Software house redesign: High-risk SEO pivot & corporate architecture rebuild

Turning a high-traffic, low-converting developer site into a precision lead generation asset. We executed a surgical SEO pruning operation and completely restructured the site’s architecture and front-end design to align their digital presence with their real-world authority.

Objectives

• Architectural clarity: Standardize URL routing, eliminate severe index bloat, and resolve homepage keyword cannibalization.
• Intent-driven SEO: Shift ranking focus away from generic coding queries to high-intent keywords targeting corporate and mid-market clients.
• Premium UI/UX: Overhaul the visual identity with a fully responsive, modern design system that highlights their technical capabilities.
• Bilingual authority: Deploy a seamless, two-language setup to capture national and international corporate search volume.

Challenges

Despite a track record of serving Tier-1 national clients like Lippo Group, Siloam Hospitals, and Cinema XXI, the legacy website was engineered with functional logic rather than search-engine architecture. This created a massive disconnect:

• Severe index bloat: The legacy CMS auto-generated over 400 redundant archive pages, creating massive technical overhead and diluting the site’s overall ranking power.
• Mixed-language keyword stuffing: The legacy copy awkwardly mashed English paragraphs together with Indonesian local keywords (e.g., “Jasa Pembuatan Aplikasi… Jakarta”) to target random cities. This unnatural approach cannibalized core service pages and looked highly unprofessional to enterprise prospects.
• Unconventional routing: Internal links were buried in massive 5-8 paragraph text blocks. The URL structure lacked hierarchy, mixing formats like /services/mobile and /erp.
• Outdated SEO tactics: The previous setup relied on a massive Google Disavow file blocking harmless, auto-generated scraper sites, which artificially suppressed natural link signals.
• Scattered search intent: The blog captured impressions for highly generic terms (like “visual studio code”). This resulted in high traffic volume but zero qualified buyers.
• Sales funnel friction: The mobile site suffered from layout overflow bugs. The portfolio was restricted to basic image galleries without context, leading to misaligned budget expectations during sales calls.

Our approach

• The high-risk SEO pivot: We executed a surgical pruning of over 200 off-topic blog posts. We mapped strict 301 redirects to preserve valuable link equity and issued 410 Gone tags to burn away the redundant bloat. (The client understands this deep reset requires a standard 3-6 month algorithmic recovery window).
• Disavow cleanup: We deleted the previous disavow file that was mistakenly blocking a lot of natural, helpful backlinks. By correcting this damaging past SEO attempt and restricting the list to just three genuinely toxic URLs, we removed an artificial ceiling on the site’s domain authority.
• MoFu repurposing: We replaced the chaotic homepage routing with clean breadcrumbs. Rather than writing new content, we used the 20-30 surviving, high-quality articles to build a natural internal linking web directly to the service pages.
• Responsive UI & portfolios: We overhauled the front-end to eliminate overflow bugs, adding mature animations and dedicated UI components for their tech stack (Kotlin, Flutter). We also transformed 90+ basic image galleries into bilingual, use-case-driven case studies.

Results

• Immediate funnel improvement: While full SEO indexing is in its 3-6 month maturation phase, the client is already reporting significantly smoother sales calls with pre-qualified leads.
• Resolved cannibalization: The core service pages now have clear, unobstructed semantic paths for search engines to crawl without competing against the homepage.
• Clean bilingual deployment: 180+ localized, high-value portfolio pages have been successfully deployed in both English and Bahasa Indonesia.
• Flawless cross-device experience: The new responsive layout provides a premium browsing experience that visually reflects the client’s high-end development standards.

Client testimonial

Fauzi Ahmad – codelabs.co.id

The design is very professional, with lots of input on both website content and SEO for the CodeLabs Indonesia website. The website has only been launched a few weeks ago, and the impact has been significant. There have already been approximately six inquiries, both domestically and internationally.