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How Much Does a Website Cost in Edinburgh, and What Should You Get for It?

  • Writer: Martin Kay
    Martin Kay
  • Jul 20
  • 23 min read

A website in Edinburgh typically costs anywhere from around £600 for a well-built single-page site to £10,000 or more for a large, complex build, with most business websites landing somewhere in between. The right number depends far less on how the site looks and far more on one thing: whether it is built to be found by the right people in the right part of Edinburgh. That is the whole idea behind how I work, built for Google, designed for your customers. This guide walks through what you actually pay, what drives the price up or down, and how to tell a website that earns its keep from one that just sits there. If you want to skip the reading and talk it through, here is our Edinburgh web design page.


I am Martin Kay, and I run Power On Web Design, a freelance web design studio from my office in South Gyle, Edinburgh. I build on Wix Studio, I focus on local SEO, and I work with real businesses across the city and the Lothians. So the prices below are what I see in this market every week, not figures pulled from a national average.


What does a small business website cost in Edinburgh?

Most small business websites in Edinburgh land somewhere between £600 and £10,000, with the majority of proper business sites sitting in the £1,500 to £3,000 range. At the lower end you get a tidy single-page or template build. As the price climbs, you are paying for custom design, more pages, and the search foundations that get you found locally. The figure on its own tells you very little until you know what is inside it.

Here is the honest lay of the land, tier by tier:

  • DIY on a website builder: roughly £150 to £350 a year in subscription, plus a lot of your own time. You do all the building.

  • Single-page site by a freelancer: from around £600. Clean, professional, and an ideal starting point for some businesses.

  • Custom multi-page business site with local SEO: around £1,500 to £4,000. This is where most Edinburgh businesses that want enquiries should be looking.

  • Larger, complex or e-commerce projects: £10,000 and up, depending on scale and requirements.

Where does Power On sit? In the freelance tier, building custom sites with local SEO baked in, without the agency overheads. Every quote is scoped to the job, so the honest answer to "what will mine cost" is a conversation, not a number off a shelf.


Why does website pricing vary so much?

Website pricing varies because you are not buying a fixed product, you are buying a mix of design, build time, content, and search foundations, and every business needs a different amount of each. A single-page site for a sole trader and a fifteen-page site for a growing firm are both "a website", but the work behind them is worlds apart. Two quotes that look far apart on price are often just quoting for two different jobs.

The biggest hidden variable is whether search is included. A cheap site is often cheap because nobody has done the local SEO work that makes it show up on Google. You are paying less because you are getting less, even if it looks identical on the surface.


What is actually included in the price of a website?

A website price should cover design, build, mobile optimisation, on-page SEO, and the setup of your core pages, but the details differ hugely between quotes. Some include copywriting, some expect you to write it. Some include local SEO groundwork, most do not. Some hand you a site and vanish, others support you afterwards. Before you compare two prices, make sure you are comparing the same scope.

When I quote, I am clear about what is in and what is not. Local SEO foundations, mobile-first build, and support after launch are part of how I work, not extras bolted on at the end. If a quote is vague about what you get, that vagueness usually costs you later.


Why is on-page SEO so important, and why do so many sites get it wrong?

On-page SEO is essential because it is the groundwork that tells Google what your site is about and who it serves, and without it even a beautiful site stays invisible. Get it right and Google can understand and rank you. Get it wrong and you are relying on luck. This is exactly why my whole approach is built for Google, designed for your customers, because the two have to work together, not fight each other.

So what are the on-page fundamentals? These are the basics every page should have, and the things worth asking any designer about directly:

  • Page titles and meta descriptions that are unique to each page and include what people actually search for.

  • A single, clear H1 and a logical heading structure so both readers and Google can follow the page.

  • Genuinely useful written content that answers real customer questions, not thin filler.

  • Descriptive image alt text, which helps accessibility and search, and matters a lot for local images.

