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Built by the search team, so there is nobody to hand the list to

Sites built by the people who would otherwise inherit the problems

Fast, accessible, search-ready builds — with every URL mapped and rankings watched daily through cutover. The dangerous part of a redesign is one afternoon, and that is the part we plan around.

5.0 from 60 reviewed projects

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Cutover · watched liveSenior strategist

Before the switch

  • 1,284 URLs inventoried from the live crawl
  • Redirect map tested on staging, no chains
  • Sitemaps regenerated and queued for submission

After

  • Rankings checked daily for thirty days
The on-page work was meticulous — they made the changes without disrupting the site and explained the reasoning behind each one. Our performance climbed steadily afterward.
Aliya VadilloAliya VadilloMarketing director

Brands across the industries we serve

PfizerOracleBlackstoneMedtronicWeWorkWalgreensKeller WilliamsITVNovo NordiskSwiss LifeGE AerospaceEmaarPfizerOracleBlackstoneMedtronicWeWorkWalgreensKeller WilliamsITVNovo NordiskSwiss LifeGE AerospaceEmaar
60

Client reviews published with real names

1,000

US markets with their own measured page one

76

Entities in our public knowledge graph

Since 2019

Building search programmes

What is Web Development at REO Rank?

High-performance, accessible websites — custom builds, WordPress, ongoing maintenance and ADA compliance — engineered to rank and convert.

  • 4+ specialised web development services included
  • KPI-tied retainers — no juniors learning on your dime
  • Pricing range: $1,000 one-time → From $5,000 /month
  • Free 30-min strategy call · senior team only
How a Web Development engagement is run

How we work

Why teams bring us in for Web Development

The usual arrangement is that an agency builds the site and an SEO team inherits the problems. We are both, so there is nobody to hand the list to — which changes what gets decided during the build rather than argued about after it.

Who fixes the search problems
Nobody has to. Semantic markup, crawlable navigation, schema and render strategy are decisions taken while the thing is being built, not defects written up afterwards by a different company. The search side of the same team
What happens to your rankings at launch
Every URL is mapped, every redirect tested before cutover, and rankings are watched daily through launch and for thirty days after. This is the step that gets skipped, and it is the one that costs a year.
What we build to
WCAG 2.1 AA, checked with a keyboard and a screen reader rather than an automated score, with an accessibility statement delivered. Core Web Vitals in the good band before handover — not as a ticket for later. What conformance actually involves
What you own at the end
The codebase, the design files, the CMS, the hosting credentials and the analytics setup. No proprietary builder to be locked into, and an hour of knowledge transfer at no charge if you are taking it in-house.
Who writes the code
Two named engineers, both of whom you can look up. Not a rotating pool, and not a subcontractor you will never be introduced to. Who they are
What it costs
Published, not quoted on request. A discovery audit from $1,000 and credited against the build; a conversion-first WordPress build from $2,500. Larger custom builds are scoped per project once discovery is done, so the number arrives with a fixed scope attached. Full pricing
The part nobody demos

A redesign is the most dangerous thing you can do to a site that works

Six weeks of design and build, and then the whole thing turns on one afternoon. Below is what a redirect map looks like when it is right, and the four ways it is usually wrong — each of which costs something different.

  1. /services/seo-audit301/services/seo/seo-audits

    One hop, to the page that genuinely replaced it. This is the entire job, done correctly, a few hundred times.

  2. /blog/2019/technical-seo301/insights/technical-seo

    Old structures get mapped too. An archive nobody links to internally is still an archive other people link to.

  3. /pricing-v2404—

    Missed entirely, usually because it was not in the CMS and nobody crawled the live site before rebuilding it. Every link pointing here now points at nothing.

  4. /case-study/acme301/

    Redirected to the homepage because there was no obvious equivalent. Google treats a mass redirect to the homepage as a soft 404 — so this is a 404 that also looks like an attempt to hide one.

  5. /product?id=12301 ×3/products/twelve

    A chain: old to interim to final, because two migrations happened and nobody collapsed the first one. It resolves, slowly, and every hop is a chance to lose the signal.

  6. /team/200/team

    Both versions live and both indexed. Not a redirect problem — a canonical one, and the kind that quietly splits a page’s authority in half.

None of this is exotic — it is just tedious, it happens on the day everyone is celebrating, and it is the first thing dropped when a build runs late. We inventory every URL in week one and watch rankings daily for thirty days after cutover, which is possible mainly because the people who would otherwise inherit the problem are the people doing the build. The technical side of the same team

What it has to talk to

A build is mostly integrations and those are set by your industry

The design is the part everyone discusses and the smallest part of the risk. What actually decides a build is the system it has to exchange data with every day — and that system is different in every one of these.

By vertical

Where the competitive picture is the thing we already know.

  • Real estate

    IDX and MLS feeds arrive on someone else’s schedule in someone else’s shape. Listings appear, sell and vanish weekly, and every one of them needs to be indexable while it exists and gone cleanly when it is not.

  • Hospitality

    The booking engine is usually a third-party iframe that owns the moment of conversion — so the job is making everything around it good enough that people reach it, and measuring a handoff you do not control.

