04 · Web design services · seo-consultant.co

Web design services & custom website development
from £700 / $800.

Hand-coded business website design, responsive web design, and ecommerce web development on one timeline, one team. Starter 5-page from £700 UK, $800 USA, CAD $1,000 Canada, AUD $1,200 Australia, USD $800 Gulf. Custom Business 10-page from £1,500. Core Web Vitals green on launch. Bilingual English and Arabic across the Gulf.

95+
Mobile PageSpeed score
1.3s
Typical LCP, field data
4.9/5
Avg rating · 87 reviews

Web design services and custom website development
across five markets, priced to each one.

UK-led website development agency serving founders and operators from London to Dubai. Per-region pricing, per-region compliance, per-region timezone overlap.

We are a London-led hand-coded website development agency with active business website design and custom website development clients in London, Manchester, Birmingham, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Vancouver, Dubai, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Sydney, and Melbourne. We are not an agency in the traditional sense, we are a small specialist team that treats every build as a technical SEOengagement first and a web design engagement second. That framing matters because most web studios ship beautiful sites that rank badly, and most SEO agencies ship functional sites that look like they were built in 2014. Our entire positioning sits in the gap between those two failure modes.

Web design services pricing is calibrated regionally rather than converted mechanically from a single GBP list price. The entry tier starts at £1,500 in the UK, $1,900 in the USA, CAD $2,500 in Canada, AUD $2,900 in Australia, and USD $800 across the Gulf(UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman). Those prices reflect local market conditions, local currency risk, and the labour cost of the compliance and language work that each region actually requires. A UK business website design does not need Arabic typography. A Gulf entry site does not need PIPEDA review. A US custom website development engagement needs CCPA and state-by-state consent logic a UK site does not. We quote to the market, not to a spreadsheet conversion.

Compliance is built in rather than bolted on. UK and EU clients get GDPR-aware cookie consent and ICO-compatible analytics configuration. US clients get CCPA and CPRA consent logic with GA4 consent mode for California traffic. Canadian clients get PIPEDA handling and, where relevant, Quebec French-language considerations under Bill 96. Australian clients get Privacy Act 1988 consent and Australian Privacy Principles (APP) alignment. Gulf clients get Saudi PDPL (Personal Data Protection Law) and UAE DPL (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021) compliance, plus RTL rendering for Arabic content.

Turnaround varies by region because the scope varies. UK entry-tier builds run 7–14 days. US builds run 9–14 days because CCPA state logic adds a pass. Canadian builds run 10–14 days; AU builds 10–14 days; Gulf bilingual builds 10–16 days because the Arabic QA pass is genuinely slow and we will not compress it. Full builds across every region run 4–8 weeks regardless of market. Remote delivery works on a time-zone overlap model: we hold kick-offs and sign-off calls within a window that fits the client's working day (mornings in New York, afternoons in Dubai, late afternoons in Sydney), and all async work happens in Loom, Notion, and Figma so nobody loses a day waiting for a time-zone handover.

What a small business website design at £700 and £1,500 actually buys.

Honest about what fits in the Starter and Custom Business tiers, and what pushes the engagement into the Full Build or Enterprise bracket.

The £700 Starter tier is a five-page hand-coded responsive web design. Typically that is home, about, services (or a single service-detail page), contact, and one supporting page (testimonials, pricing, FAQs, or a case study index). The £1,500 Custom Business tier adds five more pages to make ten in total, plus a properly scoped custom UI / UX system delivered in Figma. Asking for a sixth page beyond Starter, a blog, a team directory, a portfolio filter, or a login area moves the engagement into Custom Business. Full e-commerce, heavy integration, or multi-locale work moves into the £2,800+ Full Build or £4,000+ Enterprise tier. We will tell you this on the first call rather than discovering it halfway through.

What is included at both Starter and Custom Business tiers: semantic HTML5 markup with a proper heading hierarchy; schema markup (Organization, LocalBusiness or Person, Service, BreadcrumbList, FAQPage where applicable); an XML sitemap; robots.txt; canonical tags across every URL; Open Graph and Twitter Card metadata; image alt text applied to every production image; mobile-first responsive layout tested on iPhone, mid-range Android, iPad, and 1440 desktop viewports; Core Web Vitals tuned to green on mobile before we hand over (LCP under 2.0s, INP under 200ms, CLS under 0.1); a contact form wired to SMTP or a provider like Resend or Formspark; GA4 and Search Console installed and verified; a basic consent banner appropriate to the client's region; and one round of revisions within 14 days of launch.

