Vernon web design
Web design in Vernon, by someone who lives here. Custom sites and local SEO for law firms, clinics, trades, and food brands in Vernon, Armstrong, Coldstream, and Enderby.
Local work
Armstrong Spallumcheen Chamber of Commerce
Association. Member directory rebuilt: 116 businesses, each with its own page instead of one long list.
Fresh Valley Farms
Farm and food brand. Certified organic meat sold online. Shop, pre-order pickups, and farm stays on one site.
Nature Delivered
Local food delivery. A page for each of 51 farms, so every product shows who grew it.
The Health Nest Clinic
Health clinic. Multi-practitioner site with a custom booking page that sends each patient to the right schedule.
Wild & Wise by Pam Dhillon
Retreats and wellness. WordPress rebuilt as a fast static site. 54 pages, nine offerings, and booking through Jane.
Amie Roussel Photography
Portrait photographer. Moved off Showit to WordPress. From zero ranking keywords to top three in Vernon photographer searches.
Famous Photos
Dance photography. Moved off WordPress to Pixieset. Parents now view and order photos in one place.
Armstrong and District Garden Club
Nonprofit garden club. WordPress and Divi rebuilt as a fast static site. Every post, newsletter, and agenda came across.
Vernon Performing Arts Festival
Nonprofit arts festival. Moved off Wix with a new brand. Festival info, student results, and donations on one site.
North Okanagan Minor Hockey Association
Nonprofit minor hockey. One home for registration, schedules, and sponsors. Volunteers post the updates themselves.
Home for the Harvest
Our own brand: gardening. Nearly 1,200 gardening articles and a newsletter with more than 16,000 readers.
Mama’s Must Haves
Our own brand: parenting. Moved from WordPress to a fast static site. 218 posts came across and every old address still works.
Select-A-Plant
Our own brand: plant finder. 60,000 plants. Three quick rounds, and it suggests plants that suit your garden.
Why local matters
Your clients search "vernon lawyer" or "armstrong plumber," not "best law firm." A site built here is written for those searches, linked to your Google Business Profile, and checked against the competitors you actually have.
What it costs
Template sites from $2,225. Custom builds from $5,940, and most clients land around $12,000. Hosting & Maintenance from $150 a month. Local SEO setup $2,500. Fixed scope, in writing, before you pay a deposit.
Town by town
Four markets, four different jobs.
The North Okanagan is not one search market. What ranks in Vernon does not rank in Enderby on its own, and a customer two towns over is comparing you to a different set of businesses. Here is how that changes what gets built.
- Vernon
- The biggest market of the four, and the most competitive. Law firms, clinics, dealerships, and trades all fight for the same map results. Winning here takes a page for every service, a Google Business Profile that is filled out properly, and enough page speed that a phone loads it before the visitor gives up.
- Armstrong
- Our home town and our office. A small market where word of mouth still does most of the work, so the site has one job: confirm what somebody already heard about you. Fast, clear, and easy to reach on a phone beats clever every time.
- Enderby
- Small, spread out, and full of businesses that serve customers from three towns over. Service area pages matter more here than a single home page, because people search with a town name attached.
- Coldstream
- Close enough to Vernon that owners assume one page covers both, and far enough that Google does not agree. A separate page for Coldstream picks up searches the Vernon page never sees.
In Armstrong or Spallumcheen? The Armstrong page covers our home town. North of Enderby instead? The Salmon Arm and Shuswap page covers that market, which searches on its own terms.
Local SEO
Found first in Vernon.
Most of a local search result comes down to three things: a Google Business Profile that is complete and correct, a website with a real page for each service and each town, and consistent business details everywhere else on the internet.
The profile gets rebuilt first. Categories, service list, hours, service area, photos, and the description all get set properly, because a half-filled profile loses to a complete one from a smaller competitor. Then the citations get cleaned up, so your name, address, and phone number match everywhere they appear.
Then the pages. A trades company that covers four towns needs four pages, each one written for that town and its customers. Not one page with the town names swapped in. Google has been able to spot that trick for years.
Tracking goes in at the same time, so you can see calls and form fills instead of guessing from rankings. Rankings are a proxy. Calls are the business.
The Health Nest, a clinic in Vernon, needed a page for every practitioner, so patients could find the person by name. Same idea as a page for each town, in a different shape.
What we will not do is buy links, spin articles, or promise a ranking by a date. If someone in this town promises you page one by Christmas, ask them how, and watch what happens next.
Local SEO setup is $2,500 and takes four weeks. Monthly search plans run $950 to $2,500 a month with a six month minimum. See what is in each.
Questions
From business owners around here.
- Do you meet clients in person?
- Yes, by appointment. Our office is in the Armstrong Spallumcheen Chamber of Commerce space at the Odd Fellows Hall, about twenty minutes north of Vernon. Most project work still happens over email and video, because that is what fits around a working day.
- How long before I show up in local search?
- A new Google Business Profile or a rebuilt one usually starts moving in weeks. Ranking a service page against established competitors takes months, which is why every monthly search plan has a six month minimum. Anybody promising page one by a date is guessing.
- Is a Vernon business better off with a local designer?
- For the build, not always. Good work is good work. For local SEO, yes, because knowing the actual competitors and the way people here search saves a lot of guessing.
- What does a local site cost?
- Template sites start at $2,225. Custom builds start at $5,940 and most clients land around $12,000. Local SEO setup is $2,500. Hosting & Maintenance is from $150 a month. Every number is on the pricing page, including payment schedules.
- Do you work outside the North Okanagan?
- Yes. Most of our clients are in western North America, from Vancouver to Revelstoke and south to California. Projects outside the Okanagan run by video call, with the same process and the same prices.
Ready to talk?
A 20 minute call. No pitch. What you need and what it costs.
Or text 778-692-5555 or email hello@acornwebsites.com. We reply within two business days.