  • Health and medical

    Forms carry protected information, so consent, storage and who receives the email are engineering decisions rather than marketing ones. Accessibility is not optional here either — it is the audience.

  • Legal

    Intake is the product. A form that loses a submission at 11pm on a Friday is a case that went to the firm whose form worked, and nobody finds out for weeks.

  • Home services

    Scheduling and dispatch software sits behind the booking button. Whether it has a usable API decides how much of the experience you actually control.

  • Managed IT and MSP

    Your buyers will read the source. A marketing site that is slow, inaccessible or obviously templated is a credibility problem in a way it simply is not elsewhere.

How it runs

Six to eight weeks, and the dangerous part is one afternoon

The FAQ below commits to 6–8 weeks for a marketing site and 10–14 for a custom build. What a schedule never shows is that the risk is not spread across them — it is concentrated at cutover, which is why three of these stages are about launching rather than building.

What happens at each stage
  1. Week 1Discovery, and a scope that is fixed
  2. Week 1–2Every existing URL inventoried
  3. Weeks 2–3Designed against real content
  4. Weeks 3–5Built semantic and accessible
  5. Week 5Redirect map written and tested
  6. Weeks 5–6Core Web Vitals passed before launch
  7. Weeks 6–8Cutover, watched as it happens
  8. 30 days afterRankings checked daily, not hoped for
01We treat Core Web Vitals as a build budget, not a post-launch scramble
Performance engineering

We treat Core Web Vitals as a build budget, not a post-launch scramble

Most sites fail Vitals because performance is checked after the design is signed off, when the expensive fixes are already baked in. We invert that: LCP, INP, and CLS get numeric budgets at architecture time, and the build fails CI if it exceeds them. The result is a site that is fast for real users on real phones, which is exactly what Google measures for ranking.

  • Explicit LCP, INP, and CLS budgets enforced in the build pipeline
  • Responsive AVIF/WebP images, sized to prevent layout shift
  • Render-blocking JS deferred; critical path server-rendered or pre-rendered
  • Validated against CrUX field data, not just a one-off lab score
02Rebuild the site without handing your rankings to a competitor
SEO-safe migrations

Rebuild the site without handing your rankings to a competitor

The single most common way agencies destroy organic traffic is launching a redesign with no redirect map, dropped metadata, and a broken internal-link graph. Because we own technical SEO in-house, our migrations are engineered end to end: crawl, map, preserve, stage, cut over, monitor. Traffic holds or grows through the launch instead of cratering the week after.

  • Full crawl of the old site with a 1:1 301 redirect map
  • Titles, canonicals, and structured data preserved page for page
  • Pre-cutover staging crawl to catch index and link issues early
  • 30 days of Search Console and log-file monitoring after launch

From our clients

What clients say about our Web Development work

Left on Upwork, on Fiverr, or sent to us directly. Every name and face below is a real person you could look up.

5average across 60 reviews left on Upwork, Fiverr and directly with us

  • We've partnered on multiple projects and the quality stays consistently impressive. Always proactive about valuable opportunities and a pleasure to work with.
    Toby IresonToby IresonAgency ownerupwork
  • Well-researched, well-structured content that actually aligns with the SEO strategy. Organized, easy to collaborate with, and consistently on time.
    Zoe AshbridgeZoe AshbridgeContent leadupwork
  • Everything stayed organized and every update was communicated clearly. The work was completed to a very high standard and I would collaborate again in a heartbeat.
    Lesley MurrayLesley MurrayClinic operations managerdirect
  • They rebuilt our city pages and fixed the local foundation properly. We're now showing up in the map pack across every territory we serve, and the phone actually rings because of it.
    Adam McChesneyAdam McChesneyHome-services ownerfiverr
  • The on-page work was meticulous — they made the changes without disrupting the site and explained the reasoning behind each one. Our performance climbed steadily afterward.
    Aliya VadilloAliya VadilloMarketing directordirect
  • Another smooth project from the team. They secured exactly the placements we needed, communicated clearly the whole way, and made the entire process effortless.
    Cameron JacksonCameron JacksonAgency ownerupwork
Our method, in the open

The two constraints we build against

Both of these are written down because they decide architecture, not decoration — and both are easier to get right before a line of code than after launch.

  1. Guide

    Core Web Vitals: LCP, INP and CLS

    What each one measures, and which build decisions actually move it.

  2. Research

    Is your JavaScript site invisible to AI crawlers?

    Most AI crawlers do not run your JavaScript. A site can rank on Google and be uncitable — and that is a rendering decision made at build time.

Before you commit

Whether to build it at all and who should

A custom build is the right answer less often than agencies admit. These lay out where a builder is genuinely enough, and the words a quote will assume you already know.

FAQs

Questions buyers ask before signing

Quick answers to the things buyers always check first.