What is not included at these tiers: a custom CMS back-end (you edit HTML or WordPress static content, no Sanity, no Strapi, no headless setup); a blog engine (adding a blog triggers a move to the Full Build because content architecture changes substantially); e-commerce of any kind (Shopify, WooCommerce, Saleor are Enterprise tier); API integrations with CRMs, booking engines, or payment providers beyond a basic Stripe or Calendly embed; custom illustration or animation work; premium stock photography licences; and paid plugin subscriptions. Hosting and domain are also separate, we recommend Vercel or Cloudflare Pages for Next.js builds and a managed WordPress host like Kinsta or Cloudways for WordPress builds, billed directly to the client.

Who this small business website design bracket is for: founders validating a new business idea, local service businesses (builders, plumbers, clinics, consultants, tutors) who need a credible indexable site for local search, professional services launching a new practice, freelancers replacing a portfolio-only Webflow or Squarespace site, and founders in the Gulf who need a bilingual launch site before they commit to a full agency engagement. Who it is not for: anyone who needs more than ten pages, anyone running an ecommerce business, anyone who plans to publish regular blog content, and anyone who needs bespoke integrations. For those clients the £2,800–£3,500 Full Build or £4,000+ Enterprise bespoke web design tier is the right scope and we will say so on the first call.

Professional website development, hand-coded,
not page-builder-assembled.

Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Divi, Elementor, WP Bakery. Why we refuse them for client web development services, even at the entry tier.

Page builders produce slow sites. Not philosophically, measurably. A five-page Wix site typically ships with a 300–500 KB JavaScript bundle for page layout alone, another 150–250 KB for their built-in animation library, render-blocking font loads, and a DOM tree that nests ten to fifteen levels deep for visual components that could be rendered in three. Squarespace is similar. Webflow is better on paper but loads the webflow.js runtime synchronously on every page, which pushes Largest Contentful Paint past the 2.5-second good threshold on mid-range mobile hardware. Divi and Elementor inside WordPress are the worst offenders: WP Bakery can ship 40+ CSS files and 20+ JavaScript files per page before the site code even executes.

The field data backs this up. A typical five-page Wix site scores 50–65 on mobile PageSpeed Insights. A typical Squarespace site scores 55–70. Elementor and Divi sites on budget WordPress hosting frequently score under 50 on mobile. A five-page hand-coded Next.js site on Vercel's edge scores 95–100 on mobile. A hand-coded static WordPress theme on Kinsta scores 90–96. The delta is not marginal, it is the difference between passing Core Web Vitals and failing them, which is the difference between being eligible for the Page Experience ranking bonus and not. Google has published this behaviour explicitly since the 2021 rollout.

There is also a JavaScript hydration tax that page builders impose and hand-coded sites avoid. Every interactive component on a Wix or Elementor site carries hydration overhead, the browser has to parse, compile, and execute JavaScript to make the visible HTML interactive. For a static marketing site (which the entry tier is, by definition) this is pure waste. Our hand-coded Next.js builds ship interactive components only where they are actually needed (nav toggle, form, occasionally a tab control), and the rest of the page is pre-rendered static HTML. The total JavaScript payload on a typical entry-tier site is under 80 KB compressed, against 500+ KB on any page builder.

The ranking impact over six months is the genuine argument. Page Experience is one Google ranking factor among many, but pages that fail Core Web Vitals consistently lose ranking ground to pages that pass, holding everything else equal. We have audited dozens of page-builder sites that ranked on page 1 when first launched and dropped to page 3–5 over eighteen months, not because of penalties but because their Page Experience scores degraded as Google's thresholds tightened. A hand-coded site stays green because the foundation is built for it.

Regional SEO and compliance baked into every build.

Every region has its own compliance, language, and ranking signals. Our custom website development engagements configure them on day one rather than bolt them on afterwards. For deeper work see our technical SEO and SEO audit services.

United Kingdom

  • hreflang en-GB configured on every indexable URL
  • GDPR-compliant cookie consent with granular category opt-ins
  • ICO-aware analytics, GA4 configured for consent-mode v2
  • Registered address in schema (LocalBusiness) for local ranking signals
  • PECR-compliant email marketing consent if a newsletter is included
  • .co.uk versus .com decision documented in the kick-off brief

United States

  • CCPA and CPRA consent logic for California traffic
  • State-by-state cookie handling (Virginia VCDPA, Colorado CPA, Connecticut CTDPA)
  • GA4 consent mode tuned for US privacy frameworks
  • FTC endorsement disclosures applied to any testimonial or affiliate content
  • ADA / WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility patterns across every template
  • hreflang en-US set explicitly to avoid en-GB leakage

Canada

  • PIPEDA-aware consent (Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act)
  • Quebec French-language considerations under Bill 96 where bilingual
  • .ca domain preference for Canadian search ranking
  • hreflang en-CA and fr-CA where a French version exists
  • CASL compliance for any email capture
  • Canadian-hosted CDN nodes (Cloudflare Toronto / Montreal)

Australia

  • Privacy Act 1988 compliance with Australian Privacy Principles
  • AU-hosted CDN nodes (Cloudflare Sydney / Melbourne)
  • .com.au domain strategy versus .com for AU-targeting
  • hreflang en-AU configured to beat US and UK leakage
  • Notifiable Data Breaches scheme awareness for contact form handling
  • ACCC-aligned claims language for any comparison or testimonial content

Gulf (UAE, Saudi, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman)

  • RTL rendering prepared for Arabic content with proper CSS logical properties
  • hreflang ar-SA, ar-AE, ar-QA plus en variants where bilingual
  • Saudi PDPL (Personal Data Protection Law) compliance
  • UAE DPL (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021) consent logic
  • Bilingual English / Arabic content options with proper typography
  • .ae / .sa / .qa / .com.kw / .com.bh / .om domain strategy guidance
  • Cultural design considerations (imagery, colour palette, iconography)

Cross-region defaults

  • Semantic HTML5 with proper landmark roles
  • JSON-LD schema tuned to Google's 2024 structured data guidelines
  • OpenGraph and Twitter Card metadata
  • XML sitemap generated automatically from file routing
  • robots.txt with environment-aware rules (dev, staging, production)
  • Web-font loading strategy chosen per region (Google Fonts, Fontshare, self-hosted)

Ranking in multi-lingual and multi-region markets.

The technical decisions that separate a site that ranks in one market from a site that ranks in five.

Hreflang is the single most misconfigured technical SEO feature on multi-region sites. Done properly, hreflang tells Google which language and regional variant of a page to serve to which user. Done badly, which is most implementations, it creates circular references, mismatched x-default values, and canonical conflicts that cause Google to pick the wrong regional variant or to drop variants from the index entirely. We implement hreflang using self-referencing bidirectional pairs, validated with the Merkle hreflang tool after every deploy, and we include an explicit x-default fallback for out-of-region traffic.

The sub-folder versus sub-domain versus ccTLD question comes up on every multi-region kick-off and there is no universal answer. ccTLDs (.co.uk, .ca, .com.au, .ae) send the strongest geographic signal to Google and build domain authority independently in each market, the cost is that you build authority five times instead of once. Sub-folders (example.com/uk/, /us/, /ae/) share a single domain authority and are faster to rank, at the cost of a weaker geographic signal and a harder-to-operate URL structure. Sub-domains (uk.example .com, ae.example.com) sit awkwardly between the two and rarely make sense. For most founder-scale clients we recommend sub-folders with strong hreflang and regional Search Console properties. For enterprise clients serving large regional markets, ccTLDs are often worth the authority investment.

Language-specific schema matters for Gulf bilingual builds in particular. The Organization, LocalBusiness, and Service blocks should exist in both English and Arabic versions with the inLanguage property set explicitly, and FAQPage schema should match the language of the page it appears on. Getting this wrong causes Arabic pages to show English FAQ rich results in SERPs, which reads as a broken site even when ranking is otherwise fine.

Regional Search Console properties are non-negotiable for multi-region sites. We register a property per region (UK, US, CA, AU, and each Gulf country), submit a region-specific sitemap where possible, and tune the International Targeting settings to match the ccTLD or sub-folder configuration. This gives Google explicit guidance about which region each URL is written for and provides per-region coverage and rankings data that would otherwise be invisible in a single Search Console property. We also configure Google Business Profile per physical or service-area location where the client has one, and provide a local citation strategy for the regions that care about directory signals (UK Yell, US BBB, Australia TrueLocal, Gulf Dubizzle and local chambers).

Business website design case studies across five markets.

Four real custom website development engagements at the entry tier, anonymised to the sector, across four of the five regions we serve. See more named engagements inside our UK, USA, Canada, and Gulf country hubs.

UK · £1,500

London consultancy, 11-day launch

A solo management consultant in London, formerly on a Wix site that ranked nowhere and loaded in 4.2 seconds on mobile, commissioned a five-page hand-coded replacement at the £1,500 Custom Business tier. Scope: home, about, services, insights (a single case-study index page), and contact. We delivered in 11 working days on Next.js with the site hosted on Vercel's London edge. Mobile PageSpeed 98 on launch. Schema, sitemap, Open Graph, GA4 consent mode and Search Console all configured pre-launch. Within eight weeks the site ranked on page 2 for the target local commercial query, and within four months it ranked in the top three for the primary long-tail consultancy term that had driven the original brief.

