The Big G
Off WordPress in four weeks, onto a site that gets twice the Google clicks a day.

Who they are

An event company with its own crews

The Big G Sdn Bhd runs corporate events, product launches, gala dinners and exhibitions in Kota Kinabalu, with its own sound, light and visual, design and fabrication teams. It is part of PHG International Group.

What was broken

A WordPress site that had become a maintenance risk

The Big G’s old website ran on WordPress. By early 2026 it had become a maintenance risk: the kind of site that needs constant patching to stay safe.

An event company’s website has one job. When a company in Sabah searches for someone to run its annual dinner or product launch, it has to be found, show its work, and make sending a brief straightforward. In March 2026 the decision was to rebuild rather than keep patching.

What we did

A new site, and the enquiries in the client’s own hands

1. 1

   Rebuilt on the Static Stack in under four weeks

   Decision taken on 20 March; a new 18-page site live on thebigg.com.my on 16 April 2026. No plugins to keep patched. Hosted on Cloudflare.

2. 2

   Dark theme, the client’s own photos

   Almost every image is from a real Big G event. A portfolio of 30 jobs with filters by event type, and a wall of 34 client brands across ten pages.

3. 3

   Pages for the searches that matter

   Four service pages, three event-type pages, a Kota Kinabalu page and a guide to corporate event venues in the city that now shows up in Google on its own.

4. 4

   Enquiries land in the client’s own inbox

   The contact form now runs on The Big G’s own account, so every brief goes straight to them, with WhatsApp beside it.

5. 5

   Ready for Google and for AI assistants

   Structured information on every page, a sitemap sent to Google five days after launch, Google Analytics, and a file that lets AI assistants such as ChatGPT read the site.

6. 6

   Reported back after launch

   A before-and-after search report two months in, so the client could see how search had moved.

What changed

Found more often, and clicked more often

• Google clicks per day more than doubled: 1.7 a day in the old site’s last 60 days (15 Feb – 15 Apr 2026) against 3.9 a day in the new site’s first 170 days (16 Apr – 2 Oct 2026), and 4.2 a day over the last 90.
• The new site’s first 62 days against the old site’s last 60 days of data: clicks 101 → 225, appearances in search 2,995 → 4,423, click-through 3.4% → 5.1%.
• Most of the extra clicks came from people searching for The Big G by name. Clicks from other searches rose from 8 to 36 — the part the next round of search work is for.
• Top three on average on Google for “event management kota kinabalu” (2.6) and “event company kota kinabalu” (2.1), 5 Jul – 2 Oct 2026.
• September 2026 was the site’s best month yet: 145 clicks, against 64 in March 2026, the last full month of the old site.
• 96% of clicks came from Malaysia.

Figures: Google Search Console for thebigg.com.my, pulled 5 Oct 2026. Search Console data for this site starts on 15 February 2026, so the ‘before’ is the old site’s last 60 days only. Enquiries go to the client’s own inbox and are not counted here.