Website design for Seattle small businesses - ready today

Customers here research first

Seattle is a city that looks things up. Before booking a nail appointment in Capitol Hill, a landscaper in Shoreline or a photographer for a wedding on the Sound, people compare a few sites on their phone. The businesses that win are the ones whose site answers the questions in the first screen: what exactly you do, what it costs, where you are and how to book.

That also means the site has to be fast and clean on mobile. Heavy pages with autoplay video and pop-ups lose people before they load; simple pages with real photos and plain text keep them.

A region of neighborhoods and Eastside cities

Local search here is split between Seattle neighborhoods - Ballard, Fremont, Capitol Hill, Columbia City, West Seattle - and the cities around them: Bellevue, Redmond, Kirkland, Renton, Kent, Federal Way, Lynnwood, Everett, Tacoma. Name the one you are in and, if you travel to customers, list the areas you cover, so Google can match you to the right searches.

Puget Sound is also home to large Russian- and Ukrainian-speaking communities, especially in the south and east suburbs, alongside Spanish, Vietnamese and many other languages. A site can be built in the language your customers read first.

What a Seattle business site needs

• an online booking link or request form - many customers will not call
• prices or starting prices, stated up front
• photos of your real work, not stock images
• the neighborhood or city, and the areas you serve
• a page that loads fast on a phone