Log inLet's talk
Client build · Live

Ark Counseling

An outpatient drug and alcohol counseling practice in Minneapolis ... faith informed, clinically grounded, and now running on a hand-built static site that loads instantly and kept every bit of its search equity through the move.

Live July 2026Client buildWordPress to static
arkcounseling.org
Ark Counseling homepage: drug and alcohol addiction counseling in Minneapolis
What it is

A practice site that works as hard as the practice

Ark Counseling serves individuals and families across Minneapolis and the surrounding areas: licensed LADC counselors, outpatient addiction care for adults and adolescents, and telehealth across Minnesota. The site's job is simple and serious ... be found, be clear, and make the first step feel safe.

The old site ran on WordPress. The new one is hand-built static: no plugins, no database, no page-builder bloat ... just fast pages on a global edge network.

12 legacy 301s
0 plugins or database
100% hand-built static
The migration

Every legacy URL kept its value

A relaunch only counts if the old links keep working. They do.

arkcounseling.org/?page_id=29  →  /drug-alcohol-rehab-counseling/
arkcounseling.org/?page_id=94  →  /about/
arkcounseling.org  →  www.arkcounseling.org

Twelve WordPress-era URLs 301 to their clean equivalents, edge middleware strips stray query strings so every historical link lands on one canonical page, and the bare hostname consolidates to www. Nothing a decade of links earned was left behind.

Why this project

The studio playbook, applied to a client

This is the same system our own properties run on: static pages engineered for search, deployed to a global edge network, with the redirect map tested before DNS ever moved. It is why we build without WordPress ... and why a small practice site can outrun heavier competitors in its market.

For a counseling practice, speed and clarity are not vanity metrics. Someone looking for help at 2 a.m. gets a page that loads instantly, reads honestly, and points to a phone number that works.

Ark Counseling services: addiction counseling built for the Minneapolis community
arkcounseling.org

Have a site that deserves better than its platform?

We migrate it clean: every URL mapped, every ranking kept.

Start the conversation