do we cut over — usually a 30-second DNS change. Most redesigns lose business simply because someone took the live site offline mid-build.
Every URL that changes gets a permanent 301 redirect from old to new. Link equity preserved, no 404s, no orphan pages. The single most-skipped step in cheap redesigns — and the single biggest cause of ranking losses. We map them in a spreadsheet, deploy them at .htaccess level.
Existing title tags, meta descriptions, alt text — all migrated to the new site. Schema upgraded: typically going from 4 simple types to a full 15+ entity graph. You don’t lose what you have; you gain what you didn’t.
New sitemap submitted to Google Search Console the moment the site goes live. Property verified, change-of-address request filed if domain changes too. Forces Google to re-crawl on day one rather than waiting for it to discover the new structure on its own schedule.
For the first 14 days after launch we monitor rankings, crawl errors, and 404s daily. Anything that flags, we fix immediately. Then weekly for 30 days. Most redesign damage shows up in the first 2 weeks — we catch and fix it before it embeds.
We use this exact process for every Wigan redesign — from a five-page sole-trader site to a full WooCommerce migration like The Dog Outlet. Want a free 30-minute audit of your existing site? Get in touch — we’ll tell you straight whether a redesign is worth it, what it would cost, and what you’d gain.
Both replaced previous-developer messes. Both migrated content cleanly. Both ranking better today than before the redesign — one on bespoke PHP, one on custom WooCommerce.
Full WordPress redesign — replaced an aging template-based site with 80+ hand-coded PHP templates, six service clusters, 49 sub-service anchor pages, and a 10-location regional SEO network. All existing content migrated, redirects mapped, rankings protected throughout. The site they have now didn’t exist a year ago.
Complete WooCommerce redesign — replaced bloated Petio + Elementor with custom “feedumraw” theme. Brand taxonomy filter, Subscribe & Save, Click & Collect, full product catalog migrated, zero downtime swap-over. Faster, cleaner, fully owned. The redesign people are scared of — done properly.
Honest answers to the questions every business owner asks before signing off a rebuild. No fluff.
Not if it’s handled properly. We carry out a full URL audit before rebuild, set up 301 redirects for any pages that change address, migrate your existing meta data, and submit the new sitemap to GSC on launch day. Done correctly, a redesign should maintain or improve your rankings — not damage them. Most Wigan clients see rankings hold steady within the first 30 days and improve over the following 60–90 days as the new site’s technical SEO foundations kick in.
Yes — we migrate Wigan businesses off subscription platforms onto WordPress every month. We handle the content migration, rebuild on a clean hand-coded theme, set up proper 301 redirects, and ensure nothing is lost in the process. The result: a faster site you actually own, on hosting you control, with proper SEO architecture instead of platform limitations.
No. We build the new site on staging (separate hosting environment) so your live site stays online and email keeps working throughout. Only on launch day do we point your domain to the new site — usually a 30-second DNS change with no downtime. If you have business email tied to the same hosting, we coordinate carefully to avoid any inbox interruption. Zero-downtime swap-overs are routine for us.
We can work with your existing content, rewrite it for SEO and conversion, or produce new content from scratch — depending on what your project needs. If your current copy is thin, dated, or poorly structured for Google, we’ll flag it during the audit and quote any rewrites separately. Good copy is half a redesign — we won’t put bad content into a good site without saying so.
Five-page WordPress rebuilds from £449.99 fixed. Custom multi-page redesigns from £749. WooCommerce / e-commerce rebuilds from £949. Migration from Wix/Squarespace/GoDaddy adds typically £150–£250 for content extraction and redirect mapping. All prices are fixed before work starts — no estimates that grow halfway through. We quote properly after a free 30-minute audit of your existing site.
A typical five-page redesign takes 1–3 weeks from sign-off to launch. Larger sites with custom functionality or e-commerce take 3–6 weeks. We agree timeline upfront and stick to it — we’re Wigan-based at WN3 5AT so back-and-forth is fast (phone, email, or walk-in by appointment). Most of the build happens in week one–two, with content migration and redirect mapping in week three before go-live.
Same network, different angle. Pick whichever route matches what you’re actually looking for.
Free 30-minute audit of your existing site. Honest answer on whether a redesign is worth it, what it would cost, what you'd gain. No obligation, no hard sell. Walk-in meetings welcome at WN3 5AT — easy access from M6 (J25/J26), M61, A580 East Lancs Road.