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Custom web design, SEO and ongoing website management for Five Dock businesses. Built for a Great North Road strip where trade walks past the window.
These guys always go the extra mile and get the needs of small business. They have done 3 websites for us now.
– Justin Chisholm
Why it matters here
Five Dock trades on Great North Road. Italian delis and pasticcerie, cafes, barbers, small retail, dentists and allied health above the shops, and the trades servicing the streets running down to the water. A lot of it is genuinely local and has been for generations.
That heritage is an asset and a trap. It means people know you, and it also means the website has often been left alone for years while the business changed. When a new resident searches, that old site is all they have to judge you on.
Our website design work here is built for that new arrival. Fast on a phone, honest photographs of the place and the product, hours that are actually right, and an obvious way to order or book.
The second job here is the destination search. Five Dock pulls people in from across the Inner West for specific things, and that visitor is planning rather than passing. They want the product range, a price sense, parking and how far it is, which is different information to what the regular needs.
Long standing Five Dock businesses also lose trade to something small and fixable. A public holiday closure that never went up, a product line dropped two years ago still listed, a phone number from the old shop. Twenty minutes of accuracy beats a redesign, and we will tell you if that is all you need.
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What is included
Priced on what the business actually needs. For hospitality and visitor businesses that usually means fewer pages, faster, with booking front and centre. Custom website design, web development, photography direction and ongoing support in one place.
A Five Dock customer is often standing on the footpath or sitting in a car outside, deciding now. Photos that look like the real shop, prices where people expect them, and nothing between wanting and ordering. Responsive websites first, desktop second, because the desktop visit rarely happens.
Set up for the searches that happen within a few hundred metres of you, plus the planning searches people make before they arrive. Local optimisation for both, because they are very different intents.
WordPress so hours, menus and specials can be changed from a phone in two minutes. Responsive websites as standard, your brand identity applied across the site, and WooCommerce or Shopify behind it if you sell online as well as in person.
Your options
Not every job is a rebuild. Sometimes the site is fine and the booking path is the problem. Sometimes the photos are doing the damage. We scope to whatever is actually losing you the sale, measured against your business goals.
Fast on a phone, honest about hours, obvious about ordering or booking, and photographed so the shop looks like itself rather than a stock library. Tailored to your trading week, and usually the centre of the whole online presence.
Built for the visitor researching a week out as well as the one outside now: what to expect, how to get there, what it costs and what else is nearby. E-commerce added where you sell gift cards, tickets or product.
A decade of client work
Local, not "servicing the area"
Our office is in Quakers Hill. Five Dock is a clean run in along the M4 rather than a cross city trek.
So we will come to the shop during a quiet hour, look at the room and the product, and photograph it properly, because for a retail or food business that material is most of the website. If you would rather come to us, there is a big screen and we will work through it together.
The ranking side does not care where we are based. Structure, speed, schema and reviews decide it, and we compete in far tighter local searches than this one every week.
Being from elsewhere means we ask rather than assume. Which days carry the week, whether the money is in the regulars or the people travelling in, and what you would rather sell more of. The page structure follows those answers.
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Send us your site. We will show you what comes up above you on a phone, name the specific things those pages do differently, and be honest about whether a rebuild is the right spend.
Straight answers
What hospitality and visitor businesses ask us first, answered without the sales pitch.
It depends on scale and how much photography is needed. Good images cost real money here and are worth it. We scope it and give you one fixed quote before anything starts.
Four to six weeks, and the photography is usually what sets the pace. We plan the shoot around your quiet periods rather than fighting service.
Yes, and locally it is very winnable. Being the obvious answer within a few kilometres matters more than city wide rankings. No promises of position one.
No. Plenty of our clients we have never met in person and their sites are no worse for it. For a shop we do like one visit, because the photographs are usually what has been holding the site back.
Nearby
We work across the Inner West and the rest of Sydney. These are the closest to Five Dock.
Three quick steps, under a minute. We come back to you with straight answers, clear pricing and a plan you can keep whether you go ahead or not.
Bring the product, the photos and whatever the site is now. We will map the pages, show you a homepage direction and keep working it until it looks like your shop rather than a template.
One fixed quote, agreed before we start. Rated 5.0 from 100+ Google reviews.