  • Fast loading speed and a clean mobile layout, since most local searches happen on a phone.

  • Sensible URLs and internal links that connect your pages together.

  • Local signals: your area named properly, your name, address and phone consistent, and content that speaks to the neighbourhoods you serve.

Here is what genuinely surprises me: the number of agency sites and professional-looking builds I come across that fail these most basic checks. Gorgeous design, real money spent, and the fundamentals simply not done. It happens far more than people would believe. This is exactly where choosing the right agency or designer matters, and where asking the right questions pays for itself. Ask any designer, in plain terms, which of the basics above they cover. A confident, specific answer is a good sign. A vague one tells you plenty. You get what you pay for, but only if you know what you are actually paying for.


What tools should be connected when my website launches?

Every new website should be connected to Google Search Console, Google Analytics and Bing Webmaster Tools at launch, and these are basics that get skipped far too often. They cost nothing, they take a competent designer minutes to set up, and without them you are flying blind and, worse, you may not even be telling the search engines your site exists. Here is what each one does and why it matters.

  • Google Search Console is how you talk to Google. It lets you submit your sitemap so Google knows about every page, shows you which searches you appear for, flags any indexing or mobile problems, and tells you if Google cannot see your site properly. If this is not set up, nobody is watching whether Google can actually find and read your pages.

  • Google Analytics tells you what people do once they arrive: how many visitors you get, where they come from, which pages they read, and what leads to an enquiry. Without it you have no idea whether the site is working or where your leads are coming from. You are guessing.

  • Bing Webmaster Tools does for Microsoft's Bing what Search Console does for Google. Bing is smaller than Google, but it still carries real traffic, it powers other search tools, and it increasingly feeds AI answer engines. Submitting your site here is a quick job that too many people ignore.

Depending on the business, there are other sensible connections too, like Google Business Profile for local map visibility, which is essential for any business serving a local area, and a proper XML sitemap and robots file so search engines can crawl the site cleanly. I set these up as standard on every build, because a website you cannot measure is a website you cannot improve.


Why isn't my Edinburgh business showing up on Google?

If your Edinburgh business is not showing up on Google, it is almost always because the site was built to look good but not to be found, and the local search work was never done. A beautiful website with no local SEO is like a lovely shop up a close with no sign on the street. This is the single most common reason people come to me: they paid for a site, it went live, and nothing happened.

Edinburgh makes this sharper than most places. Search here happens at neighbourhood level. Someone looking for a plumber in Leith, a café in Stockbridge, or a firm in Morningside is not searching "Edinburgh", they are searching their bit of it. If your site does not speak to those local searches, you are invisible to the people closest to you.


My website does nothing for me. Is that normal?

No, and this is the objection I hear most often, usually said as if a website is just a cost you have to carry. Your website should be working for you, bringing in enquiries, showing up when local people search, and turning visitors into customers. If it does nothing, that is not proof that websites are a waste of time. It is proof that yours was never set up to do a job in the first place.

The trap is deciding the whole idea is pointless because one badly built site let you down. I understand why people feel that way, they paid good money and got silence. But the fault is in the build, not the concept. A site that was never made findable, never structured around what your customers search, and never given proper on-page and local SEO was always going to sit there doing nothing. Put those foundations in and the same business, in the same market, starts getting found. A website should earn its place. If yours is not, the answer is to fix why, not to write off the whole thing.


Does where my business is in Edinburgh affect the website I need?

Yes, where you are and who you serve in Edinburgh directly shapes the site you need, because the city competes at neighbourhood level, not as one blob. A trades business covering Leith, Portobello and the east needs different area pages and local signals from a boutique in the New Town or a practice out in Morningside. Getting this right is the difference between ranking in your patch and drowning city-wide.

