What I do for Canterbury businesses
I design and build websites, and I do the SEO that gets them seen. You deal with me from the first conversation to the launch and after it: nobody else touches your site.
Every job is quoted for the business in front of me, with no price list. You can pay in one go, or over five monthly payments that include SEO, and decide after five months whether to keep the SEO going.
Across the city
Canterbury is a city of small districts. A salon off St Peters Street, a shop in Whitefriars, a garage on Sturry Road and a business on the Kings Mile all want to be found by the people closest to them, and Wincheap has a trade of its own. I plan the pages around those searches rather than one page for the whole city.
Getting to you
14.5 miles by road from my base at Sandyhurst Lane, Ashford TN25 4NX: about 26 minutes’ drive without traffic.
Canterbury is straight up the A28 from me, close enough that popping in to see you costs neither of us a morning. I already work with a business in the city, so Canterbury is familiar ground.
What people in Canterbury search for
Real searches naming Canterbury that showed this site in Google in the three months before 13 October 2026, from Google Search Console, with how often each was shown:
- “seo canterbury” 827 times
- “local seo canterbury” 359 times
- “seo services canterbury” 219 times
- “small business marketing canterbury” 46 times
- “seo and web design canterbury” 1 time
"seo canterbury" was by far the biggest Canterbury search on the old site. The phrase "seo and web design canterbury" barely registered, but it describes what I do best: the site and the search work done together by one person, so neither is fighting the other.
The local business picture
Canterbury district had 5,835 businesses at the March 2026 count, and 5,160 of them (88%) were micro businesses with fewer than 10 employees.
This is the count for the whole Canterbury district, which runs out to Whitstable and Herne Bay. For a city business, the district figure is a reminder that your competition on Google is not only the shop next door but the whole area.
Source: ONS, UK Business Counts 2026, enterprises by employment size band, via Nomis (released 24 September 2026). Enterprises live at the March reference date on the Inter-Departmental Business Register, for Canterbury district as a whole, as rounded by ONS.
Local search checklist for a Canterbury business
- Choose the Google Business Profile category for what you sell, not what you call yourself, and write the description in plain words a visitor would use.
- Give each service its own page and mention the parts of the city you serve, from Wincheap to the Kings Mile, where it is genuinely true.
- Reply to every review, good or bad. People comparing Canterbury firms read the replies as closely as the stars.
- Canterbury BID is the city centre’s business improvement district, worth knowing if you trade inside it. Canterbury BID.
- Canterbury City Council’s business pages cover rates, licensing and support. Canterbury City Council: business and investment.
Questions from Canterbury businesses
Have you worked with a business in Canterbury?
Yes. I rebuilt the website for Therapy Hair Body & Nails, a salon in Canterbury, mobile first, and set up their local SEO. The case study is on this site.
Can you do the website and the SEO together?
That is how I prefer to work. SEO is planned into the build from day one: the structure, the content and the speed, before the site goes live.
Do you have a price list?
No. Every project is quoted for the business in front of me. You can pay in one go, or over five monthly payments with SEO included.
How quickly could a new site be ready?
A build usually takes 1 to 2 weeks once we have agreed what it needs to do.
Do you also design logos for Canterbury firms?
Yes. Alongside websites and SEO I design logos and brand guidelines, so the site, the signage and the social profiles all match.
Let’s make your website work for you.
Tell me about your business. I’ll reply within 1 to 2 working days.
- No jargon
- No pushy sales
- Just honest advice