Gold Coast Web Design for Small Business

Plenty of small business websites on the Gold Coast were built once and left alone. They crawl on a phone, they don't come up when locals search, and the owner won't touch them in case something breaks. Every month they stay that way, the enquiries go to the business down the road.

Gold Coast Web Solutions builds small business websites that avoid all of that from day one: quick to load, easy to use on a phone, simple for you to update, and structured so Google understands what you do and where you do it. You deal with one senior developer with 23 years' experience, from the first call to launch day.

What every website we build includes

• Phone first - most people find a local business on their phone, often in a car park or on a job site, so we design the mobile layout before the desktop one.
• SEO in the structure - clean headings, a page for each service, fast load times and the technical setup Google expects, so the site can rank rather than just exist.
• Made to get enquiries - tap-to-call buttons, short forms that actually reach your inbox, and a clear next step on every page.
• WordPress you can run yourself - change prices, photos and wording without ringing anyone. You get a recorded walkthrough to come back to.
• Yours outright - the admin login, files, domain and hosting all sit in your name. Nothing is held back if you move on.
• Speed checked before handover - we aim for a mobile Google PageSpeed score of 80 or better before the site goes live.

Websites for Gold Coast tradies

Trades and service businesses are a big part of our focus: the electrician working out of the Lawrence Drive estate at Nerang, the fabricator in Molendinar, the business in the Burleigh Heads industrial precinct, or the plumber running a ute around the new estates in Coomera and Pimpama. A tradie website has a simple job. Show the work, list the services and suburbs you cover, and make calling you the easiest thing on the page. We build it that way and set it up to work hand in hand with your Google Business Profile.

The same thinking suits clinics around the Southport health precinct and Robina, and hospitality and tourism businesses in Surfers Paradise and Broadbeach, where most visitors make up their mind on a small screen.

Live in 1-2 weeks from go-ahead

1. Strategy call - free. We talk through who your customers are, where they search from and what the site needs to do.
2. Fixed quote and scope - a from-price and a list of pages in writing. No extras turn up later.
3. Design and build - the key pages come to you for review, with two rounds of changes included.
4. Launch and handover - we go live, hand you every login, and show you how to make your own updates.

How much does a website cost on the Gold Coast?

Gold Coast website prices run wide. At the cheap end, one-page and small template sites are advertised from a few hundred dollars up to about $995. That usually means a cap on pages, a fee for each extra one, and no strategy or SEO work behind the build. Local cost guides put a properly built five to eight page small business site in the several-thousand-dollar range.

Our small business websites start at $1,500, with a fixed quote before any work begins. The difference buys a site planned around how your customers search, built by the person you spoke to, with the SEO groundwork done on launch day. Larger sites with more pages, online bookings or e-commerce are scoped on a call. Every price is on our pricing page, and care plans to keep the site updated and backed up start at $79/month.

Once the site is live, local SEO and the Google Maps Package help people find it. We build for businesses across the Gold Coast, including Southport, Robina, Nerang and Coomera.