Web design in Surrey.

One fee, and the site stays run

The monthly fee is the whole arrangement. It pays for the build, then for everything that usually gets left behind once a build is invoiced: hosting on Cloudflare, the domain and SSL, every edit you ask for, the Google Business Profile, and the on-page SEO. The services page sets it out line by line. There is no separate maintenance retainer and no invoice per change.

We work this way because of what happens under the usual model. A Surrey trades firm or shop pays a few thousand pounds for a build, the designer moves on, and three years later the site still shows a price list from launch day because changing it costs a phone call, a quote and a wait. Folding the upkeep into the price is the only structure where the site staying accurate is our job rather than a favour you have to keep asking for.

What a small business site in Surrey has to do is not complicated. Load quickly on a phone. Say plainly what you do and which towns you take work in. Turn interest into an enquiry in one tap. Stay truthful when your prices, your hours or your services move. The rest is presentation, and presentation comes second.

Local search in Surrey happens town by town

Almost nobody hires a plumber, a landscaper or an accountant for the county. They hire one for their town, and they search that way: the service word plus Epsom, plus Woking, plus Redhill. Google leans on the searcher's location too, so a search made in Guildford and the same search made in Oxted, at opposite ends of the county, return different maps and often different pages. A single page that lists every Surrey town in one paragraph competes in none of those contests.

That is why this page is a hub rather than the whole story. Each of the twelve towns below has its own page, written about that town, and this page exists to join them up and to answer the county-wide question honestly. It is also why we will not mass-produce town pages for a client. Google's spam policies name that pattern, doorway pages, and sites get buried for it. Where you genuinely work in a town and there is something true to say, a page earns its place. Where there is not, we say no. How we approach local search covers the method.

The other half of every local result is the map block, which is ranked from Google Business Profiles rather than from websites. For a service business covering several towns from one base, the profile is often the bigger lever, and running it well is unglamorous work: honest categories, accurate hours, real photographs through the year, every review answered. That work is included in the fee, not sold as an add-on.

The twelve Surrey towns we cover in depth

Surrey sits directly south of London, with the M25 crossing the county and the North Downs running through the middle of it. Working across it, we group the towns into four corners. West Surrey holds Guildford and Woking, the county's two biggest centres. North Surrey means the Elmbridge towns of Esher, Cobham and Weybridge, closest in to London. Mid Surrey is Epsom, Leatherhead and Dorking, which sit in a line down the A24. East Surrey, the corner nearest our own base, is Reigate, Redhill, Caterham and Oxted. We write pages for towns outside the county too, such as Winchester in Hampshire. Each name below goes to that town's own page.

A worked Surrey example: Sameday Jetwash in Reigate

Sameday Jetwash is a one-van pressure-washing business working out of Reigate, taking driveway and patio jobs across Surrey and the bordering edges of Sussex and Kent. It is a business we run ourselves, not an arm's-length paying client, and we say that plainly. The old site was a WordPress build from 2021: eight seconds to first paint on a 4G phone, the contact form three scrolls down an inner page, the phone number trapped in a footer image nobody could tap, and a single "areas we cover" paragraph doing the work of the town pages that did not exist.

We rebuilt it in five working days. One page per service, one page per town the business actually serves, a single contact form that emails enquiries straight in, static hosting on an edge network, and the Google Business Profile claimed and brought up to date alongside the launch. The site runs on the Growth plan. Because the business is ours, we publish its unedited Search Console data: clicks grew from 125 to 9,126 in 90 days, most of that from two hosepipe-ban guides riding the Surrey hosepipe ban; excluding the hosepipe guides entirely, the rest of the site grew from 125 clicks to 703 clicks. The full case study is here, spike and all.

The second Surrey site is a client rather than our own business. Dirty South Power Wash cleans driveways, patios, roofs, gutters and solar panels from a base in Horley, working across Surrey and into Sussex. Its nine-page builder site became 90 static pages on 3 August 2026, and we moved the domain and all eleven Microsoft 365 email records without breaking the mail. The Dirty South Power Wash case study publishes month one exactly as Search Console records it: 10,854 impressions, weekly impressions up from 2,612 to 6,157, and 13 clicks, because 91.8 per cent of those impressions are still at position 21 or worse. It is deliberately an early write-up, and it is the honest shape of the first four weeks.

The shape of that job transfers to most of the county. A large share of Surrey's small firms are exactly this: one or two people, a van or a small premises, customers who search by town on a phone and ring one of the first results they trust. The mechanics of serving them are the same whether the trade is pressure washing in Reigate, landscaping around Dorking or electrical work in Woking. The towns change, the photographs change, the mechanics do not.

What it costs

Three tiers, all published, none of them "from". No discovery call stands between you and a number, and a business in Weybridge pays what a business in Caterham pays.

Setup is £0 on every tier. Paying a year up front takes 10% off. After the first month it rolls monthly and you can cancel at any point. If inside the first 30 days it is not what you asked for, every month you have paid comes back and the domain stays yours. The pricing page has the full breakdown of each tier.

If you are comparing this with paying once for a build, we have published the working: what a small business website costs in the UK in 2026 and the five-year arithmetic of pay-monthly against one-off. Both pieces admit the cases where a one-off build is the better buy, because there are some.

What we do not do

• E-commerce checkouts. Serious online selling belongs on Shopify.
• Paid advertising. That is a media buyer's job, and only once the site converts.
• Logo and brand identity work. Hire a brand designer or an illustrator.
• Video production. Hire a videographer.
• Social media management. Run your accounts, or pay someone whose whole job it is.

Declining those five is what keeps the entry price at £49 a month. Any outfit offering the lot for a small monthly fee is skimming all of it.

After launch

Changes are an email in plain English. No CMS login, no ticket queue, no per-edit bill. On Essentials a change lands in about two working days, on Growth the next working day, on Pro the same working day. A price rise, a new service, revised hours, photographs from last week's job: all of it is just an email. Once a quarter we audit the site properly for speed, accessibility, broken links and anything Google has flagged, and on Growth and Pro we also write content every month. The test we hold ourselves to is that two years in, the site still tells the truth about the business.