USA · $800

Chicago solo medical practitioner, 9-day launch

A US-based independent medical practitioner launching a new private consulting practice in Chicago, migrating off a Squarespace site that was technically fine but ranked for nothing commercial. Five hand-coded pages delivered at $800 in 9 working days. We handled CCPA consent, GA4 consent mode for Illinois and California traffic, FTC-compliant testimonial disclosure blocks, and LocalBusiness schema tuned to the practice's service radius. Outcome reported at the 90-day mark: 14 private consults booked directly from organic search, with the primary commercial query ranking on page 1 for the practice area within Illinois state.

Gulf · USD $800

Dubai property consultant, bilingual launch

Ahmed Al-Mansoori, an independent property consultant operating out of Business Bay in Dubai, commissioned a bilingual English and Arabic five-page consultancy site at USD $800. We delivered in 14 working days , the Arabic QA pass added roughly three days against a comparable English-only build. Scope: home, about (bilingual), emirate-specific service pages for Business Bay, Downtown, and Palm Jumeirah, and a contact page with WhatsApp integration. Hreflang ar-AE and en-AE bidirectional, UAE DPL-aligned consent banner, RTL rendering handled with CSS logical properties rather than a retrofit template. Within two months Ahmed's site ranked on page 1 of Google UAE for a Business Bay-specific long-tail property query.

Canada · CAD $1,000

Toronto SaaS founder, 12-day launch

A Toronto-based bootstrapped SaaS founder pre-launch, needing a five-page marketing site (home, features, pricing, about, contact) to accompany a product launch. Delivered at CAD $1,000 in 12 working days on a hand-coded Next.js build hosted on Vercel. PIPEDA-aware consent, GA4 with Canadian residency configured, hreflang en-CA, and LocalBusiness schema registered to the Toronto address. The site ranked on page 1 for the primary bottom-of-funnel product query within six weeks of launch, unusually fast for a cold domain, attributable to a clean technical foundation and a tight keyword-to-page mapping worked out in the brief phase rather than after launch.

Speed is a ranking signal.
It's also the conversion multiplier.

Core Web Vitals have been confirmed ranking signals since 2021. Every 100 ms of LCP delay costs measurable conversion. We build for both.

LCP
< 2.0s

Largest Contentful Paint, the main content visible, on a 4G connection. Google's “good” threshold. We aim under 1.5s.

INP
< 200ms

Interaction to Next Paint. How snappy your site feels when the user taps or types. We target under 150 ms on mobile.

CLS
< 0.1

Cumulative Layout Shift, zero unexpected jumps as content loads. Fonts, images, and ads all sized up-front. We aim under 0.05.

TTFB
< 400ms

Time to First Byte from the UK edge. Static pages served from CDN edges hit 50–150 ms comfortably. Dynamic pages stay under 400 ms.

These are not aspirational numbers. Every site we ship passes these in real field data (CrUX, the Chrome User Experience Report) within 90 days of launch, on the pages that drive commercial traffic. Lighthouse scores in a lab environment are easy; field data is what Google actually ranks on.

Web design services, custom website development, and SEO,
under one roof.

Most agencies separate web design, web development, and SEO into three contracts with three teams. We deliver them as one engagement, with one timeline, with one point of contact. Same team also runs SEO audits, technical SEO, local SEO, and AI agent builds for web clients.

UI/UX design

Wireframes, mood direction, full desktop and mobile comps in Figma. Design system with tokens, typography, and component library. You own the file.

Hand-coded development

Next.js 14 (App Router, SSR, server components) for custom sites. WordPress when editability matters. Zero page-builders, every component is hand-written for speed and accessibility.

SEO from day one

Schema markup, sitemap, robots, canonicals, Open Graph, metadata, hreflang where needed. Information architecture reviewed for internal linking before the first Figma frame.

Core Web Vitals tuning

Image optimisation, font loading strategy, critical CSS, JavaScript hydration cost budgets, third-party script deferral. Green on Search Console before launch.

Analytics & tracking

GA4 installed with event plan, Search Console verified, Tag Manager where needed, GDPR-aware cookie consent. Clean data from day one.

Launch monitoring

30–60 day post-launch window with weekly checks on Search Console coverage, CrUX field data, ranking stability, and server log activity. Issues caught and fixed before they compound.

Dribbble designer + developer
vs. us.