This is the local condition that changes the whole job here. In a smaller town, one location and one set of keywords might do. In Edinburgh, you are stacking neighbourhoods, and each one is its own little battleground on Google. A site that names and targets the areas you actually work in will out-perform a slicker, more expensive site that just says "Edinburgh" and hopes. That neighbourhood-level local SEO work is where a lot of the real value sits.


How does the Festival affect Edinburgh businesses' websites?

The Festival and tourist season put a huge, predictable spike of visitors and searches in front of any customer-facing Edinburgh business, and a website has to be ready to catch it. Cafés, restaurants, tour operators, shops and accommodation all see demand surge in August, much of it from people who have never heard of them and are searching on a phone as they walk. If your site is slow, hard to find, or not built for mobile, that traffic goes to a competitor.

This is worth factoring into the budget. For a seasonal or tourist-facing business, the website is not a nice-to-have, it is the shopfront for the busiest weeks of the year. Spending a little more to be genuinely visible and fast during that window usually pays for itself in a single season.


How much does a single-page website cost?

A single-page website in Edinburgh starts at around £600, and for some businesses it is an ideal starting point. It suits a sole trader or a very small business that mainly needs a professional online presence, the key information in one place, and a clear way to be contacted. It is a real, legitimate option, and for the right business it is exactly enough.

The honest limit is this: a single page can only carry so much local SEO and cover so many searches. If your plan is "put a site up and wait for a steady stream of enquiries across the city", you will usually outgrow one page. It is a strong first step, not always the finished article.


How much does a website with local SEO cost?

A custom multi-page website with proper local SEO built in typically costs between £1,500 and £4,000 in Edinburgh, and for most businesses that want the site to bring in work, this is the right band. You are paying for the design and build, plus the area targeting, page structure, and on-page search foundations that make the site visible to local searches. This is the tier that actually generates enquiries rather than just existing.

The reason this costs more is simple: someone has done real work to make you findable. That work is what separates a website that pays for itself from one that sits quietly costing you nothing and earning you nothing.


How much does an e-commerce website cost in Edinburgh?

An e-commerce website in Edinburgh generally starts higher than a brochure site and can run past £10,000, depending on how many products you sell and how much the shop needs to do. Selling online adds payment setup, product pages, stock handling, delivery logic and more testing, so it is a bigger build. The more your shop has to manage, the higher the figure climbs.

For online shops I build on Shopify, and I am a Shopify Partner, so this is a platform I know inside out. Shopify is one of the most powerful e-commerce solutions available for a good reason: it is built purely for selling. Secure checkout and payments are handled for you, it copes easily as your product range and order volume grow, it works properly on mobile where most shopping now happens, and it connects to the tools you already use for stock, shipping and marketing. That means fewer things to break and less time spent fighting the technology instead of running your shop. For a small business, a cheap shop that fails at checkout costs you far more in lost sales than it ever saved, so a robust, proven platform earns its keep. If you are a small business selling a handful of products, the cost can stay modest. If you are running a full catalogue with lots of moving parts, budget properly and build it on something that can take the weight.


How much do web design agencies in Edinburgh charge?

Edinburgh agencies typically charge from around £5,000 to £15,000 and up for a business website, and more again for larger projects. You are paying for a team, an office, account managers and overheads, which can be exactly right for a bigger organisation with a big remit. For a small or medium local business, though, a lot of that spend goes on structure you do not need.

There is nothing wrong with agencies. It is about fit, and about competence. As I said above, plenty of agency sites still miss the on-page basics, so a bigger price tag is no guarantee of a better-performing site. Ask the same hard questions of an agency that you would of a freelancer.


Is a freelance web designer cheaper than an agency?

A freelance web designer is almost always cheaper than an agency for the same quality of small business site, often by a wide margin, because there are no agency overheads to fund. With a freelancer you are paying for the work, not the office. For most Edinburgh small businesses, that means a better site for less money.

The other difference people underestimate is contact. With an agency you often deal with an account manager. With me, you deal with me, start to finish. The person quoting the job is the person building it, which keeps things honest and quick.


