BodyBack

Fitness that comes to you.

A complete redesign and rebuild, made to be found by Google and AI.

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BodyBack site on a laptop and phone
What
At-home personal training · Complete redesign & rebuild
Role
Redesign, Astro rebuild, migration, tracking and search architecture
When
2026 · Live
Live
bodyback.co.za ↗
  • Redesign
  • Webflow → Astro rebuild
  • 180 blog posts migrated
  • Structured data
  • GTM, GA4 & Ads tracking
  • Area-page system

The brief

BodyBack sends certified trainers to people’s homes, offices and gardens in more than 15 cities. Its old site was slow, and it was costing money: Google Ads marked the landing page experience below average, and “yoga near me” sat at a Quality Score of 1 out of 10.

There was a bigger shift too. More people now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity for a trainer instead of searching, and those answers cite only a few pages. The rebuild had to be one of them.

How we did it.

4 steps, from brief to launch.

  1. 01

    Redesign, then rebuild

    Same brand, a much better site.

    A refreshed charcoal-and-gold design, rebuilt one-for-one in Astro on Netlify, every page fully rendered HTML from the CDN.

  2. 02

    Move everything safely

    No traffic left behind.

    All service pages and 180 blog posts migrated, a full 301 redirect map, sitemaps, and every form wired and tested end to end.

  3. 03

    Built to be read by machines

    Search and AI visibility.

    Structured data on every page type, prices and coverage as real text, and content inside accordions present in the HTML for AI crawlers that don’t run JavaScript.

  4. 04

    Pages for every suburb

    A programmatic area system, next.

    Suburb and service pages that generate from a Google Sheet and rebuild when it’s edited, starting with Johannesburg.

See it in motion.

Recorded from the site itself.

The result

A faster site, built to be found.

180Blog posts migrated
15+Cities covered
Livebodyback.co.za
  • Every page arrives fully rendered, readable by Google and AI crawlers alike.
  • Tracking kept intact through the move: GTM, GA4, Meta Pixel and Ads conversions.
  • A foundation for suburb-level pages, generated from data instead of built by hand.