Website Redesign · NZ Wide
Your website is costing you
customers every week.
We redesign slow, dated, invisible websites into ones that rank and convert. Rankings preserved, content migrated, and you own everything at the end. From $2,000.
River Path Home Loans
Manta5 Hydrofoils
Empower Software
PPC Foiling
Hofman Roofing
Hidden Springs
Agilis Consulting
Go Waipa
Presto Dryer
ZeroJet
Tectrax
Storage Care Hub
RB Thomas Builders
Airmax Website
Airmax - 10x Visibility in 28 Days
What a Redesign Can Do
63 clicks a month became 396. In two months.
Airmax came to us with the classic redesign case: a basic WordPress site that looked okay and had never sent a single lead. We rebuilt it as a 98-page, search-engineered site and relaunched with full redirect mapping.
Two months later: search visibility up 29x, Google clicks up from 63 to 396 a month, organic users up 630%. The owner's words: "Before you did what you did I'd be lucky to get 2 calls a day. Now I'm surprised if I don't get 10."
A redesign done properly isn't a cost. It's the highest-ROI marketing spend most businesses will ever make.
Do You Need One?
Six signs it's time to redesign.
You're invisible on Google
Your site exists, but searches for what you sell return your competitors. That's not a design problem - it's a depth and structure problem, and it's the most common reason we're called.
It looks dated next to competitors
Design credibility is real: visitors judge your business in seconds. If your site looks five years old, customers assume the business runs the same way.
It's slow, especially on mobile
Most NZ browsing is on phones. A site that takes four seconds to load loses half its visitors before they see anything - and Google demotes it for the same reason.
You can't edit it yourself
Every text change is an invoice and a two-week wait, so the site quietly goes stale. A redesigned site should come with training so updates take you ten minutes.
It gets traffic but no enquiries
Visitors arrive and bounce. Usually the site talks about you instead of solving their problem, and the path to contact is buried. Conversion is a structural fix.
It's held together with plugins
Ageing WordPress builds accumulate plugins, security patches, and breakage. At some point maintaining the old site costs more than replacing it with something modern.
The Process
Redesigned without losing what works.
The step most cheap redesigns skip is the migration engineering. It's the step that protects your rankings.
01
Audit What Works
Week 1
We audit your current site: what ranks, what converts, what's worth keeping. Every URL is mapped so nothing Google values gets lost in the move.
02
Rebuild Deeper
Weeks 2–3
New design, new structure, and much deeper content - every service and location on its own optimised page. AI-assisted development keeps it fast and affordable.
03
Migrate & Relaunch
Week 4
Full 301 redirect mapping preserves your existing rankings, analytics carries over, and every page is pushed into Google's index at launch. Then we train you to run it.
Our Work
Redesigns and builds for NZ businesses.
AI-assisted builds. Fast, search-optimised, and handed over so the owner can edit themselves.
PPC Foiling
ZeroJet
Agilis Jettenders
Tectrax
Manta5
Hidden Springs Retreat
Trailer World
Empower Software
Common redesign questions.
How much does a website redesign cost in NZ?
Redesigns are priced the same as our builds: from $2,000 for a simple site, from $4,000 for advanced marketing sites and ecommerce. Fixed-price quote upfront after we've audited your current site. No hourly-rate mystery.
Will I lose my Google rankings when the site changes?
Not if the migration is done properly - this is the single most important part of a redesign and the step cheap redesigns skip. We map every existing URL to its new home with 301 redirects, preserve the content Google already values, and typically see rankings improve within weeks because the new site is structurally stronger.
Can you redesign a WordPress, Wix, or Squarespace site?
Yes - moving off those platforms is most of our redesign work. We migrate your content, rebuild on a modern stack (Next.js), and you come out the other side owning everything with no subscription and nothing to maintain.
What results can I expect?
Our benchmark is Airmax: their old WordPress site never sent a single lead. Two months after our rebuild, Google clicks went from 63 to 396 a month, organic users rose 630%, and the owner went from 2 calls a day to 10. Every site is different, but that's what a redesign engineered for search can do.
