Local search snapshot
What your customers type, which competitors show up now, and which services deserve a page first.
SMBsmall business websites
Web development for small businesses that locals can find.
Our web development for small businesses brings big-agency engineering to a modest site: a page for every service people search for, local SEO wired in from day one, calls and forms you can track, and every login registered in your name.
- live in 7 days
- transparent pricing from £50
- local SEO built in
- you own everything
- a local business site: hero, map, reviews and enquiry form
- LocalBusiness schema and details that match your Google Business Profile
- click-to-call and form submissions tracked as conversions
mobile-first layoutGBP linkedcalls → tracked
definition
What is small business website development?
Small business website development is planning, designing and building a site that turns local searches into calls, bookings and enquiries. Beyond looking professional, a good small business site gives each core service its own page, uses the same name, address and phone number as your Google Business Profile, loads fast on a phone, and makes it obvious how to get in touch. You should be able to edit it yourself, and you should own every part of it.
- Best for
- Trades, clinics, studios, professional services and local retailers
- Built on
- A lightweight WordPress theme, or Shopify for small retail
- Works with
- Your Google Business Profile, reviews, bookings and phone
- You own
- The domain, hosting, CMS, analytics and every account
- Timeline
- A homepage mockup within 48 hours; a standard site goes live in 7 days
- Pricing
- Transparent pricing from £50, with an exact quote after a free 20-minute call
sound familiar?
Signs your website is costing you customers.
Tap what applies. We'll bring it to the first call so you don't have to explain it twice.
Tap anything that sounds familiar.
Bring these to a free scoping call →site plan
Shaped by what your customers search.
One vague "Services" page can't rank for five different jobs. We give each core service its own page, and add area pages only where you have real work, reviews and detail to show. Thin copy-and-paste town pages look like doorway pages to Google, so we don't build them.
// example: a local plumbing company
/Home
services · one page each
/boiler-repair/
/bathroom-installation/
/emergency-plumbing/
areas · only where it's real
/areas/riverside/local jobs + reviews
/areas/town-2 … town-40/skipped: no unique substance
trust & action
/reviews/
/contact/
what's included
Small business website development, done properly.
Built for the way local customers actually choose: on a phone, comparing two or three options, ready to call.
Mobile-first design
Brand-consistent templates designed around calls, bookings and quote requests, with the phone number never more than a thumb away.
Easy-to-edit build
A lightweight WordPress theme (or Shopify for retail) with guardrails, so updating hours or adding a service doesn't break anything.
Local SEO set-up
LocalBusiness schema, name-address-phone that matches your Google Business Profile, a map embed and a review flow.
Service-page copy
Copy for each service written for customers first and search second: what you do, where, how to book.
Tracking & handover
GA4, Search Console and call and form events set up, plus a short training session and every login in your name.
no lock-in
Six keys. All of them yours.
A surprising number of small businesses don't control their own website. Every account we set up is registered to you from day one.
- Domainregistered to your business
- Hostingbilled to your account
- Website adminowner-level login
- Google Analytics 4your property
- Search Consoleyou as owner
- Business Profileyou as primary owner
from our work
Local businesses we've built for.
Published results from Founcy Solutions projects across London.
4–6 enquiries a week from Google Maps
London Roof & Gutter. A 5-page site built in 8 days, plus 3 months of local SEO. Those enquiries were coming in within 6 weeks.
Calls a week up 4× in 90 days
City Plumbing Services. A 10-page site with an emergency call-out form, so urgent jobs reach the phone first.
Load time cut from 7s to 1.4s
Sana's Beauty Studio. A redesign built for speed on mobile. Quote enquiries tripled in the first month.
built to rank
A website that looks fine vs one that gets found.
The difference is rarely the design. It's what's underneath.
local visibility: brand searches only
ServicesOne page listing everythingA page per core service, each with a real search target
Business detailsPhone and address that differ from GoogleName, address and phone that match your Google Business Profile exactly
SchemaNoneLocalBusiness and Service markup that matches what's on the page
Leads"I think the website brings in some calls"Calls and form submissions tracked as GA4 conversions
SpeedHeavy builder scripts on every pageLightweight theme, optimised images and a CDN
AI answersAssistants guess what you do and whereClear who-we-are, where-we-serve, what-we-do blocks they can quote
how it works
Five steps, none of them confusing.
You run a business. We keep decisions few, clear and well-timed.
- 01
Free 20-minute discovery call
Your goals, services, service area and the competitors you keep losing jobs to.
→ page priorities - 02
Plan & design
A sitemap and a homepage mockup within 48 hours, so you can react before anything is built.
→ approved design - 03
Build & write
Pages, copy, local SEO set-up and tracking, on a preview link you can share.
→ preview site - 04
Launch
A standard site goes live in 7 days: device testing, redirects from any old site, and submission to Google Search Console.
→ live site, all logins handed over - 05
Grow
New service or FAQ pages as search data comes in, plus optional local SEO and maintenance.
→ growth plan
stack
Proven tools, nothing exotic.
// website
WordPressLightweight block themeShopifyManaged hosting + CDN
// local
Google Business ProfileLocalBusiness schemaMap embedReview requests
// leads
GA4Search ConsoleGoogle Tag ManagerCall trackingCalendlySquare
what drives the cost
How much does a small business website cost?
Four choices decide most of it. Hosting, domain and maintenance are smaller ongoing costs to budget for alongside.
keep exploring
Related services.
LOC
Local SEO services
Map pack, reviews and citations after the site is live.
Explore → 1PGOne-page website
One offer and one area? A single page may be all you need.
Explore → WPWordPress websites
Custom block themes your team can edit safely.
Explore → HSTManaged hosting
Fast, secure hosting and maintenance, handled for you.
Explore →faq
Small business website questions.
Your profile helps you appear in the map results. A website gives you pages that can rank for each service, lets you control your message and captures leads properly. They work best together: the profile links to the site, and the site's details match the profile.
Pricing is transparent and starts from £50. What moves it is the number of pages, custom versus adapted design, copywriting, and features such as booking or payments; hosting, the domain and maintenance are ongoing costs. Use the scope builder above, then we'll confirm a fixed quote within 24 hours.
A standard small business site goes live in 7 days, with a homepage mockup within 48 hours. Bigger sites depend on how many pages you need and how quickly content and feedback come back, so having your service details, photos and reviews ready speeds things up.
Builders are a fine way to get online quickly. A custom build pays off when you need to rank for several services or areas, want control over speed and markup, or need to know exactly which leads the site produces.
Yes. The domain, hosting, website admin, analytics, Search Console and Google Business Profile are all registered to you. If you ever move on, you take everything with you.
Local SEO foundations are part of every build. Ongoing local SEO, such as review growth, citations and new content, is optional, and you can add it whenever you're ready.
get found locally
Let's build a website your customers can find.
Send your current site, or just your business name. We'll look at how locals search for what you do and come back with a page plan and a quote.
quote within 24 hours · plain-English plan · every login in your name