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A small business website: small, but working.

A small business website should be like a good employee in a small team: it should do a few things properly. A handful of pages shaped around what customers search for, fast loading, and obvious contact. That is enough to make the phone ring.

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What a small business actually needs from a website

Three things. To be findable on Google, to make instantly clear what you do and where, and to put contact within arm's reach. Everything above that is extras.

Picture a hairdresser with her own salon. Her clients search for "hairdresser" plus the neighbourhood. A site with a services page, a treatment price list, a gallery and contact covers the whole job. A sprawling site with a company mission and a news section will not bring in a single extra client, and it costs as much as three of the small ones.

Small businesses do not lose on Google because their websites are small. They lose because of websites nobody can find, built without regard for real searches. Google makes the same point in its SEO starter guide. Size is the easiest thing to add later.

A small website that does its job

A typical, healthy scope for a small business website:

  • Homepage. Who, what, where, and one contact button.
  • Service pages. One for each service customers search for separately. The most important line on this list.
  • Contact. Phone, form, map, hours.
  • Google Business Profile. The free Maps listing, connected to the site. For a local business it is half the visibility.
  • Optionally a gallery of past work or a short about section, if that is what builds trust in your industry.

A site built like this has everything Google needs and nothing that only inflates the price. How the build itself works, we have covered separately.

When a small business doesn't need a website

There are cases where the honest answer is: not yet.

If all your sales come from referrals and you do not plan to change that, a website will be a business card confirming you exist, not a source of customers. Simple and cheap covers it. If customers find you through Google Maps and all you need online is opening hours, start with a proper Google Business Profile. It costs nothing.

Tell us how you win customers today, and we will say plainly whether a website is an investment for you or a gadget. A free audit also means a free answer of "you don't need us yet".

The website grows with the business

Good news for anyone worried a small site is a dead end: a properly built site extends without demolition.

You start with a few pages. The business grows and a new service arrives, so we add a page. You want to answer customer questions and build Google's trust, so we add content that answers them. You take on international clients, so we add an English version, the way our own site works.

Under the hosting and care plan, small changes take one message, and bigger extensions get quoted as new scope, from specifics, not from the air. Small business life should be light. You do your work, the site does its.

Websites first.
Everything else follows.

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FAQ

Isn't Facebook or Instagram enough instead of a website?

Social profiles are mostly seen by people who already know you. A website shows up for people still searching for a business like yours. A profile also runs on someone else's rules, and reach and policies change without asking. The combination works best: the site attracts searchers, the profile keeps the relationship.

How many pages does a small business need?

Usually a homepage, contact, and a separate page for each service customers search for separately. For many small businesses that means 4 to 7 pages. Fewer means Google has nothing to show. More often means paying for decoration.

Wouldn't a site builder like Wix be cheaper?

At the start, yes, and it is a fair choice when the site only needs to exist. The difference appears at Google visibility. Structure around real searches, speed and solid technical foundations are things you fight the tool for in a builder. A builder site is also rented, while ours you own.

Can I start small and extend the site later?

Yes, and it is the healthy order. A properly built site takes new pages without rebuilding the whole. Start with a scope that adds up, extend when the business calls for it.

What does care after launch look like?

One flat monthly amount covering hosting, the SSL certificate and SEO care. Small content changes, such as hours, prices or photos, take one message, and we reply within 48 hours. The site remains yours throughout.

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