A website for your Skipton business, built by somebody down the road.
We work from Skipton, and most of the businesses we look after are within half an hour of it. Shops off the High Street, trades covering Craven out of a van, firms up Wharfedale and Airedale.
We come to you rather than the other way round, so the first conversation happens at your place and costs you nothing.
- Websites from £1,295, with every price published
- Quick on a phone, which is where your customers already are
- One local number, answered by the person who built the site
Skipton trade does not arrive from one direction.
Some of it walks in off the High Street. Some drove over from Ilkley or Keighley for the day. Some of it is a farmer at Gargrave looking you up on a phone with one bar of signal, stood in a yard.
A website has to work for all three, and most of the time it has to work on a small screen and a poor connection. We build for that first and worry about the clever bits afterwards.
For a local business, the map is the prize.
Stand on Sheep Street, search for what you sell, and look at what sits above the ordinary results. A map, with three businesses in it. Those three get the calls and the rest of the page gets a scroll.
Your Google listing comes first
A filled-in Google Business Profile with real reviews does more for a Skipton business than almost anything on the website. It costs nothing, and most firms round here leave it half done.
The website has to agree with it
Google cross-checks the two. If your listing says one thing about who you are, where you work and how to reach you, and the website says another, you have made yourself harder to trust and harder to rank.
Then speed settles it
Somebody looking for a tradesman on a phone gives a slow site about two seconds before going back to the results. That is a customer the firm below you gets for nothing.
What we do for businesses in and around Skipton
The same work whether you are on the High Street or up a lane past Gargrave. Prices are published, so you can check before you ring.
Websites
Built round what your customers came to do, from £1,295. No page builder left half configured, and nothing you cannot change yourself later if you want to.
Local search
Your Google listing sorted out properly, the local searches worth going after, and reviews chased up. Usually the fastest win available to a business here.
Google Ads
Worth it when you need the phone ringing this month rather than next spring, or when the search you want is too competitive to win on merit yet.
Care and hosting
£49 a month for hosting, updates, backups and security. Your own dedicated server, or a global edge network for static sites. Never shared hosting.
Moving an existing site
If the site is sound and the hosting is the problem, we move it across for nothing, and nobody finds it offline while we do it.
Somebody to ring
01756 533453 reaches the person who works on your site. No ticket queue, and no account manager relaying messages to a developer you never speak to.
Questions from Skipton businesses
The ones we get asked most before somebody books a review.
No. We work from Skipton but we do not keep a shop front, so there is nowhere useful for you to turn up to. We come out to you instead, anywhere in the patch below, and that first visit is free whether or not you go ahead.
Skipton, Gargrave, Silsden, Keighley, Ilkley, Settle, Harrogate and Bradford. That is the same list as on our Google listing. We take work from further out too, we are upfront that the visit takes more arranging.
From £1,295 to build and £49 a month to look after. Both numbers are on the prices page along with what moves them, so you can work out roughly where you land before you speak to anybody.
Often, and it tends to be cheaper than starting again. The free review tells you which of the two you need, and we say so even when the answer is that your site is fine and you should keep it.
Three to five weeks for most small business sites. The slow part is nearly always waiting on words and photographs from you rather than anything at our end.
Usually one of three things: the Google listing is unverified or half filled in, the website never says plainly where you work, or the two disagree with each other. All three are fixable, and the review tells you which one is yours.
Find out where you stand in Skipton today.
The free review shows you where you come up for local searches, how your Google listing looks next to the firm down the road, and whether the website is helping or getting in the way.
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