Is a cheap website worth it?

A cheap website is worth it only if cheap is genuinely all you need, and for most businesses chasing enquiries, it is a false economy. The problem is not the price, it is what gets cut to hit that price, and it is nearly always the local SEO and the on-page basics. You end up with something that looks fine and does nothing.

I would rather tell you straight: if budget is tight and you truly just need a simple presence, a modest single-page site is fine and I will say so. But if you are expecting the website to bring in work, the cheapest option usually costs you the most, because it never delivers the one thing you bought it for.


What drives the cost of a website up or down?

The main things that move a website's price are the number of pages, whether the design is custom or template, how much content you need written, and how much local SEO work is involved. E-commerce, bookings and integrations push it up. A tight page count and content you supply yourself bring it down. Understanding these levers lets you shape the project to your budget rather than being surprised by the quote.

The biggest single lever is search. A site with real local SEO and solid on-page foundations costs more up front and is worth far more over time. A site without them is cheaper and, for most businesses, close to pointless.


How long does it take to build a website in Edinburgh?

Most small business websites take between two and six weeks to build, depending on the size of the site and how quickly content and feedback come back. A single-page site can be done in a couple of weeks. A larger custom build with local SEO and multiple area pages takes longer because there is more to do properly. The single biggest cause of delay is waiting on content and sign-off from the client, not the build itself.

I keep timelines realistic and tell you what I need from you and when. A clear process means the project moves instead of drifting.


What platform should my website be built on?

For most Edinburgh small businesses, a modern platform like Wix Studio hits the sweet spot of professional design, strong performance and easy ongoing management, and for online shops I turn to Shopify. I build standard business sites on Wix Studio because it lets me create fast, custom, search-ready sites without locking you into expensive developer time for small changes. For anyone selling online, I build on Shopify, where I am a Shopify Partner, because it is purpose-built for e-commerce. The right platform is the one that serves your business, not the one that impresses other web designers.

WordPress, Squarespace and others all have their place. The honest point is that platform matters far less than whether the person building it knows how to make it findable. A well-built Wix Studio or Shopify site with proper on-page and local SEO will out-perform a poorly built site on any platform.


Can I build my own website to save money?

You can absolutely build your own website to save money, and for some businesses it is a sensible starting point. Website builders make it possible to get something live for the cost of a subscription. What you are spending instead is your time, and what you usually miss is the on-page and local SEO knowledge that gets the site found, along with the setup work like connecting Search Console and Analytics that most people never think to do. A DIY site that nobody sees, and that you cannot even measure, has not saved you anything.

If you enjoy the process and have time, go for it. If your time is better spent running your business, paying someone to do it right often works out cheaper once you count the hours and the missed enquiries.


What's the difference between a cheap website and one that gets enquiries?

The difference is almost entirely in the search foundations and the strategy behind the site, not in how it looks. A cheap site and an enquiry-generating site can look nearly identical on screen. One has been built to be found in your part of Edinburgh, structured around what your customers actually search, with the on-page basics done properly. The other just exists. It comes back to the same principle every time: built for Google, designed for your customers.

This is the whole game. People do not pay for pretty, they pay for the phone ringing. A site that gets enquiries has had real thought put into being found and being persuasive. That is what you are actually buying.


How much should a tradesperson's website cost in Edinburgh?

A tradesperson's website in Edinburgh usually costs between £1,000 and £3,000 for a site built to bring in local work, and for trades the local SEO is the whole point. Plumbers, electricians, cleaners and builders live or die on local search, so a trades site without proper area targeting is money wasted. Spend where it counts: being found across the neighbourhoods you cover.

A good example is MacMac Cleaning Services, a pressure-washing business in East Lothian I work with. Using my structured framework on site foundations and SEO, their site now appears in Google's AI Overviews and holds top-three organic rankings for their key searches. That is what the right build does for a trades business: it puts you in front of people at the moment they are looking.


