Your Amherst business deserves a site that ranks
The border town on the Tantramar marshes. Amherst sits in the range where local SEO repays effort fastest: real search volume, and competitors who have mostly skipped the technical work entirely.
Our sites are built for search rather than for a portfolio shot — structured for how people around Amherst really look for a business, then improved month after month. From $299 a month in USD, no setup fee and no contract.
What it takes to get found in Amherst
Amherst is the size where local SEO pays back quickest. There is enough search volume for rankings to become real enquiries, and usually few enough well-optimised competitors that a clean, properly structured site can reach the first page in months rather than years.
The work is unglamorous — fast pages, one real page per service instead of a single catch-all, correct local markup, and steady improvement afterwards. That same discipline is what holds the position when a competitor finally decides to take their own site seriously.
One piece of evidence rather than a claim. In August 2026 we ran the search a customer would run — a web designer in Amherst — and looked at what came back: not one of the top three ordinary results, the listings below the map, was a studio based in the town. Most were firms based somewhere else, running one page per town. Your trade's results will look nothing like ours, but they are just as checkable, and almost nobody checks.
Working with a remote studio
We don't have an office in Amherst, and we would rather say so in the first paragraph than have you discover it three emails in. JustMarket.Me is a remote studio working with businesses across Canada: calls and video meetings, a site live in 10 business days, and every improvement proven by a fresh crawl. Every price is published before you ever speak to us.
- Free 20-minute call — you tell us what your business does and for whom; we tell you honestly whether we fit. No proposal theater.
- Every price is published — $299, $599 or $1,199 a month in USD, no setup fee, cancel any month.
- Live in 10 business days from kick-off, or your first month is free — that promise is in writing.
- Improved every month — new pages and ongoing SEO, with every fix verified by an independent re-crawl.
The cost of a website in Amherst, without a proposal
Most website quotes in Amherst arrive as a project fee after a discovery call, and the ongoing work is rarely in the figure at all. We went the other way and published one: $299 a month in USD with the build, the hosting, the copy and the monthly SEO inside it, no setup fee, cancel in any month.
Pay yearly and get two months free. Cancel any time and we refund the unused months pro rata — the annual plan is a discount, not a lock-in.
- 5-page SEO-first website — domain, hosting and SSL included
- 1 location page for your service area
- Automated blog — 2 SEO-optimised articles published each month
- Custom AI-powered CRM in the backend
- Ongoing SEO optimisation, connected to the JustMarket.Me SEO aggregator
- GEO optimisation for AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity)
- Google Business Profile set up and connected to your site
- Monthly report — the before-and-after HTML for every fix we shipped
- Unlimited change requests, one in the queue at a time
Already trading in Amherst with a site that doesn't rank?
Then the honest first step is the SEO Audit — $490, delivered in five business days, every finding quoted with the evidence and a fix plan in priority order. We fetch your site the way Googlebot receives it and show you what is actually holding it back in Amherst and the wider Nova Scotia market. Start a plan within 30 days and the fee is credited in full across your first three months.
Building for a specific trade?
Every plan costs the same whatever your business does, but the details differ by industry. These guides go a level deeper:
rental property management · bridal shop · home inspector
Frequently asked questions
Will the site work properly on phones?
Yes, and it is not an afterthought. Most local searches happen on a phone and Google judges the site by its mobile version. Mobile speed is measured before and after every change and appears in your monthly report.
Do you only work with businesses inside Amherst?
No — we cover Nova Scotia and the rest of Canada, and the communities around Amherst are ones we build for regularly. If your customers come from several towns, we build the site to reach all of them rather than only the one you are registered in.
Do I have to write the content?
No, we write all the copy. You send your logo, any photos you have (or we use professional stock images) and the basic facts about the business — that is the whole input needed from you.
Who owns the website and the data?
You do. The domain is in your name from day one, and the content, the Search Console property and the Analytics account are yours rather than ours. Nothing about leaving requires our cooperation.
Can I update the site myself afterwards?
Yes. You get a simple editor for text, images, prices and opening hours, so you are never waiting on us for a small change. Anything larger, send it over and it is covered by the plan.