[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":497},["ShallowReactive",2],{"help-\u002Fhelp\u002Fconvert-my-site":3,"help-related-\u002Fhelp\u002Fconvert-my-site":491},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"category":479,"description":480,"extension":481,"meta":482,"navigation":483,"order":484,"path":485,"product":486,"seo":487,"stem":488,"updated":489,"__hash__":490},"help\u002Fhelp\u002Fconvert-my-site.md","Convert your current website",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":462},"minimark",[9,19,24,67,82,89,93,151,154,161,166,173,176,179,182,193,197,200,203,207,226,229,249,252,256,283,294,297,325,332,336,346,377,380,384,392,396,410,445,448,455,459],[10,11,12,13,18],"p",{},"Already have a website? Give us its address and we'll move your content into a new, modern design. You get a free preview to look around before you pay anything. No website yet? See ",[14,15,17],"a",{"href":16},"\u002Fhelp\u002Fstart-without-a-website","Start without a website",".",[20,21,23],"h2",{"id":22},"get-your-free-preview","Get your free preview",[25,26,27,41,61],"ol",{},[28,29,30,31,35,36,40],"li",{},"Go to ",[14,32,34],{"href":33},"\u002Fconvert","Convert my site"," and choose ",[37,38,39],"strong",{},"Yes"," under \"Do you have a website now?\".",[28,42,43,44,47,48,52,53,56,57,60],{},"Under ",[37,45,46],{},"Your current website",", type its address, for example ",[49,50,51],"code",{},"yourbusiness.com",", and add ",[37,54,55],{},"Your email",". Your name, business name and ",[37,58,59],{},"Anything we should know?"," are optional.",[28,62,63,64,18],{},"Tick the box to confirm it's your business's website, then choose ",[37,65,66],{},"Get my free preview",[10,68,69,70,73,74,77,78,18],{},"Is your website on Square Online (an address ending in ",[49,71,72],{},"square.site",")? Square shows a security check to programs like ours, so we can't copy it. Choose ",[37,75,76],{},"Connect Square"," instead: we fill in your details, services and photos from your Square account. See ",[14,79,81],{"href":80},"\u002Fhelp\u002Fstart-without-a-website#start-from-your-square-account","Start from your Square account",[10,83,84,85,88],{},"We start right away. It usually takes about 10 minutes. Click ",[37,86,87],{},"Watch it being built",", or close the page: we email you a link when your preview is ready. While you watch, we show what we found on your current site: its mobile speed and the search checks it misses.",[20,90,92],{"id":91},"what-we-copy","What we copy",[94,95,96,102,111,117,123,129,135,141],"ul",{},[28,97,98,101],{},[37,99,100],{},"Your words."," Headlines, descriptions of your services, your story, prices and frequently asked questions. We tidy up wordy text and typos, but keep your own words.",[28,103,104,107,108,18],{},[37,105,106],{},"Your photos."," We use the best photos from your site and make them load quickly. Where a section has no good photo, we may use one of our drawings instead, in your site's colors. To use your own photo, click the drawing in the editor and choose ",[37,109,110],{},"Change",[28,112,113,116],{},[37,114,115],{},"Your menu and specials."," If your menu or price list is a photo or a PDF, or your deals are pictures with the words drawn in, we type them out, so customers can read them on any phone and Google can find them.",[28,118,119,122],{},[37,120,121],{},"Your business details."," Name, phone, email, address, opening hours and social media links.",[28,124,125,128],{},[37,126,127],{},"Your lists."," Reviews quoted on your site, your team, events, news posts, job openings and projects.",[28,130,131,134],{},[37,132,133],{},"Your shop, blog and events calendar."," If you sell on Shopify or WooCommerce, your products come across exactly, with their prices, choices, stock and photos (up to 100). On a WordPress site, your newest blog posts and the events in The Events Calendar come across exactly too.",[28,136,137,140],{},[37,138,139],{},"Your brand colors."," If your site has a clear brand color, your new site uses it. Otherwise we pick a ready-made color scheme that suits your business.",[28,142,143,146,147,18],{},[37,144,145],{},"Your old links."," Every old page address is set up to lead to its new page, so bookmarks and Google results keep working. See ",[14,148,150],{"href":149},"\u002Fhelp\u002Fredirects","Redirects",[10,152,153],{},"We convert up to 25 pages of your site. Similar pages are combined, and pages like old blog archives are left out.",[10,155,156,157,160],{},"Your free preview has your 10 most important pages. If your new site needs more, the others are in the menu and show a ",[37,158,159],{},"Launch to finish this page"," button. We write them when you launch, before your site goes live, at no extra cost.",[162,163,165],"h3",{"id":164},"sites-with-more-than-25-pages","Sites with more than 25 pages",[10,167,168,169,172],{},"If your site has more pages than that, we list the ones we didn't write in your preview's menu too. They show a ",[37,170,171],{},"Finish the build"," button. Choose it to have every page written now, so you can look through your whole site before deciding to launch.",[10,174,175],{},"The price is shown on the launch page, and depends on the size of your site. You pay it once, separately from launching. It comes off the conversion fee if you launch month to month. On the yearly plan, which has no conversion fee, it isn't refunded.",[10,177,178],{},"Pages appear in your preview as they're finished, and we email you when they're all done. If we can't write a page, it keeps its placeholder and we try it again when you launch, at no charge.",[10,180,181],{},"If you launch without finishing the build, those pages leave your menu and their old addresses lead to the closest page. Old blog posts we didn't copy lead to the page where your posts are.",[10,183,184,185,188,189,192],{},"To see all of this for your own site, open your preview and choose ",[37,186,187],{},"Try the editor",". It opens on ",[37,190,191],{},"Overview",", which lists what we converted and what we didn't, your search, speed and accessibility report, and what won't work until you launch.",[20,194,196],{"id":195},"what-we-never-do","What we never do",[10,198,199],{},"We don't make anything up. If your site doesn't mention something, like your hours or customer reviews, the preview leaves it out instead of guessing. The email with your preview link lists anything worth adding.",[10,201,202],{},"We only read pages your site allows search engines to read, and we only copy a site when you tell us it's yours or you have permission.",[20,204,206],{"id":205},"check-your-preview","Check your preview",[10,208,209,210,213,214,217,218,221,222,225],{},"Open the link in the email. The first time, a window says ",[37,211,212],{},"This is the new site for"," your business and lists things to try. Click ",[37,215,216],{},"Start looking",". To see it again, click ",[37,219,220],{},"?"," next to ",[37,223,224],{},"Free preview"," at the top.",[10,227,228],{},"Click around, just as a customer would. Look at:",[94,230,231,237,243],{},[28,232,233,236],{},[37,234,235],{},"Phone number, address and hours."," They show in several places, so make sure they're right.",[28,238,239,242],{},[37,240,241],{},"Prices."," Old sites often have out-of-date prices.",[28,244,245,248],{},[37,246,247],{},"Photos."," Check each photo shows what its section is about.",[10,250,251],{},"Forms in the preview don't send anything, so you can try them safely. To see it on a phone or tablet, click the computer, tablet and phone buttons in the bar at the top.",[20,253,255],{"id":254},"try-another-design","Try another design",[25,257,258,269,276],{},[28,259,260,261,264,265,268],{},"In the bar at the top, click ",[37,262,263],{},"Design:"," and the name of the current design (on a phone, just ",[37,266,267],{},"Design",").",[28,270,271,272,275],{},"Click a design in the row that opens. The first one is ",[37,273,274],{},"Picked for you",". The preview changes at once; your words, photos and pages stay the same.",[28,277,278,279,282],{},"Click ",[37,280,281],{},"Done"," to close the row.",[10,284,285,286,289,290,18],{},"Trying a design only changes what you see here. Your site launches with the design we picked, and you can switch any time after launch in ",[37,287,288],{},"Theme",". See ",[14,291,293],{"href":292},"\u002Fhelp\u002Ftheme-and-brand-colors#pick-a-design","Pick a design",[20,295,187],{"id":296},"try-the-editor",[25,298,299,308,315],{},[28,300,278,301,303,304,307],{},[37,302,187],{}," in the bar at the top (",[37,305,306],{},"Editor"," on a phone). A practice editor opens in a new tab, with your preview in it.",[28,309,310,311,18],{},"Change words, photos and colors, and watch the preview update. See ",[14,312,314],{"href":313},"\u002Fhelp\u002Fgetting-started","Getting started with the editor",[28,316,317,318,321,322,225],{},"When you're done, click ",[37,319,320],{},"Back to the preview"," or ",[37,323,324],{},"Launch this site",[10,326,327,328,331],{},"Nothing you change there is saved to your site, and publishing is turned off. ",[37,329,330],{},"Start over"," at the end of the left menu puts everything back as we made it. Once your site is launched, you edit it the same way in your own editor.",[20,333,335],{"id":334},"read-the-search-and-speed-report","Read the search and speed report",[10,337,278,338,341,342,345],{},[37,339,340],{},"Search & speed