Same output (a live, designed, coded site), very different cost and timeline.

The usual route

£2,500 – £4,000+
  • Dribbble / top-tier designer: £3,000 – £8,000 for Figma alone
  • Separate developer: £4,000 – £10,000 to interpret the design
  • Timeline: 8–14 weeks (design then hand-off)
  • Hand-off friction, developer re-interprets design
  • SEO usually bolted on afterwards by a third vendor
  • Core Web Vitals: often ignored until launch
  • Nobody owns end-to-end responsibility

With us

£700 – £4,000+
  • Starter (5 pages) from £700 UK / $800 USA
  • Custom Business (10 pages) from £1,500 UK / $1,900 USA
  • Full Build (15+ pages) £2,800 – £3,500
  • Enterprise / E-commerce: from £4,000
  • Design-only scopes from £950 (handoff to your developer)
  • Timeline: 7–14 days Starter, 3–4 weeks Custom Business, 4–8 weeks Full Build
  • Zero hand-off, designers & developers on the same brief
  • SEO monitored from the first wireframe
  • Core Web Vitals green before launch

We're not the cheapest option on the market, Fiverr and Upwork will build you something for £500. We're the cheapest option that produces sites which rank, convert, and survive algorithm updates. That's a different product.

Four tiers, priced by page count and scope.

Starter at 5 pages, Custom Business at 10 pages, Full build for 15 plus pages, Enterprise and e-commerce for heavy integrations. All prices exclude VAT. 50% deposit, 50% on launch.

01 · Starter · 5 pages · 7 to 14 day delivery

Starter

£700

Hand-coded 5-page site for founders validating a new business or single-service local operators.

  • Up to 5 hand-coded pages
  • Core Web Vitals green on launch
  • Schema, sitemap, Open Graph set up
  • Mobile-first responsive design
  • Contact form + analytics wired in
  • 7 to 14 day delivery
UK£700
USA$800
CanadaCAD $1,000
AustraliaAUD $1,200
GulfUSD $800
Start at £700 →
03 · Full Build · 15+ pages · 4 to 8 week delivery

Full Build

£2,800 – £3,500

Full UI/UX system plus hand-coded Next.js or WordPress build for businesses with multiple service lines.

  • 15+ pages with template variants
  • Full Figma design system and tokens
  • Everything in Custom Business
  • Core Web Vitals tuning + speed budget
  • Editor / admin training session
  • 4 to 8 week delivery + 30-day monitoring
UK£2,800 – £3,500
USA$3,500 – $4,500
CanadaCAD $4,700 – $5,900
AustraliaAUD $5,400 – $6,800
GulfUSD $3,500 – $4,500
Start at £2,800 – £3,500 →
04 · Enterprise / E-commerce · Catalogue / multi-locale · 8 to 12 week delivery

Enterprise / E-commerce

from £4,000

Shopify / Saleor headless, multi-language hreflang, CRM / CMS / ERP API integrations.

  • Headless e-commerce (Shopify, Saleor) integration
  • Multi-language + hreflang matrix
  • CRM / CMS / ERP API integrations
  • Advanced schema, product feeds
  • Dedicated product owner and QA lead
  • 8 to 12 week delivery + 60-day monitoring
UKfrom £4,000
USAfrom $5,100
Canadafrom CAD $6,800
Australiafrom AUD $7,800
Gulffrom USD $5,100
Scope a complex build →

Design-only engagement (Figma deliverables, you handle the build) is available from £950. Ask for it on the discovery call.

Real sites.
Real SERPs.

Receipts available on request, happy to show live Search Console on a call.

Featured · Vehicle recovery · London

From obscure to the Map Pack in 11 months.

Built 40+ postcode-level landing pages, cleaned up a messy schema stack, deployed a WhatsApp AI dispatch agent, earned local press across east London recovery services.

search.google.com/search-console
M1M4M8M11
Food retail · E1

Local discovery for a legacy sweet shop

Rebuilt an ageing site, added product & review schema, rewrote category pages in plain English.

#1
primary category + city
Multi-service · AI build

Programmatic SEO + AI dispatch

180-page city-service template that reads human, plus a WhatsApp agent handling 60% of intake.

qualified leads indexed

What founders & operators
actually say about the work.

Four verified reviews from active engagements. Every review ships as schema.org Review markup alongside the visible quote, same claim on screen and in the structured data.