How much does a café or restaurant website cost in Edinburgh?

A café or restaurant website in Edinburgh typically costs between £1,500 and £4,000, with the value sitting in being fast, mobile and visible to both locals and visitors. Food and hospitality sites get most of their traffic from phones, often from people standing nearby or planning a visit, and a lot of it spikes during Festival season. The site has to load quickly, show the essentials, and be easy to find on a map search.

For hospitality, being visible to tourists in August is worth real budget. A slow or hard-to-find site during your busiest weeks is a genuine cost, not a small one.


Do I need to pay for SEO separately?

Whether SEO is a separate cost depends on how your web designer works, and it is a question you should always ask directly. Some build a site and treat SEO as a monthly add-on afterwards. I build the on-page and local SEO foundations into the site itself, so you are not paying twice for something that should have been there from the start. Ongoing SEO campaigns are a separate, optional matter, but the groundwork should always be baked in.

For businesses that want to push harder on rankings after launch, I offer two ongoing local SEO tiers, at £300 and £500 a month, so you can scale the effort to your ambitions. That is a choice, not a hidden charge. Be wary of a cheap build followed by a surprise "and now you need SEO" invoice for work that should already have been done.


What are the ongoing costs of a website?

The ongoing costs of a website are usually hosting, a domain name, and any optional maintenance or SEO, and the maintenance side starts at around £100 a month with me. Hosting and domain are the running costs of being online. Maintenance covers keeping the site secure, updated and working. Some people handle updates themselves, others prefer to hand it over.

I offer website maintenance from £100 a month so the site stays looked after without you having to think about it. It is optional, and I will tell you honestly whether you need it or whether you are fine managing things yourself.


How much does website hosting cost?

On Wix Studio, hosting is part of the platform, so you are not juggling a separate hosting provider or a surprise bill. It is bundled into a predictable platform cost, which keeps things simple and reliable. Shopify works the same way for online shops, with hosting and security handled as part of the platform. You are paying for your site to be online, fast and secure, without the fiddle of managing hosting yourself.

The honest point is that hosting is rarely where you should be cutting corners. Cheap, unreliable hosting causes slow load times and downtime, and both cost you visitors. Having it handled as part of the platform takes that worry off your plate.


How much does website maintenance cost?

My website maintenance starts at £100 a month, and covers keeping your site secure, updated and running as it should. At the entry level you are covered for the essentials. Higher up, you get more hands-on support and regular changes. Not every business needs a maintenance plan, and I will say so if yours does not.

Good support after launch is something I take seriously. A website is not a one-off transaction, it is something that should keep working for you, and being reachable when you need a change matters.


Do you redesign existing websites?

No, I don't patch up or redesign an existing site. I rebuild from the ground up, because that is the only way to be sure the foundations are set up correctly. Reskinning a site that was never built for search just puts a new coat of paint over the same problems, and those problems are usually why it is not performing in the first place.

Here is the honest reason behind that. If you are looking for a new site, it is almost always because the current one is not performing, not producing results, not bringing in leads. A cosmetic redesign leaves the broken on-page and local SEO foundations exactly where they were, so nothing really changes. Building fresh lets me get the structure, the search foundations and the local targeting right from the start, which is the whole point of doing it. It costs a similar amount to a redesign in most cases, and you actually end up with a site that works, rather than a prettier version of one that doesn't. Before we start, I look at why the current site is failing and tell you plainly what needs to change.


What questions should I ask before paying for a website?

Before you pay for any website in Edinburgh, ask what on-page and local SEO is included, who you will actually deal with, what happens after launch, and whether you own the site. These questions tell you almost everything about the quality behind the price. A vague answer on any of them is a warning sign. A clear answer means you know what you are buying.

