Rebuilding a site you already have

Hand over the old address first

The chat starts the same way for everyone, with questions about services, areas and who you serve. The difference for a rebuild is that you give the assistant your existing website address. It reads that site to fill gaps in what you say.

It does not copy the old site. Every new page is written from a conversation, and the old site is a source of facts, not of sentences. If your prices live in a spreadsheet, share a Google Sheet read-only and the assistant reads that as well.

Decide what stays, what merges, and what goes

Before the build runs you see the planned pages and what the build costs. This is the moment to compare that list with the old site. A service you dropped can go. Two thin pages can become one genuinely useful one. A page people still ask about stays.

You approve the plan, and only then is anything written. The redesign guide walks through the thinking behind that list.

Old page addresses, kept or pointed elsewhere

Every page on the new site gets a clean address. If an old address is still the right name for a page, tell the assistant during the chat and raise it when you review the planned pages.

Where an old page truly goes away, two things can happen. A 301 redirect tells search engines the page moved for good. Whether you can set one depends on where the old site and your DNS live, and the assistant walks you through third-party steps like that. Otherwise the address returns a branded not-found page with a real 404 status, which is honest and which search engines understand. The not-found page guide explains why that status matters.

Do not leave old addresses to chance. Make a short list of the ones that appear in print, in your email signature, or on a van, and decide each one on purpose.

Review on a free address, then publish on your date

The new site goes live on a free address as soon as it passes the check. Your old site keeps running on your domain while you read every new page.

Read them the way a customer would, on a phone, starting from the home page. If a sentence is wrong, ask the in-app assistant to change it. If a page is missing, add it in one click for About, Contact or FAQ, or write one yourself in plain paragraphs.

When you are happy, schedule the publish for a date and time in your own time zone and switch the domain with one DNS record. The SSL certificate is issued for you. Every publish keeps a version you can roll back to, so a bad day is reversible.

What to check the week after launch

A short list, done once on a phone and once on a desktop.

• Open every page and read the title and heading; one main heading per page
• Send a test lead from the form and confirm it arrives where it should
• Tap the phone number and the Text us link
• Type an old address that went away and confirm the not-found page returns a 404
• Add your Google Search Console verification token in its one field
• Confirm the sitemap lists the new pages
• Look at page views and conversions, counted on the server from the first visit

Which plan a rebuild lands on

One business on one domain fits Starter at $99 per month: 10 websites, up to 25 pages each. If the old site was really several businesses in one, Growth at $199 gives each its own site, 25 websites with up to 50 pages each.

Every plan is checked the same way, validated against Google Search Essentials and modern web standards, and every plan starts with a 15-day free trial with a card.

What the rebuild will not bring across

If the old site had a blog, those posts are not something the builder offers yet. If it sold products, there is no online store checkout on the new site today. If it had a second language, only English is offered. Knowing that before you start is better than finding out after.