Service area · Dartmouth

Web design in Dartmouth, for businesses on this side of the harbour.

Dartmouth searches return a different set of names than Halifax searches do, even for businesses ten minutes apart. If your site says Halifax and you work out of Burnside or off Portland Street, you are competing in the harder market and missing the easier one.

Dartmouth, Burnside and Cole Harbour $800 to build Then $99/mo

In Dartmouth

Dartmouth is its own search market, and that is an advantage.

A great many Dartmouth businesses market themselves as Halifax businesses. It is understandable and it usually costs them the results they would have won at home.

Ten minutes from the studio
Downtown, Burnside, Cole Harbour
Site visits easily arranged

01 Naming Dartmouth wins searches Halifax will notSomebody in Dartmouth searching for a service gets Dartmouth results first. If every page on your site says Halifax, you are invisible for the searches happening closest to you and buried in the ones happening across the water.
02 Burnside businesses are mostly selling to other businessesA trade or supplier working out of Burnside is often being checked by a buyer, a property manager or a general contractor rather than a homeowner. Those visitors want scope, capability and a real contact, and they leave immediately when a site reads like a consumer brochure.
03 Downtown Dartmouth and Portland Street run on foot traffic and reputationFor a shop, a restaurant or a studio here, the website is mostly answering hours, menu, parking and whether it is worth the trip. Those four answers should be visible without scrolling.
04 The bridge is a real objection to overcomeCustomers weigh a crossing. Saying plainly that you cover both sides, or that you come to them, removes a hesitation that otherwise happens silently and ends the visit.
05 Cole Harbour and Eastern Passage are separate searches againThey are close enough to serve and far enough that people search them by name. If you cover them, they are worth a real page each rather than a line in a list.
What we do here

Everything we build for Dartmouth businesses.

Seven services, quoted in full before the work starts. Websites are $800 to build and $99 a month to run. Audits, repairs and profile setups are one-time work on sites we did not build.

Recent work

Recent sites for businesses around the harbour.

Small businesses with the same problem to solve: be found, look credible in the first five seconds, and make getting in touch the easiest thing on the page.

Average rating on Google
1–2 weeks
From scope to launch
100%
Hand-built, no templates
Also covered

The rest of the area.

Halifax Regional Municipality is small enough to drive across and big enough that a search in one town returns a different set of businesses than the next. We build for all of it.

Outside these four? The Nova Scotia page covers the rest of the province, and we build right across Atlantic Canada as well, with most of the work happening by phone and email regardless. Tell us where you are.

Working in a trade? There are pages for HVAC, plumbing, electrical, landscaping and general contracting, each with the Lead Machine estimator built in.

Questions

Common questions from Dartmouth business owners.

The ones that come up when a business is deciding whether to market itself as Dartmouth or Halifax.

Don't see your question?

Call (902) 225-5280 hello@alpwebstudio.com
Q.01

Should my site say Dartmouth or Halifax?

Both, in the right places. Name Dartmouth on the pages about the work you do here, because those are the searches happening closest to you and the ones with the least competition. Say plainly elsewhere that you cover the whole region so nobody rules you out over the bridge.

Q.02

Do you build websites for Burnside businesses?

Yes, and they usually need a different shape from a consumer site. Buyers, property managers and general contractors want scope, capability and a named contact rather than lifestyle photography, so the site is built to answer those first.

Q.03

Will customers in Halifax still find me if I target Dartmouth?

Yes. Naming Dartmouth on your service pages does not remove you from Halifax results, it adds the searches you were previously losing. What costs you visibility is a site that names neither and hopes for the best.

Q.04

Do you cover Cole Harbour and Eastern Passage as well?

Yes. If those are genuine parts of your service area they are worth a real page each rather than a line in a list, because people search them by name and a page with something specific to say about the area will outrank a mention.

Ready when you are

Want your Dartmouth business found in Dartmouth searches?

Send us your business name and the towns you actually cover. We will tell you which searches you are currently invisible for and what it would take to fix that.

Most enquiries get a reply the same day, usually within a couple of hours.