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The work, and who it is for in Edinburgh

Edinburgh’s economy is financial services at a scale second only to London in the UK, government and the public sector, four universities and a very large student population, tourism and festivals, and a technology cluster that has grown substantially. A notable share of the local business base sells nationally or internationally, which means for many Edinburgh firms the city-name search is a supplier search rather than a customer one — worth winning, not the main event.

I should say plainly that I am in Manchester and there is no Scottish office. The nearest comparable work is CFC Wedding Lists, a family furniture retailer in Cookstown trading since 1972 — a remote build where the gift-list platform had to be written rather than configured, because two audiences who never meet were using the same data for opposite reasons. First content in 0.78 seconds with zero layout shift on an image-heavy page. What protects you with any remote supplier is contractual: the domain in your name, the hosting in your account, a working copy if you leave, no exit fee.

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.