★★★★★
Three years in and still the best SEO money I have ever spent. Map Pack visibility across 40+ London postcodes, zero nonsense in the reporting, and I can text Syed directly when something breaks.
Rashid Kabir
Founder · Recovery services · London
3 yr · ongoing
★★★★★
Organic revenue up 185% in 14 months. Product schema rebuild alone lifted rich-result capture by ~40%. No 12-month lock-in, month-to-month, which meant I could judge the work on results rather than on contract friction.
Maya Chen
E-comm · Food & retail · Manchester
18 mo · ongoing
★★★★★
Moved from an NYC agency that billed $9k/month for junior-delivered work. Two years later, 23 practice-area terms on page one and qualified demos up 180%. Senior time, in USD, month-to-month, what US SaaS SEO should be.
Kwame Okafor
B2B SaaS · New York
2 yr · ongoing
★★★★★
Four-clinic group across Sydney. GBP work, postcode landing pages, review pipeline that actually complies with Google's rules. Patient bookings from organic up 3x in the first year. Remote but genuinely responsive.
Aisha Rahman
Clinic group · Sydney
14 mo · ongoing

One studio.
Seven services done properly.

SEO is the foundation. AI and custom web builds are how I ship outcomes in 2026, all connected, all from the same hand.

SVC.01, flagship
S

Technical & Local SEO

Crawl audits, schema that validates, internal linking, postcode-level landing pages, GBP, Map Pack, the foundation that makes everything compound.

SITE HEALTH · 90dLIVE
IMPRESSIONS
1.2M
POSITION
3.2
📄
🔗
📊
⚙️
+
  • Schema architecture
  • Map Pack visibility
  • Location pages at scale
SVC.02, new for 2026
AI

AI agents for business

Custom WhatsApp and web agents handling enquiries, quoting, booking, and dispatch. N8N, OpenAI, Gemini.

  • WhatsApp dispatch bots
  • Quote & booking agents
  • N8N automation
SVC.03
W

Web builds from scratch

Custom sites on WordPress, Next.js, or hand-written HTML. Fast, SEO-ready, Core Web Vitals green from day one.

  • WordPress · Next.js
  • Vercel · Cloudflare
  • Core Web Vitals
SVC.04
C

Content & authority

Topical maps that close ranking gaps. Editorial briefs your writers can follow. Digital PR that survives core updates.

  • Topical authority
  • Editorial briefs
  • Digital PR outreach
SVC.05
A

Workflow automation

Reporting, lead routing, content pipelines. If a task is repetitive and mechanical, I'll automate it with N8N.

  • N8N pipelines
  • Lead routing
  • Auto-reporting
SVC.06
D

One-off audits

Written SEO diagnostic with a ranked fix list. Two-week turnaround. Often the right starting point.

  • Two-week turnaround
  • Written report
  • Ranked fix list
SVC.07
M

Migration SEO

Replatforms, redesigns, rebrands. I protect rankings through the change, the riskiest work in SEO, done right.

  • URL mapping
  • 301 strategy
  • Post-launch watch

Agency scale-bloat vs.
a senior-led specialist team.

The difference between a pitch deck and the people shipping your work is the difference between “scalable” and delivered.

The agency experience

  • Sold by a senior, delivered by a junior you never meet
  • Reporting dashboards designed to justify the retainer
  • Template audits that barely reference your actual site
  • 12-month contracts with a 90-day notice clause
  • New account manager every six months
  • AI-generated content and bot links that risk penalties
  • Web work outsourced to a third agency you can't reach

Working with our team

  • Syed leads every engagement end-to-end, no junior hand-off
  • Expert developers on the same team for fast, careful builds
  • Manual link earning from a real UK + international network
  • Plain-English monthly notes. What moved. What didn't. Why.
  • Audits written for your site, your CMS, your market
  • Month-to-month. Direct WhatsApp. Leave any time.
  • SEO, AI, web & links under one roof, joined-up thinking
08 · Let’s talk

Ready to start? Book a web design call.

A short introduction, your site URL, and what you’re trying to achieve. If it’s a fit, we’ll book a 30-minute call.

90% of SEO agencies don't write a line of code.
We do, and that's why the rankings actually ship.

Most agency SEO deliverables end at a recommendations document the client's developer never gets around to implementing. We write the schema, ship the SSR refactor, and merge the internal-link rebuild ourselves. The SEO work that needs code ships in the same sprint the audit flagged it.