report"," at the top of the preview (",[37,343,344],{},"Report"," on a phone) to see your current site and your new one side by side:",[94,347,348,359,365,371],{},[28,349,350,353,354,358],{},[37,351,352],{},"Search, AI answers and basics."," We run the same checks on both sites, the ones your editor shows under ",[14,355,357],{"href":356},"\u002Fhelp\u002Fsearch-and-sharing","Search and sharing",": search titles and descriptions, a main heading on each page, share photos, your town, questions answered, business details Google and AI tools can read, a sitemap and working links.",[28,360,361,364],{},[37,362,363],{},"Accessibility basics."," On every page of your current site we check what people who use screen readers or zoom in need: a description on each picture, words on every link and button (social icons too), links that say where they go, headings in order, labels on form fields, the page's language, and whether people can zoom in on a phone. A menu or specials that are only a picture or a PDF count against it, because a screen reader can't read them; we type them out for your new site.",[28,366,367,370],{},[37,368,369],{},"Mobile speed."," Google PageSpeed Insights scores your current site on a phone, out of 100. The preview isn't your finished site, so we score our demo site the same day for comparison. Once your site is live we score it too, and your dashboard shows the before and after.",[28,372,373,376],{},[37,374,375],{},"What we did."," While writing your pages we fix what we can from your own content, like search titles that are too long or a missing share photo. We don't make anything up to pass a check.",[10,378,379],{},"The report shows what the checks find. It can't promise a place in Google's results, and the accessibility checks are automated basics: they find some of what makes a site hard to use, not all of it.",[20,381,383],{"id":382},"launch-it","Launch it",[10,385,386,387,389,390,18],{},"If you like it, choose ",[37,388,324],{}," at the top of the preview, and sign in with the email the preview was sent to. You pay for your plan (plus a one-time conversion fee if you choose monthly), and we set up your site. After that, you can change every word and photo yourself. See ",[14,391,314],{"href":313},[20,393,395],{"id":394},"host-it-yourself-instead","Host it yourself instead",[10,397,398,399,401,402,405,406,409],{},"You don't have to host with us. If you'd rather put the converted site on your own host, you can buy its files instead of launching: a one-time $149, with no monthly fee. Open ",[37,400,191],{}," in the practice editor and choose ",[37,403,404],{},"Download this site",", or find ",[37,407,408],{},"Or host it yourself"," at the bottom of the launch page, and pay on the secure Stripe page.",[94,411,412,418,427,433,439],{},[28,413,414,417],{},[37,415,416],{},"You get the whole site."," Its code, words and photos, with a README that shows how to run it on your computer, put it in Git and choose a host such as Cloudflare Pages, Netlify or GitHub Pages. Your old web addresses are set to lead to the new pages, on hosts that read redirects.",[28,419,420,423,424,426],{},[37,421,422],{},"It's only sold when every page is written."," If your site has pages we didn't convert, the button waits until you've used ",[37,425,171],{},", so you never pay for half a site. Pages we still owe you from the free preview are written for you first, at no extra cost.",[28,428,429,432],{},[37,430,431],{},"Read through it first."," The pages were written by AI from your current site, so check the words, phone number, address and hours before you put it live.",[28,434,435,438],{},[37,436,437],{},"The price is the same for everyone and nothing comes off it."," A full build you paid for doesn't reduce it, and it isn't refunded once your download is made.",[28,440,441,444],{},[37,442,443],{},"Forms, bookings and a store don't come with it,"," because they run on services we host. The README lists what to use instead.",[10,446,447],{},"It takes a few minutes. We email you when it's ready, and it stays on your launch page so you can download it again any time. If you launch the site with us later, you pay for the plan as usual.",[10,449,450,451,18],{},"If you launch with us, you never need this: you can download your site free, any time. See ",[14,452,454],{"href":453},"\u002Fhelp\u002Fleaving-us","Taking your site with you",[20,456,458],{"id":457},"if-something-went-wrong","If something went wrong",[10,460,461],{},"Some sites build their pages entirely with JavaScript, and we can't read those yet. If your preview can't be built automatically, our team finishes it and emails you. 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