Web design in Manchester
Manchester businesses move fast. Your website should keep up.
A website that keeps up with Manchester, built and managed for £49.99 a month.
- Website: £49.99/month
- Website design fee: £0 upfront
- Minimum term, then it is yours: 18 months
Illustration: Manchester marked on a map of Greater London, beside a listing card for a local business whose website PrimeStart looks after.
Greater Manchester has more good trades, studios and independents per square mile than almost anywhere outside London, and customers who search, compare and call within minutes. We design, build, host and look after a professional WordPress website for £49.99 a month, and can work on your Google visibility as well.
Illustration: a customer in Manchester types “joiner didsbury” into a search engine. No position or result is implied.
Two ways to start in Manchester.
A professional website, or that website with ongoing SEO from the start. The same standard of work whichever you need.
| Plan | Website | Website + SEOWebsite included |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly price | £49.99per month | £349.99per month total. The £49.99 is not added on top. |
| Upfront design fee | £0. Your first £49.99 is taken at signup. | £0. Your first monthly payment is taken at signup. |
| Minimum term | 18 months, £899.82 in total. | 18 months on the website, 6 months on the SEO, running together. |
| What we do each month | Host, secure, back up, update and support the website, with reasonable small changes subject to fair use. | Everything in Website, plus the SEO work. |
| Best for | For Manchester trades, studios and independents that need a professional site with their services, areas and photographs, without a large bill before it exists. | For businesses in the busier parts of the city that want ongoing monthly work on the searches their customers actually use. |
| After the term | The website is yours. Stay at £49.99 a month rolling, or move it elsewhere. | After the SEO minimum you can stop the SEO with 30 days' notice and continue on the Website at £49.99 a month, or keep going. |
| Start | Start my websiteWhat Website includes | Start Website + SEOHow SEO works |
The price is the same in Manchester as it is everywhere else in the UK. Not sure which fits? Talk to someone first or see the full pricing details.
Eighteen months, then the website belongs to you.
Plenty of Manchester businesses have paid for a site they never actually owned. This works differently. Complete the minimum term and the website is yours, to keep with PrimeStart or to take with you.
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Month 1
We design and build it
Your first £49.99 is taken at signup. We build the website around your business and you approve it before anything is published.
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Months 1 to 18
We host, manage and support it
Hosting, security, backups, updates and reasonable small changes, while you make the monthly payments. 18 payments of £49.99, £899.82 in total.
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After month 18
The website is yours
Complete the minimum term and the payments due under it, and the website belongs to you. It was built for your business, and it stays with your business.
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Your choice
Stay, or move it
Stay with PrimeStart at £49.99 a month on a rolling basis with no new minimum term, or move the website to hosting of your own.
Moving the website elsewhere is subject to the third-party licences any website relies on, such as WordPress, plugins, fonts and stock photography. The full wording lives in the Website Subscription Terms.
Greater Manchester
A big city that still works like a collection of villages.
Manchester's economy is genuinely city-sized, but its customers behave locally. Someone in Chorlton wants a plumber who covers Chorlton. A café in Ancoats is competing with the café two doors down, not one in Stockport. A joiner in Didsbury lives on recommendations from the same few roads. The website has to carry that local specificity while still looking like it belongs in a modern city, because the person choosing you has just looked at three other businesses on the same phone.
The volume of competition is the point. In the Northern Quarter, on Burton Road, along Washway Road in Sale, there are usually a dozen businesses that could do the job. The one that gets the call is the one whose website answers the customer's questions before they ask: what exactly you do, which parts of Greater Manchester you cover, what the work looks like, and how to get hold of you right now. We build those answers into the structure of the site rather than burying them in a paragraph.
The housing keeps the trades busy all year: terraced streets in Levenshulme and Withington, semis across Trafford and Bury, warehouse conversions in Ancoats and the newer apartment blocks around the city centre. Each brings different work, and a website that groups your services the way customers describe the problem, then names the areas you actually travel to, turns those searches into enquiries instead of a scroll past.
The searches happening across Manchester right now are the ones we work on.
A burst pipe in Chorlton, a loft conversion in Prestwich, a fade before a night out in the Northern Quarter: every one of them starts with a phone and a search. SEO is ongoing monthly work on three agreed searches like these, so more of those customers have the chance to find your business.
- 01“emergency plumber Manchester”
The search made under pressure, usually from a rental or a flat with water coming through a ceiling. The business that looks reachable and covers the postcode gets the call.
- 02“joiner Didsbury”
Fitted wardrobes, alcove units and doors in period houses. Customers here want to see finished work and know you are local before they ask for a quote.
- 03“barber Northern Quarter”
Chosen on photographs, reviews and whether booking takes ten seconds. The website carries the look of the shop, then gets out of the way.
Examples only. Your three searches are agreed with you around the work you want more of and what people in Greater Manchester actually type. Nobody can promise a position, and we don't.
Illustration of a local search results page for “plumber chorlton”: a map with pins and a short list of businesses, one of them labelled “your business”. The businesses and ratings are examples; no position is implied.
An illustration of the kind of local results SEO works towards. The businesses, ratings and positions shown are examples, not a ranking or a result for any particular business.
Manchester industries
Built around the trade first, then around Manchester.
A builder in Bolton and a barber in Ancoats need very different websites. Each starts from how its customers choose, then adds the areas it covers and the way it wants to be contacted.
Everything a Manchester business needs from its website, in one monthly plan.
Design, build, hosting, security and the ongoing technical work are all part of the same plan, so there is nothing to add on and nothing to remember to renew.
- Design
- Build
- Hosting
- SSL & security
- Backups
- Updates
- Enquiry forms
- Mobile-ready
- Ongoing management
- Support
Questions from Manchester businesses
Which parts of Greater Manchester do you cover?
How much does a business website cost in Manchester?
My customers come from a few specific areas. Can the site reflect that?
I run a restaurant or a barber shop, not a trade. Is this still for me?
What does SEO involve for a Manchester business?
What happens once the 18 months are up?
Nearby
Also covering the North West and across the Pennines.
The same plans, the same price and the same standard of website wherever the van goes.
Somewhere else? PrimeStart works with businesses across the whole of the UK. Find your area or get in touch.
Ready to get your Manchester business online?
A professional website for £49.99 a month, designed, built and looked after by PrimeStart. Add ongoing SEO whenever you want more of the right Manchester customers finding it.
18-month Website minimum, £899.82 in total. First monthly payment at signup. Complete the term and the website is yours.