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    Website Development

    for local service businesses in Vancouver WA and Portland OR

    The engineering half of a site: code, forms, speed, tracking, and hosting that hold up when twenty people land on the same page at once.

    From $1,897

    My site looks fine but nobody ever gets my form submissions. What is going on?

    Usually the form still posts to an address that stopped working, or a spam filter eats it, or a plugin update broke the handler and nobody checked. A working build sends every submission two places, logs it, and fires a confirmation you can see. If nothing arrives, you find out that day instead of next quarter.

    What this actually includes

    Website development turns an approved design or an existing page set into templates, tested forms, tap-to-call links, and hosting built to stay online when many visitors land on one page at the same time.

    This is build work, not layout work. We take an agreed design or an existing set of pages and turn it into something that loads fast and does not break. Templates are written once and reused, so a phone number change happens in one file instead of forty pages.

    Forms get rebuilt to send to two destinations, log every entry, and show the visitor a real confirmation. Tap-to-call links are wired on every phone number. Call tracking, if you use it, is installed so the number swaps for ad traffic without changing the number the rest of your record carries.

    We cut the plugin pile. Anything doing a job you can do in ten lines of code gets removed, because each add-on is another thing that updates itself at 2 a.m. and takes the contact page with it. Images get compressed and sized. Scripts get deferred. The site gets tested on an actual phone over cell data.

    Then hosting, backups, SSL, and redirects. Old URLs point at their replacements so nothing you already earned gets thrown away. You own your domain, and this build is included in CitedLocal Visibility at $997 a month with no setup fee.

    Who this is for

    This fits owners who already know what their site should say but have no one to build it right, including sites built from flat designer files or ones running slow on an old template nobody maintains.

    Content and copy are not the gap here. The build is. Maybe a designer handed you flat files. Maybe a template site is slow, and your last developer stopped answering email. Maybe a designer handed you flat files. Maybe a template site is slow, and your last developer stopped answering email.

    Electrical contractors and roofing companies with several crews use this most. They already have real content and photos, and their problem is a site that takes nine seconds to load on a job-site phone.

    This is not design. If you need the look, the page list, and the copy decided, start at Local Business Website Design or hire a designer first and bring us the files. We will tell you plainly on the call which of the two you actually need.

    How it works

    A scope call fixes the template count, the forms, and the page list before any code is written. The build then happens on a staging copy, so nothing changes publicly until you sign off on what you see there.

    Every rebuild starts with a look at what already exists. The free audit establishes current Google Maps and AI visibility, delivered in about 10 minutes.

    Next comes a scope call. We list every template, every form, and every integration, then agree on what gets built and what gets deleted.

    Build happens on a staging copy so your live site keeps running while the new one is put together, page by page, in front of you. You click through the staging link and mark anything wrong. Launch happens with redirects in place and tracking checked the same hour. After launch you get the repository, the hosting login, and a short written record of how the thing is put together, so the next person can pick it up without calling us.

    Serving Vancouver, Portland, and the Pacific Northwest

    Crews working Orchards, Minnehaha, Camas, and the rest of the service area spend their day on phones, so builds here are judged on cell-connection load times, not a desktop score nobody in the field ever sees.

    We build for owners in Vancouver WA and Portland OR, plus Camas, Washougal, Orchards, Hazel Dell, Minnehaha, Cascade Park, Ogden, Forest Ridge, Meadow Homes, Vancouver Heights, Evergreen Highlands, and Ellsworth Springs. Crews working Orchards and Minnehaha are on phones all day, so mobile speed is the number that matters, not a desktop score. Operating since 2012 from Vancouver, WA 98664. Parent category: Website Design.

    Want the wider picture first? Start with the Website Design. You can also see the full picture from our marketing agency in Vancouver WA overview.

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    The free audit checks whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode name your business, and where your listing data disagrees with itself. No card, no contract, and you keep the findings either way.

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    Start free, work through the fixes yourself, or have us handle the work. Paid plans include monthly reporting. No contracts. Cancel anytime.

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    Self-Serve

    Monthly Audit

    $29/month

    Full Four-Pillar audit with RPM-structured action plan. Monthly rechecks included. Self-serve—you make the fixes.

    • Full Four-Pillar audit — GBP, AI Visibility, Citations, and Website Match
    • Plain-English fix guidance for every pillar, ranked by impact
    • Website Match rechecked up to 4×/month
    • GBP and AI Visibility rescanned monthly
    • Self-serve — no managed work included

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    $997/month

    One location

    Get found by AI.

    Website, profile, listings, and tracking.

    • Google Business Profile managed daily — categories, services, attributes, posts, offers, and images
    • Monthly Four-Pillar visibility report
    • Website Match included — up to 4 scans per month
    • Website Build included — homepage and core pages in month 1, service and location pages in months 2–3
    • Website schema matched to your Google Business Profile
    • Automated review replies, requests, backup, and alerts
    • 40+ directories, built in your name — yours to keep.
    • Monthly geo-grid heatmap with before-and-after comparison
    • Up to 10 keywords tracked
    • Automated progress updates, GBP change alerts, review reminders, and monthly reports
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    Scope: profile, website, listings, and tracking. Link building is not included — that's Dominance.

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    $2,500 one-time onboarding · covers 1-3 locations

    First month included. 4+ locations: custom quote.

    Cover your metro.

    Visibility, scaled for multi-location and regional operators.

    Visibility gets one business found. Dominance covers a metro.

    Today you pay $2,500 — your one-time onboarding for 1-3 locations. Non-refundable.

    Your first month of management is included

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    We do all the work — you answer the phones.

    • Everything in Visibility — all four pillars, daily GBP management, Website Build, and monthly reporting
    • Multi-location reporting with a visibility score for each location
    • Competitive visibility analysis across your metro
    • Monthly listings check with corrections submitted where data has drifted
    • TrustLinks added monthly — new local and social directory listings placed in your name, never bought
    • Priority support (24-hour response)
    • Up to 5 service areas for each location
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    Pricing includes your CitedLocal account, visibility reporting, and the work listed in your plan. No hidden fees. No contract.