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The work, and who it is for in Bristol

Bristol is the clearest place on this site to say something that cuts against selling you a website: if your goal is to be found locally, the city-wide design term is not your market anyway. Your customers are not searching “web design bristol” — that is people looking for a supplier like me. Your market is the service-plus-place long tail and the map pack, and both are reachable without touching a difficulty-76 term.

The city’s base is aerospace and defence at Filton, a very large technology and creative sector, financial services, two universities, and a harbourside hospitality and independent retail economy. The nearest comparable work at scale is Beds.ie: 17,789 products restructured into a crawlable hierarchy, organic clicks from 672 to 7,781 a month and distinct ranking queries from 5,189 to 24,054 between April and August 2026, all Search Console, full calendar months. It started from a low base, which flatters the percentage; what transfers is the method rather than the multiple.

Worth saying plainly rather than hoping you do not ask: I am in Manchester, not Bristol. There is no local office and this page does not pretend there is one. Two builds in Northern Ireland and one in the Republic of Ireland have run entirely remotely without difficulty, and what you should insist on from any remote supplier is the same list I would insist on — the domain registered in your name, the hosting in your own account, a full working copy of the site if you ever leave, and no exit fee. All four are standard here and they are written down on the pricing page.

And before any website work at all: the Google Business Profile. It is free, it takes an afternoon, and for a local business it decides the map pack that sits above every result a website can win. That is an awkward thing to put on a web designer’s page and it is still the right first move.

What you get, and what it costs

The same three numbers as everybody else, published rather than quoted on request: from £500 for the build, from £50 a month for hosting and care, and growth blocks from £250 a month if and when the site should start earning more. No setup fee, no management fee, no percentage of ad spend, and no minimum term on anything.

• A bespoke build rather than a page-builder assembly, so the site is fast on a phone rather than fast on your laptop.
• A page for each service and each area you actually sell in, so every search has somewhere of its own to land instead of competing with the homepage.
• Editable by you, with a walkthrough at handover.
• The domain in your name and the hosting in your account, with a full working copy if you ever leave.
• Titles, structure and metadata written around the searches your customers actually run — not around a keyword dump.