Website Redesign · Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids Website Redesign that turns an aging site into a lead engine without losing your rankings
Cedar Rapids Website Redesign Company
An outdated site quietly costs you jobs every week: slow, clumsy on a phone, easy for a Cedar Rapids homeowner to scroll right past. We redesign contractor sites to convert more and load faster, and we migrate carefully so you keep every bit of ranking you've earned.
- Built for the trades
- Storm-season ready
- No lock-in contracts
I'll be straight with you: I started OnwardCraft because I kept watching good contractors hand Angi and HomeAdvisor a few grand a month for leads that three of their competitors bought too. You can't build a business on rented leads. So that's the whole point of what we do here — get you ranking and converting for the work you actually want, in the neighborhoods you actually serve, and let those leads belong to you. No 12-month handcuffs. If it's not working, you fire us.
A Cedar Rapids Website Redesign goes one of two bad ways when it goes wrong: the site looks better but books the same number of jobs, or it launches and the rankings drop off a cliff. We do neither. We rebuild Cedar Rapids contractor sites for speed and conversions, build them mobile-first to survive storm-season traffic surges, and handle an SEO-safe migration with the redirects and care that protect the traffic you already have.
How do I redesign my website without losing SEO and traffic?
You protect SEO during a redesign by keeping your URL structure (or mapping 301 redirects for every changed page), preserving your existing content and metadata, migrating your schema, and testing everything on staging before launch. Done right, a redesign keeps your rankings and improves them, because the new site is faster, mobile-first, and better structured than the old one.
The Cedar Rapids market
Why ranking in Cedar Rapids is a moving target
Cedar Rapids is a working manufacturing and grain-processing town of roughly 280,000 across the metro, and the smell of toasted oats over the river tells you who built it. Quaker Oats, Cargill, General Mills, and Collins Aerospace fill the payroll with engineers, line workers, and tradespeople who buy homes, keep them a long time, and watch every dollar. They search the same way the rest of the country does now: on a phone, with "near me" tacked on, tapping one of the first names Google drops on the map. What sets eastern Iowa apart is the weather. In August 2020 a derecho with winds past 100 mph tore through the city in under an hour, shredding the tree canopy and chewing up thousands of roofs, and crews are still working through that rebuild. Layer on the 2008 Cedar River flood that put downtown under water, plus long snowbound winters and spring tornadoes, and demand here does not drift. It jumps. The contractors already ranking are the ones who answer when it does.
When the next storm rolls through eastern Iowa, the contractors already ranking are the ones who book the work.
- Homeowners · 64%
- Renters · 36%
The real problem
Signs your Cedar Rapids site is overdue for a redesign
It looks dated and costs you trust
On a high-ticket job, a homeowner sizes you up by your site in a few seconds. An old, cluttered design quietly sends them to a competitor who simply looks more established, even when your work is the better bet. For value-minded Cedar Rapids buyers who price every job, that first impression often decides who gets the call.
It's slow and hard to use on a phone
If your site is clunky or slow on mobile, you're losing most of your Cedar Rapids visitors before they ever reach your offer. A redesign built mobile-first wins them back and turns them into leads.
It can't keep up when demand surges
Traffic that never becomes a call is wasted money, and an old site that crawls under a storm-season surge loses leads at the exact moment they're worth the most. We rebuild for conversions and for the days after a derecho or ice storm when your phone should not stop ringing.
What we do
What's in an OnwardCraft redesign
Redesign audit
We pin down exactly what's costing you leads and rankings today, so the redesign fixes the real problems instead of just swapping the colors around.
SEO-safe migration
Redirects, metadata, and schema handled properly so you hold on to the rankings and traffic you've already earned in Cedar Rapids.
Conversion redesign
Clear offers, smarter call-to-action placement, and lead forms homeowners actually use. We design for booked jobs, not just a nicer screenshot.
Speed overhaul
We rebuild for fast load and passing Core Web Vitals, which lifts conversions and rankings together.
Mobile-first rebuild
Redesigned around the phone, where nearly all of your Cedar Rapids traffic actually lives.
Brand refresh
A modern, trustworthy look that matches the quality of your work and the price of the jobs you want to book.
Storm-surge ready rebuild
Rebuilt to stay fast and keep converting when storm-season traffic spikes, so the new site captures your biggest jobs instead of choking on them.
AI-search ready
Structured so AI Overviews and ChatGPT can read and recommend you as more Cedar Rapids search shifts toward AI.
How we work
How we redesign: a careful rebuild
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Audit and plan
We dig into what's losing you leads and rankings, then map a redesign that fixes it without breaking what already works.
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Design
A modern, mobile-first, conversion-focused design you review and shape before we build a thing.
- 3
Rebuild and migrate
We rebuild fast and prepare every redirect and SEO detail for a clean, no-surprises migration.
- 4
Launch with SEO care
We launch with redirects in place and watch closely so your rankings hold and climb instead of dropping.
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Optimize
Post-launch tuning based on what's converting, plus ongoing speed and updates.
