Web design for businesses in West Ham
Every search for your area returns a football club that stopped playing here in 1904.
A West Ham site that reaches people looking for the place, for £49.99 a month.
- Website: £49.99/month
- Website design fee: £0 upfront
- Minimum term, then it is yours: 18 months
Illustration: West Ham marked on a map of Greater London, beside a listing card for a local business whose website PrimeStart looks after.
West Ham is a real place with a name recorded in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 958, when King Edgar granted the Manor of Ham to Ealdorman Athelstan, and an interchange on Manor Road where the Jubilee, Hammersmith and City and District lines meet c2c services and the DLR. What it no longer has is control of its own name: West Ham United is named after the area, has not played here for well over a century and is now at Stratford. No amount of writing the area name will outrank the fixtures. Naming Manor Road, All Saints Church or West Ham Park is what gets a local customer past them. We design, build, host and manage that kind of site for £49.99 a month, and we can work on your Google visibility once it is live.
Illustration: a customer in West Ham types “electrician west ham” into a search engine. No position or result is implied.
West Ham
A parish named in 958, an interchange on Manor Road, and a name owned by a football club.
The place name derives from the Old English hamm, meaning a dry area of land between rivers or marshland, describing the ground around All Saints Church and West Ham Park that is bounded by the Lea, the Thames and the Roding. The term Hamme first appears in an Anglo-Saxon charter of 958, when King Edgar granted the Manor of Ham to Ealdorman Athelstan, and West Ham as distinct from Ham or East Ham was first recorded in 1186 as Westhamma. It became a large ancient parish of around 4,500 acres.
It was once far more than a district. West Ham became a county borough in 1889, and by the 1901 census it was the ninth most populous district in England, with a population of 267,308. In 1965 the county borough was abolished and merged with East Ham to form the London Borough of Newham. Today the commercial reality is quieter: West Ham station on Manor Road is a major interchange, and around it are light industry, housing and the Lea rather than a shopping street.
The search problem is the sharpest in this batch. West Ham United is named after the area, its nicknames the Irons and the Hammers come from the Thames Ironworks and Shipbuilding Company, and it moved away long ago. Anyone typing the two words gets fixtures, results and transfer news. A business here has to be found by something else entirely: Manor Road, the station, All Saints Church or West Ham Park.
- West Ham station, Manor Road
- All Saints Church, West Ham
- West Ham Park
- Abbey Mills Pumping Station
The area name is dominated by a football club, so we lead with Manor Road, the station or the park rather than with the two words on their own.
Eighteen months, then the website is yours.
The name in the charter of 958 has outlasted a county borough, a merger, and the departure of the club that borrowed it; All Saints Church is still standing. Complete the minimum term here and the website belongs to you outright.
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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.
Two ways to start around Manor Road.
A professional website, or that website with ongoing SEO from the start. Both lead with the street and the station, because the area name belongs to a football club in search.
£0 upfront website design fee
For trades and services working out of the streets around West Ham station who need to be found by people looking for a business rather than for a fixture list.
- 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 included. The £49.99 is not added on top.
For businesses whose area name is permanently outranked by a club that plays somewhere else, and who need Manor Road and the interchange doing the work instead.
- 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 in E15 as it is anywhere else in the UK. Not sure which fits? Talk to someone first or see the full pricing details.
Two words, a Premier League club in front of them, and Manor Road behind.
Searches carrying only the area name return football. Searches carrying Manor Road, the station or the park return the place. Ongoing SEO is monthly work on three agreed searches like these.
- 01“electrician west ham”
The hardest search in the borough to win on the name alone, which is why the page leans on All Saints Church and West Ham Park instead of the two words a national football club also answers to.
- 02“plumber manor road e15”
Manor Road is the street West Ham station stands on, unambiguous in a way the area name is not, and no football club shares it.
- 03“cleaner near west ham station”
A search made from West Ham station, the interchange where the Jubilee, Hammersmith and City and District lines meet the DLR, which is how most people here describe where they are.
Examples only. The three searches are agreed with you around the work you want more of and what people around Manor Road actually type. Nobody can promise a position, and we don't.
Illustration of a local search results page for “electrician west ham”: 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.
West Ham industries
Trades and services, found by street rather than by area.
An electrician and a maintenance company working around Manor Road both have to be reachable without using the two words that return a football club, which changes how the whole site is written.
How it works
Your part is short.
Choose a plan, tell us about the business, review the draft. We do everything in between, and nothing is published until you approve it.
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Choose your plan
Pick Website or Website + SEO. Your first monthly payment is taken at signup.
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Tell us about the business
A short onboarding in your Client Platform: services, areas, anything you want highlighted, your logo, any photos and the number you want calls to go to.
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Ready to Build
We check we have what we need. If something's missing we'll say exactly what, and work with what you have where we can.
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First draft
You see a working draft of your site, on desktop and phone, and tell us what to change.
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Approve and launch
Reasonable in-scope revisions, then you approve it. Nothing goes live until you say so.
We aim to have your first website draft ready within 5 working days once PrimeStart has everything needed and confirms your project is Ready to Build. Payment alone doesn’t start the clock; missing details, revisions or domain delays can extend it.
You review the draft and request reasonable in-scope changes. If there’s a genuine problem we can’t put right within scope after reasonable attempts, we can cancel the agreement and refund Website subscription payments made, subject to any disclosed non-recoverable third-party costs.
Questions
Questions from West Ham businesses
Straight answers on price, the term, ownership and what SEO does and does not promise.
Do you build websites for businesses in West Ham?
Can we ever rank for our own area name?
Are you connected to West Ham United?
We already have a website we like. Can you just do the SEO?
What does a West Ham business website cost?
How does ongoing SEO work?
Is this the same as the Green Street or Upton Park page?
Nearby
Also working with businesses in Stratford, Plaistow and Canning Town.
The same plans, the same price and the same standard of website around Manor Road, up at Stratford Broadway and across towards Plaistow, Upton Park and Canning Town.
- StratfordWeb design in Stratford →
- Plaistow, NewhamWeb design in Plaistow, Newham →
- Canning TownWeb design in Canning Town →
- Upton ParkWeb design in Upton Park →
- NewhamWeb design in Newham →
- Bromley-by-BowWeb design in Bromley-by-Bow →
Somewhere else? PrimeStart works with businesses across the whole of the UK. Find your area or get in touch.
Ready for a West Ham website that reaches people, not supporters?
A professional website for £49.99 a month, designed, built and looked after by PrimeStart, for the trades and services working around West Ham station and Manor Road, with ongoing SEO ready whenever you want more of the right searches to find you.
18-month Website minimum, £899.82 in total. First monthly payment at signup. Complete the term and the website is yours.
Photograph: Hugh Llewelyn, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons