Website redesign checklist for small businesses.

• It is awkward to use on a phone.
• The content no longer describes your business accurately.
• Visitors arrive but rarely contact you.
• It is slow, or parts of it are broken.
• You cannot update it without help.

• Save the data you have: Google Search Console queries and pages, and analytics if you use it.
• List every page on the current site, especially those that receive visitors.
• Decide for each page whether to keep, merge, rewrite or remove it.
• Note the current page titles and descriptions that are working.
• Agree the new page structure before any visual design begins.

• Make sure every address that changed points to its new equivalent.
• Check the site on a phone, and test every form and contact link.
• Check each page has its own title, description and one main heading.
• Submit the sitemap in Google Search Console.

Watch Search Console for crawl errors and for pages that stop appearing. Small drops are normal while search engines reprocess the site; address anything that stays broken.