Web design and SEO for businesses in Nelson
The sunshine city of arts, seafood and Tasman Bay. Customers in Nelson search before they ring, and the results settle who gets that call long before anyone compares two businesses side by side.
Our sites are built for search rather than for a portfolio shot — structured for how people around Nelson really look for a business, then improved month after month. From $299 a month in USD, no setup fee and no contract.
Getting found in Nelson: the honest version
In a main centre the competition is not only the business down the road. It is national brands and agency-managed sites with years of accumulated work behind them.
Getting past that takes depth rather than spending: a real page for each service you offer and each part of Nelson you actually cover, loading quickly on a phone, with reviews arriving steadily instead of in one implausible burst. Ten focused pages beat one clever homepage nearly every time. That is how we structure the build, and why the work continues monthly rather than ending at launch.
We searched for a web designer in Nelson in August 2026 and the top three ordinary listings were all local businesses. In most towns we have measured that is not the case. Read it as a warning rather than a comfort: a market where people are already working on their search presence is one where standing still costs you.
Working with a remote studio
The studio runs on Indonesian hours, and a New Zealand afternoon lands on our working morning — so a question sent from Nelson after lunch generally gets an answer the same day. Beyond that there is nothing unusual about it: published prices, a site live in 10 business days, and a monthly report carrying the before-and-after HTML for everything that changed.
- 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 Nelson, without waiting on a quote
A business in Nelson has three real options. Builder software is cheaper because you do the building, the writing and the search work yourself. A one-off build costs more up front and then leaves the upkeep with you. The third is a monthly price with the work inside it — ours, at $299 a month in USD, no setup fee and no lock-in.
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 have a site nobody finds?
Start with the SEO Audit rather than a rebuild. $490, five business days, and you get the raw HTML Googlebot really receives from your site alongside a prioritized fix plan — usable by any developer, including one who isn't us. Start a plan within 30 days and the $490 returns as a credit 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:
film production company · paving contractor · accounting firm
Frequently asked questions
Do you buy backlinks?
No. We do not buy links and we will not pretend the ones we earn arrived faster than they did. It is listed openly as not included, alongside ads management and online shops — naming the exclusions is what makes a published price believable.
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 Nelson?
No — we cover Nelson and the rest of New Zealand, and the towns around Nelson 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.
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.
What does a website cost for a business in Nelson?
The same as anywhere, because every price is published: from $299 a month, all included — domain, hosting, copywriting, ongoing SEO. No setup fee, cancel any month.