Go a step further and ask about their approach to on-page SEO specifically. The fundamentals listed earlier, unique page titles and meta descriptions, a clear heading structure, useful content, image alt text, fast mobile loading, sensible URLs and internal links, and proper local signals, should be the minimum standard, not optional extras. Ask too whether they will connect Google Search Console, Google Analytics and Bing Webmaster Tools at launch, and set up your Google Business Profile if you serve a local area. These are free, quick and essential, and a designer who does not do them as standard is leaving you blind. If a designer cannot tell you they do all of that as a matter of course, that is your answer. Then add one more: ask to see real results. Not just a portfolio of nice-looking sites, but evidence that those sites do something, like ranking well or being found locally. Looks are easy, and as I keep saying, plenty of good-looking sites fail the basics. Results are the point.


How do I know if I'm being overcharged?

You are likely being overcharged if the price is high but nobody can explain what the extra money buys, or if you are paying agency rates for a straightforward local site that still skips the SEO basics. Overcharging usually hides in vagueness and in overheads you do not need. If a quote cannot be broken down into clear work, be cautious. If a small local job is priced like an enterprise project, question it.

The flip side matters too. A price that looks like a bargain but excludes all the search work is not cheap, it is incomplete. Fair pricing is the honest middle: paying for the work that gets you found, and not a penny for machinery you will never use. You should get what you pay for, in both directions.


Which areas of Edinburgh do you cover?

I work with businesses right across Edinburgh and the surrounding areas, including South Gyle, Corstorphine, Leith, Stockbridge, Morningside, the New Town and Portobello, and out into the Lothians. Because Edinburgh search happens neighbourhood by neighbourhood, I build sites that target the specific areas each client actually serves. Wherever your customers are looking, that is where the site needs to be found.

Being based in South Gyle, I know the west of the city well, and a lot of my work is with businesses in East Lothian and the wider region too.


What does the process look like and how are you charged?

The process runs from an honest first conversation, through design and build, to launch and support, with pricing agreed up front so there are no surprises. I listen first, work out what your business actually needs, and quote for that, not for a package you have to squeeze into. You know the cost before we start.

In short: we talk, I scope and quote, we agree it, I build, we launch, and I am still here afterwards. Direct contact with me the whole way, from first call to after go-live.


Why choose Power On Web Design for a website in Edinburgh?

Power On Web Design is a freelance studio built around one idea: built for Google, designed for your customers. I am freelance, not an agency, so you get direct contact with me and freelance pricing without agency overheads. I build on Wix Studio, I am a Shopify Partner for online shops, I get the on-page and local SEO right where too many others don't, I connect the tools that let you measure results, I support you after launch, and I have over thirty five-star reviews from businesses I have done exactly this for. I think like a business partner, not a supplier, because your enquiries are the point, not the pixels.

Real proof matters more than promises. MacMac Cleaning Services now holds top-three rankings and appears in Google's AI Overviews thanks to the framework I use on every build. If you want a website in Edinburgh that gets found and gets you work, that is the whole job. Have a look at what I do on the Edinburgh web design page, and when you are ready, get in touch for an honest quote.


FAQs

How much does a website cost in Edinburgh on average?

Websites in Edinburgh run from around £600 for a single-page site to £10,000 or more for large or complex builds, with most business sites sitting between £1,500 and £3,000.

What is the cheapest way to get a website?

The cheapest route is building it yourself on a website builder for the cost of a subscription, though you pay for it in time and usually miss the on-page and local SEO that gets you found.

How much is a single-page website?

A single-page website starts at around £600 with me, and it can be an ideal starting point for a sole trader or very small business that needs a professional presence in one place.

What are the basics of on-page SEO?

The on-page basics are unique page titles and meta descriptions, a clear H1 and heading structure, genuinely useful content, descriptive image alt text, fast loading, a clean mobile layout, sensible URLs and internal links, and local signals like your area and contact details. Ask any designer which of these they cover.

What tools should be connected to my website at launch?

