Funny to get sent this to demonstrate the how desperate some cold-calling bedroom website designers that want you to trust your website / business to them after a phone call from a ‘stranger’ from 300 miles away! The reason why people phone you and try to persuade you that your website is in bad shape and that you need to let them help you via a website resign is that they are no good at what they are doing, otherwise they wouldn’t have time to phone you. You can learn a lot by someones answers and this website designer’s response to the potential loss of website visitors demonstrates quite clearly his total lack of SEO undertanding.
[Web Designers] Basically all I need from yourselves is the log in details for your current hosting provider. We back up your old site as standard practice and we can have your new site up and running within 7 days from when you pay the invoice. I would obviously give you a call to finalise exactly what it is we will be doing in terms of design/pages etc
[Website Owners] I think the login details are with the current website guy. How do i get them from him? I do want to update a few images and get some testimonials etc
[Web Designers] Just ring him and ask for them he shouldn’t have a problem with it or send me his number and I’ll ring him.
[Web Designers] He has replied to me and expressed his unhappiness. Basically has said you are a bedroom amateur (not in those exact words). Your website design prices are fantasy but then I did tell him £175. He says you haven’t been established long and I could risk my website that currently is doing really well for us and to be honest it is. He obviously doesn’t want to lose us. We been using them for 5 years. I just don’t rate his work that much however our site does do well. I’m just confused now but in principle yes half upfront wouldn’t be a problem.
[Web Designers] And in answer to his statement that we could ruin any rankings you have that just isn’t true at all. We make a full back up of your old and we are replicating every page and using the same page titles. I guarantee that the new site will rank better than the old site as the code would be much newer and we install an SEO plugin called Yoast that make sure everything is perfected in terms of on site SEO.
And at the minute you are losing at least 50% of your traffic as your site is not mobile friendly. Your new site will be on the very latest CMS platform using the very latest code and will be mobile friendly so it will bring in more traffic if anything! You will not lose any rankings I can assure you of that, in fact I will offer a full refund and re-install the old website back to the original if that happens. That’s my personal guarantee.