How long does a redesign take?
Most redesigns launch in 3-4 weeks from kickoff. Larger sites with big content migrations can take 6-8 weeks. Your current site stays live untouched until the new one is ready to switch over.
Can I keep my domain and email?
Yes. Your domain, email, and Google Business Profile all stay exactly as they are - we just point the domain at the new site at launch. Zero downtime, no email disruption.
Will I be able to edit the new site myself?
Yes - that's core to how we work. Full handover with training and documentation, so updating text, adding pages, and publishing posts is something you do in minutes, not something you pay for.
My site was built by an agency that won't hand it over. Can you help?
Usually, yes. Even when a site is locked inside a proprietary platform, your content and domain can almost always be recovered and rebuilt into something you own outright. We've done this rescue more than once - get in touch and we'll tell you your options.
Related services & reading
More on how we rebuild websites that earn their keep.
Case Studies
Real results from real businesses.
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Airmax
A basic WordPress site replaced with a 98-page, search-optimised website - built with AI. Two months later: search visibility up 29x, Google clicks up 6x, and the phone doesn't stop.
1 → 10+
Calls per day
29x
Search visibility, 2 months
Empower Software
A workshop-software company with a tight ad budget and a flat year behind it. Three months later: a paid lead engine that scales, a search-optimised site pulling free organic traffic, and the first leads landing in Australia.
31
Qualified workshop leads, first 3 months
~$102
Cost per qualified lead
Alpha Trailers
A tired WordPress site replaced with a fast, search-optimised website - built with AI, live in six weeks. The owner now edits it himself in plain English.
199
Google clicks, first week
4,360
Impressions, first week
River Path Home Loans
A team of mortgage advisers left an established brokerage to start their own firm - no brand, no website, no online presence. Seven days later they had all three.
7
Days to launch
55+
Pages built
PPC Foiling
From 7 dealers to 95 - how a Kiwi wing foiling brand built a global B2B channel from scratch with King Tide.
7→95
Dealers across NA & Europe
Consistent
Reorders from dealer network
Smart Housing Solutions
From tyre-kickers to 6 signed contracts in two weeks. How a husband-and-wife tiny home business in New Zealand transformed their marketing from scattered to strategic.
6
Contracts in 2 weeks
10+
Quality leads per week
Testimonials
Don't take our word for it.
“The team deliver results at more than twice the pace and impact than normal marketing executives. A real hands on do and deliver team. Jumping from strategy to execution and results in days. The best marketing exec I have ever worked with.”
Mark Robotham
CEO, Manta5
“Louis has a rare and hard-to-find talent for reaching and engaging a target market. He made marketing a core competency of our business. I'm still blown away by the reach and engagement we had on social media and the thousands of enquiries we received over the years.”
Guy Howard-Willis
Founder, Torpedo 7
“The foiling industry is super competitive, and standing out isn't easy. We've made huge progress - we're selling more to end consumers and signing up dealers faster than we ever have. It's momentum.”
Sam Loader
Founder, PPC Foiling
“The team at King Tide are great people to work with. They strike a rare balance between big picture strategic thinking and sharp execution to ensure they deliver actual results, not just glossy reports. Highly recommend.”
Greg Johnston
37 South Capital
“Louis and Ella at King Tide are incredible, after a full brief, intel gathering and outlining our current frustrations and what we were looking for, these guys delivered!! Not only were they incredibly responsive, but they were also intuitive to tap into our Industry to produce result quickly, collaboratively and without fuss - would 100% recommend.”
Cherrie Wheeler
Presto Resourcing
“We've been using King Tide for 12 months as a general advisor for all marketing. The improvement we've seen in our business is off the charts and I see no other reason for it. They're awesome to deal with, incredibly knowledgeable, and their advice works. Can not recommend enough.”
Jake
RB Thomas Building
Wondering what your current site is costing you?
Send us your URL and we'll tell you honestly what's worth keeping, what's holding you back, and a fixed price to fix it. Sometimes the answer is "your site is fine" - we'll say that too.