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The work, and who it is for in Sheffield

What makes that unusual is that Sheffield is not short of agencies — it has a large digital sector of its own. The reading is that the local firms are competing for national and sector work rather than for their own city name, which leaves the city terms genuinely open for anyone prepared to build a page properly and keep it maintained.

The business base is the other half of the picture: advanced manufacturing and metals, two large universities, a substantial health and research sector, and a trades and construction layer serving a city with a lot of Victorian and post-war housing stock. The trades end of that is where most of the website value sits, because it is where most enquiries are urgent, mobile and phone-first. The nearest comparable work is Pro Pave, a paving company competing for high-value domestic work across Greater Manchester — 27 pages so that every service and every area had somewhere of its own to rank rather than everything competing with the homepage, rendering from eleven requests and loading completely in 0.68 seconds.

Worth saying plainly rather than hoping you do not ask: I am in Manchester, not Sheffield. 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.