The honest math
No logo wall yet, so here's the honest math instead
Plenty of agencies open with a grid of client logos. We are a young, founder-led shop in eastern Iowa, and we are not going to dress up a track record we haven't earned yet. What we can put in front of you is the reasoning behind the work, pulled straight from Google's and the industry's published research on how people pick a local contractor.
Here's a rough sketch, marked plainly as a projection and not a result we're claiming: say a Cedar Rapids contractor pulls around 1,200 local "near me" impressions a month. Climbing out of page-two invisibility into the top three is the gap between a handful of stray calls and a booked-out calendar, and after a derecho or an ice storm that gap only widens. In your free audit we run the real numbers for your shop: your rankings, your search volume, and a straight 90-to-180-day path.
Figures above are published benchmarks (Google / BrightLocal) and an illustrative projection. They are not past results claimed by OnwardCraft.
Transparent pricing
Transparent Cedar Rapids redesign pricing
One-time project. 50% to start, 50% at launch. You own everything. No lock-in.
Redesign Starter
A focused redesign for a small contractor site.
- Up to 5 pages rebuilt
- Mobile-first redesign
- SEO-safe migration
- Conversion improvements
- You own the site
Redesign Growth
A full redesign for an established contractor site.
- Up to 12 pages
- Custom design + copy refresh
- Speed overhaul
- Service + neighborhood pages
- Storm-surge ready
Full Rebuild
A complete rebuild for multi-service or multi-location sites.
- Full custom rebuild
- Advanced SEO migration
- Integrations & booking
- High-traffic performance
- AI-search optimization
Why us
Why Cedar Rapids businesses pick OnwardCraft
We only do the trades
Roofing, HVAC, plumbing, solar, electrical, restoration, general contractors. We know what an insurance roof claim reads like after a wind event, how a frozen-pipe call lands at 6 a.m. in January, and how the derecho rebuild backlog still books work, so what we build lines up with how Cedar Rapids homeowners actually search.
We get you off rented leads
The goal is a pipeline that belongs to you. Not one more check every month to a broker for the same NewBo or Marion homeowner that three other contractors are already calling.
We actually speak Cedar Rapids
Derecho rebuild that is still running, Cedar River flood cleanup that goes back to 2008, value-minded Quaker Oats and Collins Aerospace families who price every job, and street-level targeting from Wellington Heights out to Hiawatha. A national agency can't fake that by swapping a city name in a template.
No contracts, no mystery
Prices are posted. Reporting points at real leads, not vanity charts. You go month-to-month after the first 90 days, and if the work isn't paying for itself you cut us loose. That keeps the pressure on us, where it belongs.
Cedar Rapids Website Redesign FAQ
Questions Cedar Rapids owners ask us
How much does a website redesign cost in Cedar Rapids?
Most redesigns with us run $2,500 to $9,000 as a one-time project, depending on size and integrations. Fixed price, no surprises, and you own the result outright.
Will I lose my Google rankings if I redesign?
Not if it's done carefully, and that's exactly how we work. We map 301 redirects for every changed URL, preserve content and metadata, migrate your schema, and test on staging first. Done right, a redesign holds your rankings and usually pushes them higher.
How long does a redesign take?
A focused redesign takes about 3 to 5 weeks; a larger rebuild takes 5 to 9. You get a firm timeline up front and updates at every stage.
How do I know I need a redesign?
If your site is slow on phones, looks dated, is a pain to update, isn't bringing in leads, or buckles when storm-season traffic surges, it's costing you work. The free audit tells you plainly whether a redesign is worth it for your Cedar Rapids business.
Do you migrate my existing content?
Yes. We carry over and sharpen your existing content, preserve what's ranking, and handle the technical migration so nothing important slips through the cracks.
Will the new site handle storm-season traffic?
Yes, and in Cedar Rapids that's a real consideration. After the 2020 derecho, contractor sites took a surge of traffic, and the slow ones lost leads. We rebuild for speed and keep the call to action obvious so the site converts when demand peaks.
Will the new site be mobile-friendly and fast?
Yes. We rebuild mobile-first and tune for fast load and Core Web Vitals, which lifts both conversions and rankings.
Do I own the redesigned site?
Completely: the site, the domain, and the content. No platform lock-in of any kind.
Am I locked into a contract?
No. The redesign is a one-time project. Any ongoing maintenance or SEO is month-to-month.
What's in the free redesign audit?
A clear read on what your current site is costing you in leads and rankings, what the redesign should fix, and a fixed-price quote with a timeline and a safe migration plan for your Cedar Rapids Website Redesign.
Who we serve
The trades we build for in Cedar Rapids
We do not work with restaurants, startups, or law firms. Every site, campaign, and lead system is tuned to how home-service contractors actually win work in Cedar Rapids.
Roofing
Insurance-claim homeowners and storm work, captured the moment they search.
HVAC
Win the July and January emergency calls, then stay booked in spring and fall.
Plumbing
Own the 2am burst-pipe search with map-pack rankings and a site that converts.
Solar
Lower lead costs with education-led content that closes the long solar sale.
Electrical
Panel upgrades to EV chargers, framed to win safety-sensitive work.
Restoration
Capture urgent water and fire searches and the insurance referrals behind them.
Areas we serve
Website Redesign across Cedar Rapids
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