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Website Redesign Checklist For B2B Companies
A B2B redesign checklist should start with the current URL set, buyer questions, supporting detail, content gaps, and launch risks before visual work begins. The design should then improve the page system without losing crawlability, forms, or useful detail.
Before design starts
A redesign should begin with detail. Review the current sitemap, important pages, search queries, analytics, enquiries, sales objections, and supporting detail assets.
The goal is to understand what needs to change, what needs to be protected, and what the new site must help buyers decide.
- List all current URLs
- Identify pages with traffic, links, or enquiries
- Record weak messaging and missing supporting detail
- Define the new page jobs
- Agree the primary conversion paths
Ask us to audit your sitemap and enquiry path before redesign work starts.
Get a 3-point project reviewDuring the redesign
The redesign should turn the offer into a easier to understand structure: homepage, service pages, supporting detail sections, FAQs, pricing signals, process detail, and contact routes.
For B2B buyers, the page has to reduce risk. That means showing fit, expertise, process, detail, and next steps without forcing visitors to speak to sales too early.
Before launch
Launch checks should include forms, mobile layouts, metadata, canonicals, sitemap, robots, redirects, structured data, accessibility basics, and performance.
A redesign is only finished when the new site is usable, crawlable, and ready for live visitors.
Pre-launch checklist
- Before design: current sitemap, important URLs, analytics, search queries, supporting detail, and buyer objections.
- Content: page jobs, service hierarchy, FAQs, supporting detail sections, pricing signals, and contact routes.
- SEO: titles, descriptions, canonicals, redirects, internal links, sitemap, robots, and schema.
- UX: mobile layouts, headings, CTAs, forms, navigation, accessibility basics, and visual hierarchy.
- Post-launch: publication checks, form submissions, analytics events, priority fixes, and content updates.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Starting with homepage visuals before deciding what each page must do.
- Forgetting to assign owners for copy, supporting detail, technical checks, and launch review.
- Calling the redesign complete before mobile, forms, metadata, and redirects have been tested.
What 760 Studios would review first
- Current URL and content map
- Critical launch checks
- Which pages need redesign, rewrite, merge, or removal
Questions this article answers
What should a B2B company check before redesigning its website?
Check priority URLs, search queries, enquiries, sales objections, service pages, supporting detail, forms, analytics, mobile layouts, accessibility basics, and the pages that buyers already use.
Why should content be reviewed before design starts?
Content review shows what the design has to explain. Without it, the redesign can produce attractive sections that do not answer specific buyer questions or protect valuable pages.
What makes a redesign ready to launch?
The redesign is ready when pages are confirmed, redirects are mapped, metadata is complete, forms work, mobile layouts hold up, structured data matches visible content, and analytics can verify important actions.
How should B2B supporting detail be handled during a redesign?
Use confirmed case studies, screenshots, testimonials, method detail, or process artefacts. Do not invent outcomes or hide supporting detail so deeply that buyers cannot inspect it before contact.