Every site should be connected to Google Search Console, Google Analytics and Bing Webmaster Tools at launch, plus a Google Business Profile if you serve a local area. Search Console lets Google find and read your pages, Analytics shows what visitors do, and Bing covers Microsoft's search. They are free and essential.

My website does nothing for me, is it worth having one at all?

A website that does nothing usually just means yours was never built to perform, not that websites don't work. With proper on-page and local SEO, the same business in the same market starts getting found and bringing in enquiries.

Do you redesign existing websites?

No. I rebuild from the ground up rather than reskin an old site, because a cosmetic redesign leaves the broken foundations that stopped it performing in the first place. Building fresh gets the structure and SEO right from the start.

What platform is best for an online shop?

Shopify is one of the strongest platforms for an online shop, because it is purpose-built for selling, with secure checkout, easy scaling, strong mobile performance and simple links to stock and shipping tools. I build shops on Shopify as a Shopify Partner.

What should I ask a web designer before hiring them?

Ask what on-page and local SEO is included, who you will deal with, what happens after launch, whether you own the site, their specific approach to on-page SEO, and whether they connect Search Console, Analytics and Bing at launch. The fundamentals should be their minimum standard. Ask to see real results too.

Is a freelancer cheaper than an agency for web design?

Yes, a freelancer is almost always cheaper than an agency for the same quality of small business site, because there are no agency overheads and you deal directly with the person building it.

Does the price include SEO?

It depends on the designer. I build on-page and local SEO foundations into every site, so you are not paying separately for something that should be there from the start.

Why do so many professional sites still fail on SEO?

Because the on-page basics get skipped, even on expensive agency builds. Good-looking design is no guarantee the fundamentals were done, which is why asking the right questions matters.

Do I have to pay monthly for a website?

You do not have to, but you will have running costs. Hosting sits within the Wix Studio or Shopify platform, and optional extras like maintenance from £100 a month or ongoing local SEO are your choice.

How long does it take to build a website?

Most small business sites take two to six weeks, depending on size and how quickly content and feedback come back from you.

Why isn't my current website getting enquiries?

Almost always because it was built to look good rather than to be found, and the on-page and local SEO work was never done, so the right people never see it.

Do I own my website?

You should always own your website and its content. Ask this before you pay, because some cheap arrangements leave you renting a site you can never take with you.

What platform do you build on?

I build standard business sites on Wix Studio and online shops on Shopify, where I am a Shopify Partner. Both give strong performance and easy management without costly developer time for small changes.

How much does a trades website cost in Edinburgh?

A trades website built to bring in local work usually costs between £1,000 and £3,000, with the local SEO being the part that actually generates enquiries.

How much does ongoing local SEO cost?

I offer two ongoing local SEO tiers, at £300 and £500 a month, so you can scale the effort to your goals. It is optional and separate from the foundations built into the site.

What are the ongoing costs after launch?

Hosting is part of the Wix Studio or Shopify platform, with optional maintenance from £100 a month and optional local SEO from £300 a month if you want to push harder on rankings.

Is a cheap website ever a good idea?

Only if a simple presence is genuinely all you need. If you want the site to bring in work, the cheapest option usually costs you the most by never delivering enquiries.

Do you offer support after the website goes live?

Yes. I support clients after launch and offer optional maintenance from £100 a month, because a website should keep working for you, not be handed over and forgotten.

How do I get an accurate quote?

The only way to get an accurate figure is a short conversation about what your business actually needs, so I can scope and price the real job rather than guess.

What makes Power On different from other Edinburgh web designers?

Direct contact with me, freelance pricing, Wix Studio and Shopify builds, on-page and local SEO done properly on every build, the right tools connected so you can measure results, support after launch, over thirty five-star reviews, and the promise behind every build: built for Google, designed for your customers.

Ready to talk about your website?

If you want a straight answer on what your project would cost, get in touch and I will give you an honest quote with no jargon and no pressure.

 
 
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