90%
of SEO agencies rely entirely on the client's dev team to implement technical fixes. The result: audits that sit in a Google Doc for 9 months while rankings stall.
What they ship

A 40-page PDF of “recommendations”

  • Technical SEO audit handed to your developer
  • Content briefs handed to your content writer
  • Schema markup handed to “someone in engineering”
  • Migration plan handed to a third-party agency
OutcomeRankings stall, nobody owns the build.
What we ship

Code that runs, merged on the same sprint

  • Schema written by our engineers, validated against Google's content rules
  • SSR / ISR refactors on Next.js shipped via GitHub PR
  • WordPress theme + plugin work merged to staging by week 2
  • Core Web Vitals fixes deployed, not diagnosed
  • Migrations executed, 301 mapping, DNS, post-launch monitoring
OutcomeRankings move because the fixes actually go live.
Our production stack
Next.js 14SSR / ISR · App Router · RSC
WordPressCustom themes · Gutenberg blocks · ACF
ShopifyLiquid · Hydrogen · Oxygen
TypeScriptStrict mode across all new work
Vercel · CloudflareEdge deploys · CDN image optimisation
Sanity · ContentfulHeadless CMS when it fits
N8N · OpenAI · ClaudeAI agent orchestration
GA4 · GSC · LookerAnalytics & reporting pipeline
SEO + build from one team. Stop handing audit docs to developers who never read them.
See the services →

A four-step engagement.
No fog. No surprises.

Every client gets the same senior operator from first call to monthly review. Continuity is the product.

01

Diagnostic audit

Two weeks. Crawl, keyword gap, backlink profile, on-page health. Written report, ranked fix list.

02

Build & foundation

Schema, technical debt, site build or repair, internal linking. The work that makes everything compound.

03

Content, links & AI

Close topical gaps. Earn links honestly. Deploy AI agents where they save real hours, not just look clever.

04

Review & compound

Monthly call. Plain-English report. What moved, what didn't, what's next. Leave any time.

05 · Philosophy

A small team, a senior lead,
and an honest answer
about what actually moves rankings.

Syed leads the strategy and writes the monthly notes. Behind him is a tight network of expert developers and manual link-earning partners built over six years. Everything ships fast, nothing is outsourced to an AI bot that will earn your domain a penalty in the next core update.

Syed & teamSenior SEO lead · expert developers · manual link network
What does "SEO-monitored UI/UX" actually mean?

Every design decision is reviewed against its ranking impact before it ships, heading hierarchy, page structure, image weight, font loading, critical CSS, JavaScript hydration cost, internal linking patterns, schema opportunities. Most design studios only think about SEO after the Figma file is signed off. We think about it from the first wireframe.

What does the £1,500 Custom Business package include? What's the catch?

There is no catch, but there are boundaries. At £1,500 in the UK (or $1,900 USA, CAD $2,500 Canada, AUD $2,900 Australia, USD $1,900 Gulf) you receive up to ten hand-coded pages, mobile-first responsive layout, schema, sitemap, Open Graph metadata, a contact form wired to analytics, and Core Web Vitals green on launch. You do not receive a custom CMS back-end, a blog engine, an e-commerce cart, or API integrations, those push the engagement into the £2,800+ Full Build tier. The Custom Business tier is designed for founders who need a credible, fast, indexable site in under three weeks without wasting budget on a page builder that will slow them down six months later.

Do you work with Gulf clients in Arabic as well as English?

Yes. Bilingual English and Arabic builds are standard for our Gulf engagements across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman. We handle RTL layout direction, Arabic typography, hreflang tags for ar-SA and ar-AE, and schema in both languages. Content is either supplied by the client in Arabic or translated by a native Arabic copywriter we work with regularly, we never hand an Arabic string through an automated translator for published body copy.

Is the entry tier good for SEO?

For a ten-page hand-coded site, yes, often better than a thirty-page site on a page builder. Every entry-tier build ships with schema markup, a properly structured sitemap, canonical tags, Open Graph metadata, image alt text, semantic HTML, and Core Web Vitals that hit green on mobile before we hand over. The constraint is content volume, not technical quality. If you want to rank for more than the handful of queries a ten-page site can support, you will eventually need a blog or additional service pages, but the technical foundation at £1,500 is identical to the foundation at £4,000.

What if I need a CMS or e-commerce later?

The entry tier is built to be extensible. We hand over a clean codebase (Next.js repo or a lightweight WordPress install) that a future developer can extend into a CMS or commerce build without starting over. When you are ready to add Shopify, Saleor, a WordPress admin for blog publishing, or any API integration, we can scope that as a follow-on. Many clients start at the Custom Business tier (£1,500) to validate demand, then come back for the Full Build or Enterprise tier (£2,800 to £4,000+) 6–12 months later once they know what the site actually needs to do.

How does your $1,900 USA tier compare to Fiverr or Upwork gigs?

