Website migration
Stuck on a Yell package, Wix or a locked-in website? We'll move you out without losing what's working.
Sam and RobDialekt, Leeds
A site you own outright. Your domain, your hosting, your analytics, on accounts in your name. And the Google rankings you've built up over the years, carried across rather than thrown away.
Read the small print.
What the package saysYour website.
What it actually meansTheir website, rented back to you every month.
What the package saysChanges on request.
What it actually meansA ticket, a wait, and someone else deciding.
What the package saysLeave any time.
What it actually meansLeave, and the site usually stays with them.
You're renting your own website.
It's common in the trades and it works the same way every time. Someone else builds the site, someone else hosts it, someone else owns it, and you pay monthly for the privilege. Want a change? Raise a ticket. Want to leave? You leave with nothing.
The thing is, the site's often doing a job. It ranks, it brings in work, and that's exactly what makes it hard to walk away from.
So the real question isn't whether the site is any good. It's how you take back something you don't own, without breaking the bit that's paying the bills.
How we move you
Move everything, lose nothing
Every page rebuilt with its content carried across intact. Where a page ranks, we keep what makes it rank: same structure, same terms, same intent, rather than rewriting it and hoping.
Redirects, page by page
Every old web address pointed at its new one, so the value built up over years transfers instead of evaporating.
Ownership sorted properly
Domain, hosting, site and analytics in your name, on accounts you control. No monthly fee for permission to exist.
Watched from day one
Analytics and Search Console in place before the switch, so we can see the move happen and catch anything that drifts the wrong way.
Then we make it better
Once it's settled, the bigger changes: sharper service pages, better photos, and content that goes after the work you actually want more of.
The honest bit.
Nobody can promise Google won't wobble when a site moves. Anyone who does is guessing.
What we can do is move carefully, map every page, keep what's working exactly as it is, and watch it closely until it's settled. The fancy changes wait until then. Sometimes the right first move isn't the impressive one, it's the one that doesn't cost you anything.
How it works
- 1
Talk
A short call. You tell us what you do and what the website isn't doing. We tell you straight whether we're the right people for it.
- 2
Dig
Paid discovery, where we get properly under the skin of the business, the customers and the competition. The fee comes off the project if you go ahead.
- 3
Map and Build
We plan the pages, write and design them, and build the site. You see it come together and sign off each stage.
- 4
Grow
Launch isn't the finish line. We watch how people actually use the site and keep improving it.
Done it before
Also worth a look
- WebsitesThe full service, and everything under it.
- Web design in LeedsWebsites for businesses that are better than their website.
- Ecommerce websitesShopify and WooCommerce shops built to sell.
- Websites for buildersBetter enquiries from the right clients, in the right areas.
- Website redesignRebuild it or fix it, and keep what Google already likes.
- Landing pagesPages for ads and campaigns that don't waste the clicks.
Take it back.
Want out of your website contract?
Tell us who hosts your site now and roughly what's on it. We'll tell you what moving would involve and whether it makes sense yet.
The aim is to keep them, and careful migrations usually settle back quickly. We keep the pages that rank, redirect every old address and watch Search Console through the move. Nobody honest can guarantee zero movement, but we can make it as low risk as it gets.
Almost always. If it's registered to you, we transfer it. If the provider registered it in their name, getting it released is part of the job, and we'll help you ask for it.
Check your notice period first. We'll plan the move around when you can leave, so you're not paying for two websites longer than you need to.
If your email runs through the same provider or domain, we plan that too, so nothing drops while the site moves.
It depends on how big the current site is and how much improvement you want alongside the move. Website projects start at £1,500 and you'll get a proper quote before anything starts.
Once rankings have settled, we can crack on with the bigger improvements. Or you can take it from there yourself. It's your site.