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The work, and who it is for in Southampton

Southampton’s economy is the port above everything — one of the largest container and cruise ports in Europe — plus marine and maritime services, two universities, a substantial health and research sector, financial services, and the retail and hospitality serving a city of 250,000. The maritime supply chain end is B2B and international, where the site is a credibility document; the retail and service end is local and phone-first, where the map pack does the work.

The nearest comparable work at scale is Beds.ie: more than 17,000 products restructured into a crawlable hierarchy, with automated data enrichment and a Merchant Centre sync that reports rejections instead of dropping them silently. Organic clicks went from 672 to 7,781 a month between April and August 2026, Search Console, full calendar months, from a low base. The method transfers; the multiple does not.

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