Pricing
Prices for a city where most agencies will not print one
Three tiers of monthly work by how far your customers come from, three sizes of website, two things bought once. A cafe in Southsea and a boatyard in Gosport pay the same for the same work, and the audit tells you which line fits before you spend anything.
Monthly SEO
Pick by how far your customers come from
Every tier includes the profile, the review routine, the technical care, the AI-readiness work and a monthly report from the person who did the work. Three-month minimum, then monthly. The first month is free with any website package.
One district
Local
One business, one base on the island or just off it, one Google profile
£399 a month
- Google profile built and kept right
- Reviews asked for at every job or table
- Pages for the searches Portsmouth makes
- A monthly report from Search Console you can read
The city and the towns around
Growth
A business drawing from Portsmouth, Fareham, Gosport and Havant, or a crowded trade in the city
£599 a month
- All of Local
- A new page or guide each month
- Citations and local mentions each month
- A technical and speed pass each quarter
Two bases or two markets
Multi-area
Two or more bases, or a business with a marine arm and a domestic arm
£799 a month
- All of Growth
- A profile and pages for each base
- Two pieces of writing a month
- Google Ads managed on request
Prices exclude VAT. Google Ads spend is paid to Google directly and is never included or marked up. 3-month minimum, then monthly, one month's notice.
Websites
Built once, owned by you, none of them a one-page site
The smallest we build
Starter
£599 one-off
The smallest site we build and still a real one: a home page, a page for each thing you do, your work or your menu, who you are, and a form that lands on your phone.
- Home, four to six service pages, work or menu, about, contact
- Your photographs, resized and captioned, no stock
- Enquiry form to inbox and phone
- Google profile linked and matched
- Month one of SEO free, then the tier price if you stay
- Hosting and care separate, £159 a year
The standard
Business site
£1,200 one-off
The full site: fourteen to eighteen pages, every service, the areas from Southsea to Fareham, the people, the enquiry path on every page, and room to grow if you take the monthly work.
- Every service page, areas, about, contact, the first guides
- Written with you, in your words
- Markup, sitemap, Search Console
- Hosting, SSL, security and a year of care inside
- Month one of SEO free, then the tier price if you stay
Earning from month one
Business site + growth
£1,600 one-off
The Business site with the whole SEO package running from day one, for a business that wants the site earning in its first month; no page count, because the guides keep adding to it.
- All of Business site
- The full SEO package from launch: profile, reviews, citations, first guides
- Month one included, then the Growth price if you stay
- Hosting, SSL, security and a year of care inside
- Handover report after month one
Hosting and care is inside the two bigger packages for the first year and £159 a year with Starter. Every package carries the first month of the SEO retainer free.
Bought once
Google Business Profile build, £200
The profile done properly, once, for a Portsmouth business that only needs the map fixed or is not ready for a monthly retainer. Done within 5 working days; the £200 comes off your first month if you start the Local tier within sixty days.
- Claimed, verified or created the right way, video verification handled if Google asks
- Primary category for what you want more of, every true secondary added
- Google's predefined services ticked, yours added with from-prices where you use them
- Description, hours including weekends, service area matching where you actually work
- Photo brief, uploads and captions: the frontage, the boat, the van, the team, the work
- Questions and answers seeded from what customers ask
- Review link, a card for the counter or the invoice, replies to existing reviews
- Website link tagged so Search Console and Analytics show what the profile sends
- Competitors with keyword-stuffed profile names reported
- A one-page handover: what to post, how often, what never to touch
Bought yearly
Hosting and care, £159 a year
The site stays up, safe and current without you thinking about it: a year of hosting on our servers, ssl, security patches, monitoring, backups every day, bugs fixed, text and photo changes as things change. In the price for the first year of the Business site and above; £159 a year for Starter sites and for every site from the second year.
What each package contains is on the web design page.
Does it pay?
Test it on your own figures
What a customer is worth once costs are paid, how many enquiries become jobs, how many extra a month you want. The page shows what the retainer has to produce and where break-even sits.
- Enquiries that needs each month
- 15
- Work those jobs are worth
- £2,700
- Against Local at £399 a month
- 6.8x
- Enquiries a month to break even
- 3
Your figures, your maths. It does not predict what Google will send; the audit does that for your town. It shows what the retainer has to produce to be worth it, which is the question to hold us to.
Three prices, one rule
The map you want to win sets the tier
The island is several maps: Southsea, Fratton, North End, Cosham on the mainland. Local wins one of them. Growth wins the ones you serve plus the towns across the water. Multi-area is for a business with two bases or two trades, each needing its own profile and pages.
Nothing else moves the price. Not the size of the business, not the trade, not the competition. A dentist in Southsea takes longer to move than a boat surveyor in Gosport, and the audit says so; it does not cost more.
The writing scales with the tier because the map does: one page or guide a month on Growth, two on Multi-area, each written from a conversation with you rather than generated.
How to judge it
What the third and the sixth month should show
Month three: impressions rising in Search Console for your searches in your district, the profile complete, reviews arriving. Month six: enquiries you can trace to the site and the profile, or a plain conversation about why not and what changes. The caveats are on the results page.
Questions Portsmouth businesses ask us
Is my trade still free in Portsmouth?
Probably. One business per trade per district on the Local tier and one per trade in the city on Growth, and the reply to the quote form confirms it. A Southsea restaurant and a Cosham restaurant are different maps and can both be clients.
Can I move between tiers?
Yes, at any month end after the first three. Most businesses start on Local, move to Growth when the first district is won and they want the next, and only a few need Multi-area.
What happens to the price when I add Gosport or Fareham?
Nothing on Local if it is a page on your site. Growth if you want the map there as well. Multi-area only if you genuinely have a second base across the water.
Why is the profile build so much cheaper than a month of SEO?
Because it is a fixed job done once: £200, 5 working days, handed over with a routine. The tier is the same profile kept right every month plus the pages, the reviews, the mentions and the report.
Do you take Google Ads spend?
No. Click spend is paid to Google directly and never marked up. Management is inside Multi-area or quoted on its own.
Is VAT added?
Prices exclude VAT and the position is confirmed on the quote before you commit, never on the invoice.
What is not in the price?
Photography (we brief you, you shoot, or we recommend a local photographer), the domain if you do not own one yet, and any claim we cannot verify, which we will not write.
Get the audit, then decide
Send us your website and your trade. You get a plain-English review, the line on this page that fits, and a fixed price. No pressure, no long contract.