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Website Development & SEO

Website development and SEO for Metro Vancouver businesses

Your website is often the first thing a customer sees and the last thing anyone maintains. Our developers build sites that load quickly, work on every phone and stay secure, then help you rank for the searches your customers actually make.

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What’s included

What you get with website development and SEO

  • Website design and build

    Brochure sites, service and location pages, booking and quote forms, and online stores, built around what your customers need to do.

  • Speed and Core Web Vitals

    Sites built to load fast on a phone on mobile data, which is what Google measures and what visitors judge you on.

  • Technical SEO

    Clean URLs, titles and descriptions, structured data, sitemaps, internal linking and the crawl issues that quietly hold sites back.

  • Local SEO

    Google Business Profile, service and city pages, consistent business details across directories, and review prompts that bring in local enquiries.

  • Content and on-page work

    Clear page copy written for real questions people search for, not keyword stuffing, plus the headings and structure search engines expect.

  • Website care and hosting

    Updates, backups, uptime monitoring, SSL and security hardening, handled by the same team that looks after your other IT.

  • Analytics and reporting

    Search Console and privacy-friendly analytics set up properly, with plain-English reporting on what's working.

Who this is for

Most small business websites are in one of three states. Some were built years ago and now load slowly, look dated on a phone and can’t be edited without calling someone. Some were built cheaply by a template service and have never been found by anyone through search. And some were built well but never maintained, so they’re running out-of-date software and quietly collecting security warnings.

If any of that sounds familiar, this is what we do. We build and rebuild business websites, then keep them fast, secure and visible.

A website that earns its place

A business website has one job: turn the people who find it into enquiries. Everything we build works back from that.

  • Clear structure. Visitors should understand what you do within a few seconds, and reach the page they need in one click.
  • Obvious next steps. A phone number that dials on mobile, a form that’s short enough to actually complete, and calls to action on every page.
  • Speed. Slow sites lose visitors before they see anything. We build for fast loading on mobile data, not just on office Wi-Fi.
  • Accessibility. Proper contrast, keyboard navigation and screen-reader support, which is both the right thing to do and better for SEO.
  • Ease of updates. You should be able to change your hours, add a service or publish an article without a support ticket.

Built to be found

A beautiful website that nobody finds is an expensive brochure. Search visibility is designed in from the start rather than bolted on afterwards.

Technical SEO covers the foundations: crawlable URLs, one clear topic per page, correct titles and descriptions, structured data so search engines understand what your business is, a clean sitemap, sensible internal links and no accidental duplicate pages. It also covers speed and Core Web Vitals, which Google measures directly.

Local SEO is where most Metro Vancouver businesses win or lose. That means a properly filled out and maintained Google Business Profile, service pages that match what people search for, genuinely useful city pages rather than copies with the name swapped, consistent name, address and phone details across directories, and a steady habit of asking happy clients for reviews.

Content ties it together. Pages that answer the questions your customers actually ask tend to rank, get linked to and convert. We help plan topics from real search data and either write them with you or edit what you write.

What we build

  • Service business websites, the most common: a handful of well-written pages, clear services, strong local signals and an enquiry form that works.
  • Multi-location and service-area sites, where each area needs its own genuinely useful page.
  • Booking and quote flows, connected to the scheduling or CRM tools you already use.
  • Online stores for businesses selling products, including payment, shipping and stock integrations.
  • Rebuilds and rescues, moving off a slow or unmaintainable platform without losing the rankings you already have.

Launches that don’t lose your rankings

Rebuilding a site is where traffic often disappears, usually because old URLs stop working. We plan that part carefully: every existing URL is mapped, redirects are put in place, titles and content are carried over deliberately, and Search Console is monitored after launch so anything that slips is caught in days rather than months.

Looked after, not just launched

An unmaintained website becomes a liability. Software gets out of date, plugins develop vulnerabilities, certificates expire and forms silently stop sending. Our website care includes updates, backups, uptime monitoring, SSL and security hardening, and it works the same way as our managed IT support: a fixed monthly cost and a team who already knows your setup.

Because we also handle your email, domains and DNS and your cybersecurity, there’s no finger-pointing between a web agency and an IT provider when something goes wrong. It’s one team.

Honest expectations

We won’t promise first-page rankings in a month, because nobody can. What we will do is fix the technical foundations, make your site fast and useful, target the searches that actually bring customers, and show you the Search Console data so you can see what’s changing and why.

Talk to us about your site

Whether you need a new website, a rescue for an old one, or SEO help with a site you already like, get in touch. We’ll review what you have and tell you plainly what’s worth doing.

How it works

How website development and SEO works with us

  1. Step 1: Discovery

    We learn what your business sells, who buys it and what those people search for, then agree on what the site has to achieve.

  2. Step 2: Plan and structure

    We map the pages, the keywords each one targets and how visitors move toward contacting you, before any design work starts.

  3. Step 3: Design and build

    You see the design, then we build it to be fast, accessible and easy for you to update, with you reviewing as it comes together.

  4. Step 4: Launch

    We handle hosting, SSL, redirects from old URLs, Search Console and analytics, so rankings carry over and nothing breaks on launch day.

  5. Step 5: Improve

    After launch we watch the search data and keep improving pages, because SEO is a habit rather than a one-time project.

FAQ

Website Development & SEO: common questions

Can't find your question? Call us or send a message and a real person will get back to you.

Do you build websites as well as manage IT?

Yes. We have an experienced development team alongside our IT engineers. That combination is unusual and useful, because the same people who build your site also look after your email, DNS, security and backups, so nothing falls between two suppliers.

How long does a website take to build?

It depends on the number of pages, whether content and photos are ready, and how many rounds of review you want. We give you a timeline and a fixed quote after a short discovery conversation, and the thing that most often causes delay is waiting on content.

Will my website work on mobile?

Yes, every site we build is designed mobile-first. Most local searches happen on a phone, and Google indexes the mobile version of your site, so mobile performance is the priority rather than an afterthought.

How long does SEO take to show results?

Technical fixes and Google Business Profile work can show up in weeks. Ranking for competitive terms usually takes months of consistent work. Be cautious of anyone promising first-page results in 30 days.

Can you improve our existing website instead of rebuilding it?

Often, yes. We start with an audit covering speed, mobile experience, technical SEO and security. Sometimes a set of targeted fixes gets most of the benefit, and sometimes the platform itself is the problem. We tell you honestly which situation you're in.

Do you work with WordPress?

Yes, we support and improve WordPress sites, including speed and security work. For new builds we recommend the approach that fits your needs, and for many small business sites that means a fast static build with far less maintenance and a smaller attack surface.

Do you keep looking after the site after launch?

Yes. Website care covers updates, backups, uptime monitoring, security and small content changes, and it can be bundled with your managed IT plan so it's one relationship and one invoice.

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