How much does a new website cost?
A focused WordPress build with conversion-first design starts at $2,500. Larger custom builds are scoped per project. Pricing depends on page count, custom functionality and integrations. Our discovery audit ($1,000, credited toward the build) gives you a fixed scope and quote before you commit a dollar.
How long does the build take?
A standard marketing site takes 6–8 weeks from kickoff to launch, assuming timely content and feedback from your side. Larger custom builds with bespoke functionality run 10–14 weeks. We share a milestone schedule up front and track it on your live project dashboard, so you always know what is next and where we need your input.
Will a redesign hurt my search rankings?
Not when migration is handled properly — which is the failure point for most agencies. We map every URL, implement 301 redirects, preserve metadata, submit updated sitemaps and monitor rankings daily through launch and for 30 days after. If anything slips, we catch and fix it before it affects pipeline.
What accessibility and ADA compliance standard do you build to?
WCAG 2.1 AA on every site we build. We test with screen readers, keyboard navigation and contrast checkers, and deliver an accessibility statement. This reduces legal exposure from ADA web complaints while widening your reachable audience — including users on assistive technology and older devices.
Do you build on WordPress, or is it all custom?
Both. WordPress is our default for marketing and content sites — it gives you a clean CMS your team can operate without touching code. Custom builds (React, Next.js, Angular or a headless stack) are the right call for applications, complex integrations or performance requirements that templates cannot meet. We recommend the right fit in the discovery audit.
What do Core Web Vitals targets look like on your builds?
Every site we ship targets a 90+ Google PageSpeed score on mobile and desktop. That means image optimization, font loading, above-the-fold critical CSS, and no render-blocking scripts. For Core Web Vitals specifically, we target "Good" on LCP, INP and CLS — the thresholds Google uses as ranking signals — before handoff.
Is hosting and maintenance included?
Managed hosting, SSL, daily backups, a CDN, security monitoring and plugin/dependency updates are available as a separate maintenance retainer starting at $1,000/month. Hosting is on infrastructure we control, with 99.9% uptime and rapid support. If you prefer to host elsewhere, we deliver the project to your environment and document the setup.
What do we own at the end of the engagement?
Everything — the codebase, the design files, the CMS, the hosting account credentials, the analytics and tracking setup. There is no proprietary builder you are locked into. If you want to move the site or hand it to an in-house team, we give you a full handover package and an hour of knowledge transfer at no extra charge.
Do you handle content, or do we supply copy and images?
Both routes work. We can write conversion-focused copy and source licensed photography as a scoped add-on, or we take your supplied content and optimize it for the layout and search intent. Either way, nothing goes live until the copy is agreed and proofed.
How does web development integrate with your SEO services?
Because we own both disciplines, the site is engineered for search from day one — semantic HTML, schema markup, crawlable navigation, mobile-first performance and no JavaScript rendering traps. Most agencies build the site and then hand an SEO team a list of problems to fix. We ship the site already in "Good" technical SEO shape.
What reporting do you provide during the build?
A shared project board tracks every milestone with a live status column. A weekly Loom keeps you updated on progress, decisions made and anything we need from your side. After launch, the dashboard monitors PageSpeed, uptime and early conversion data so you know whether the new site is working before the first full month closes.

Still have questions? Talk to a specialist

Start here

Tell us what is wrong with the current site

Not a brief — just the thing that has become intolerable. You get back what we think the actual scope is, roughly what that costs, and whether a rebuild is even the right answer, which it often is not.

  • A reply within one business day, from an engineer
  • An honest scope, including “you do not need a rebuild for this”
  • No call required to get one

Would rather just email? hello@reorank.com

We reply from a real address and we do not add you to a mailing list.

Platforms we build on

Every platform we engineer to rank.

We ship platform-aware SEO engineering on the stacks below — each with its own ranking ceilings we know how to breach.

Custom themes, schema graph and Core Web Vitals on WordPress.

Speed, schema and product-feed SEO for Shopify stores.

Designer-friendly builds with production-grade output.

Velo programmatic SEO past the platform’s ranking ceilings.

Marketing-first CMS wired to your CRM funnel.

Bespoke stacks engineered for performance and rankings.

React SSR/SSG with Core Web Vitals and SEO built in.

Enterprise-grade SPA with TypeScript and SSR support.

Headless CMS, microservices and bespoke architecture.

The team

The two people who would build it

Two engineers, and you would work with both of them directly. There is no delivery manager in between, which is mostly why the search decisions get made during the build instead of after it.

Abdur Rahman Shah — Web & SaaS Engineer · DevOps

Abdur Rahman Shah

Web & SaaS Engineer · DevOps

Builds and ships the thing — WordPress through to custom applications — and runs the infrastructure underneath it, so hosting, deploys and the cutover are the same person’s problem.

Builds and ships the web layer — WordPress, custom web apps and SaaS architecture — with the DevOps to run it and the technical-SEO knowledge to make sure what he builds is fast, crawlable and built to rank.

Nimra Jabbar — Front-End Developer & SEO Specialist

Nimra Jabbar

Front-End Developer & SEO Specialist

Owns the front end and the technical SEO in the same pass: semantic markup, Core Web Vitals and the render strategy that decides whether a crawler can read the page at all.

Front-end developer and SEO specialist with a Master’s in Data Science. Builds fast, accessible interfaces and the on-page and technical SEO that make them rank — with experience spanning EdTech, enterprise systems and digital consulting.

MSc, Data Science

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