Web design on East Finchley High Road

The Phoenix Cinema has changed its name four times since 1912 and is still easier to find than most businesses two doors down. Your website has to compete with that.

An East Finchley website that names your own High Road address, for £49.99 a month.

  • Website: £49.99/month
  • Website design fee: £0 upfront
  • Minimum term, then it is yours: 18 months

Illustration: East Finchley marked on a map of Greater London, beside a listing card for a local business whose website PrimeStart looks after.

East Finchley

A High Road built around a station and a cinema, not the other way round.

East Finchley was first mentioned in 1365 as the scattered hamlet of East End; it had become the most populous part of Finchley by 1860, and a recognisable High Road had emerged by 1914, once the Great Northern Railway reached the area in 1868. The present East Finchley Underground station opened in 1939, and Eric Aumonier's Art Deco Archer statue was erected above its entrance the following year.

The Phoenix Cinema opened in May 1912 as the East Finchley Picturedrome, with 428 seats. It was renamed Coliseum in 1924, redesigned and reopened as the Rex in September 1938, and took its present name, Phoenix, in 1975; it received Grade II listing in 2000, which cites its original barrel-vaulted ceiling and 1938 decorative wall panels. It is one of the country's earliest cinemas still operating as one. East Finchley was badly bombed during the Second World War, and post-war rebuilding replaced the pattern of the Old Village's streets. Cherry Tree Wood, covering 4.5 hectares, Holy Trinity Church and St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, described as London's oldest and largest municipal cemetery, all sit around the same High Road.

That combination means a search here is rarely won by default: a customer typing East Finchley is as likely to land on the cinema's own listing as on any business nearby, so the site has to state your exact position on the High Road, not just the area's name, to turn that search into a visit rather than a look at the Phoenix instead.

Where our East Finchley customers trade
  • East Finchley High Road
  • near East Finchley Underground station
  • close to the Phoenix Cinema
  • around Cherry Tree Wood
  • near Holy Trinity Church

If you're on the High Road near the station or the cinema, the site says so specifically, rather than leaving it to the area's name alone.

A well-known cinema on your own road is something to compete with, not hide behind.

"Dentist east finchley high road", "estate agent east finchley", "personal trainer near cherry tree wood": people here search with a specific landmark in mind, because East Finchley already has one everybody knows. Ongoing SEO is monthly work on three agreed searches like these, so your own address gets found ahead of the area's general reputation.

Illustration of a local search results page for “dentist east finchley high road”: 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.

  1. 01
    “dentist East Finchley High Road

    Typed by someone near the station or the Phoenix Cinema who wants a practice on the High Road itself, not just anywhere loosely described as East Finchley.

  2. 02
    “estate agent East Finchley

    A search made near a well-known landmark, where a vague listing gets lost behind results for the cinema or the station itself.

  3. 03
    “personal trainer near Cherry Tree Wood

    Someone using the wood as a landmark rather than a postcode, who wants a business that states its actual position relative to it.

Examples only. The three searches are agreed with you around the work you want more of and what East Finchley customers actually search from. Nobody can promise a position, and we don't.

Two ways to start on East Finchley High Road.

A professional website, or that website with ongoing SEO from the start.

Website
£49.99per month

£0 upfront website design fee

For businesses trading on East Finchley High Road, near the station and the Phoenix Cinema, who need a site that states their own address plainly rather than leaning on the area's reputation.

  • Professional managed WordPress website, generally up to 5 pages
  • Built around your services, the areas you cover and how customers contact you
  • Domain name, hosting, SSL, backups and updates handled for you
  • Reasonable small changes, subject to fair use
  • 18-month minimum, then the website is yours
Website + SEO
Website included
£349.99per month total

Website included. The £49.99 is not added on top.

For High Road businesses competing for the same passing custom the station and cinema already draw, where being found by your own name matters as much as being found at all.

  • Everything in Website
  • 3 agreed priority Google searches for your area
  • Monthly optimisation and Google Business Profile work
  • Clear monthly reporting on what was done
  • 6-month SEO minimum; every month of it counts towards the Website term

The price is the same on East Finchley High Road as anywhere else in the UK. Not sure which fits? Talk to someone first or see the full pricing details.

Eighteen months, then the website is yours.

The Phoenix Cinema has kept trading on the High Road under one name or another since 1912; a website that only ever rents itself back to you monthly doesn't match that kind of staying power. Complete the minimum term here and it belongs to you, whether you stay with PrimeStart or not.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

East Finchley industries

A genuine landmark draws attention here. Your own address has to earn the click.

A dentist and an estate agent on East Finchley High Road are both searched for alongside the station and the Phoenix Cinema, and both need a site that states their own position precisely rather than trading on the area's general name.

See every industry we build for

Everything a East Finchley 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.

What £49.99 a month covers
  • Design
  • Build
  • Hosting
  • SSL & security
  • Backups
  • Updates
  • Enquiry forms
  • Mobile-ready
  • Ongoing management
  • Support
£49.99/month £0 upfront website design fee

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Questions from East Finchley businesses

Do you work with businesses on East Finchley High Road?
Yes, for businesses trading around the station, the Phoenix Cinema, Cherry Tree Wood and Holy Trinity Church. Everything is designed, built and managed remotely, so there is no office to visit.
Is this the same as your Finchley page?
No. That page covers Ballards Lane and North Finchley's own centre, both some distance away. This page is written only for East Finchley's High Road, station and cinema.
Why does the Phoenix Cinema matter to my website?
Because it's one of the country's earliest cinemas still trading, open since 1912 under four different names. A search here often runs into that well-known listing, so stating your own address on the High Road precisely is what turns a search into a visit rather than another look at the cinema's page.
We already have a website we like. Can you just do the SEO?
No. SEO is not sold on its own any more — it is only available as part of Website + SEO, £349.99 a month in total, and that means building you a new PrimeStart website rather than adding search work onto the one you have now. A business on the High Road would be starting from the same place as everyone else here: a new site built around the trade, with the SEO work running from day one rather than retrofitted onto what already exists. Nobody can promise rankings, and we don't.
What does an East Finchley business website cost?
Website is £49.99 a month with a £0 upfront design fee, and it costs the same here as anywhere else. The first £49.99 is taken at signup, and there is an 18-month minimum term, £899.82 in total. Once that term is complete, the website is yours.
How does ongoing SEO work?
Website + SEO is £349.99 a month total, with the website included rather than charged on top. Each month we work on three agreed local searches, for example "dentist east finchley high road", alongside your Google Business Profile and the website itself. Nobody can promise rankings, and we don't.
St Pancras and Islington Cemetery is nearby. Does that mean anything for my website?
Not directly - it's a working municipal cemetery, described as London's oldest and largest, not a destination to trade on. It's mainly useful as an orientation point: if customers use it to find you, the site should say so plainly rather than assume they already know the area.

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Ready for an East Finchley website that names your own High Road address?

A professional website for £49.99 a month, designed, built and looked after by PrimeStart, that states exactly where on the High Road you trade, with ongoing SEO ready whenever you want more of the right customers to find it.

18-month Website minimum, £899.82 in total. First monthly payment at signup. Complete the term and the website is yours.

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