The headline price is similar. The output is not. A $800 gig on Fiverr typically produces a Wix or Squarespace template with your logo swapped in, generic stock photography, no schema, no Core Web Vitals tuning, and no ranking strategy. Our $800 tier is a hand-coded site on Next.js or a static WordPress theme, with schema, CWV green on launch, analytics and Search Console wired in, and a post-launch monitoring window. You could buy ten Fiverr gigs for the price of one of ours, and none of them would outrank a properly built site six months in.

Do you offer bilingual English/Arabic sites?

Yes, at both the entry tier (from USD $800 in the Gulf) and the full build tier. Bilingual Gulf builds include full RTL rendering for Arabic pages, hreflang tag pairs linking English and Arabic versions, dual-language schema where appropriate, and a language-switch control tested across mobile, tablet, and desktop. We build for Arabic typography first rather than retrofitting an English template, which is the usual reason bilingual sites feel unbalanced.

What's included in the Gulf tier specifically?

Gulf starter tier at USD $800 includes: up to five hand-coded pages, bilingual English and Arabic content option (client supplies translations or we arrange native copywriting at cost), hreflang ar-SA / ar-AE / en setup, RTL CSS handling, PDPL-aware consent banner for Saudi, UAE DPL compliance for Dubai and Abu Dhabi clients, Gulf-specific schema (LocalBusiness with Gulf address), and guidance on .ae / .sa / .qa domain strategy versus .com routing. Delivery runs 10–16 days because of the bilingual QA pass. Gulf Custom Business tier at USD $1,900 adds up to ten pages.

Why is this cheaper than hiring a Dribbble designer plus a developer separately?

Because we do both under one roof, on one timeline, with no hand-off friction. A senior Dribbble-featured designer typically charges £3,000–£8,000 for a Figma file alone. A separate developer to build it charges another £4,000–£10,000 and takes 4–6 weeks to interpret the design. We deliver the full live site, designed, coded, SEO-ready, speed-tuned, in one engagement, usually for less than the Figma file costs on its own.

Do I get the Figma file and the code?

Yes, both. You own the design file and the full codebase. We hand over the Figma project on project completion and the code repo with full commit history. No vendor lock-in, you can take the whole thing to another developer tomorrow if you want to.

What stack do you build on?

Primarily Next.js 14 for custom sites (server-rendered, App Router, Core Web Vitals green on launch) and WordPress where the client needs non-technical editing. We avoid page-builders (Elementor, Divi, WP Bakery) because they produce slow, bloated DOM trees that tank Core Web Vitals. Every site we ship is hand-coded and passes PageSpeed Insights on mobile at 90+.

How fast is "fast loading" exactly?

Target thresholds: LCP under 2.0 seconds on 4G, INP under 150 ms, CLS under 0.05, TTFB under 400 ms from a UK edge. Typical real-world result for our Next.js builds: LCP around 1.3s, INP around 80ms, Lighthouse Performance 95+ on mobile. Hosted on Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, or the client's preferred edge.

Why does speed matter for SEO?

Core Web Vitals are a confirmed ranking signal since 2021. More practically: a one-second delay in LCP drops conversion rates 5–10%, and Google's ranking algorithm treats pages with poor field-data Core Web Vitals as lower quality even before the direct ranking impact. Speed matters for rankings, for ad efficiency, and for every commercial metric downstream.

Can you redesign an existing site without tanking rankings?

Yes, this is actually the most common engagement. We run a migration protocol: full URL map, 301 strategy, schema preservation, internal link rebuilding, CWV checks against the new templates before launch, post-launch monitoring for 30–60 days. Done properly, a redesign should lift rankings, not harm them.

How long does a typical project take?

Entry tier (five pages) runs 7–14 days. Standard Next.js or WordPress full build runs 4–8 weeks. E-commerce and multi-template projects run 8–12 weeks. Kick-off to Figma sign-off on a full build is usually week 2–3; development and SEO configuration through week 4–6; QA, CWV tuning, and launch by week 6–8.

What's included in the price?

UI/UX design (wireframes, mood direction, full desktop and mobile comps), copywriting support, full front-end and back-end development, SEO configuration (schema, sitemap, robots, canonicals, Open Graph, metadata), Core Web Vitals tuning, analytics installation, and a launch monitoring window. Not included: paid assets (premium photography, stock video, custom illustration), third-party subscriptions (Webflow hosting, premium plugins), and domain / DNS.

Do you do design-only projects?

Yes. If you have a developer already and only need the UI/UX design work, we scope design-only scopes available from £950. You get the Figma file, a design system, and a written implementation brief your developer can ship from. Still SEO-monitored.

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