Local Business Site
Restaurants, salons, medical, trades. Fast, structured, and optimised for "near me" searches in your city.
From $1,800 · One-time
Why Plain Wins
We started Steady Digital after watching good business owners get sold $15,000 websites that couldn't be found on Google. They looked incredible. They loaded in 11 seconds. They had zero meta descriptions. They used JavaScript to inject the only text on the page.
Google doesn't care how many awards your designer won. Google cares about a <h1> tag, a sitemap, a page that loads in under a second, and navigation links that actually go somewhere.
We build plain, fast, structured websites. They're not going to impress anyone at first glance. But our clients are consistently on page 1 within 90 days — and most of them have cancelled their Google Ads.
Our Story
What Google Actually Measures
Page speed (Core Web Vitals), crawlable HTML text, heading hierarchy, meta tags, structured data (JSON-LD), mobile-friendly design, HTTPS, descriptive alt text on images, internal linking, canonical URLs, and a sitemap. None of these require animations.
What Google Ignores
Parallax effects. Custom cursors. Animated text reveals. JavaScript-rendered content. Glassmorphism. Five typeface families. Full-screen video backgrounds. All of it. Invisible to the crawler.
💰 The 3-Year Math
The Pretty Site Costs You
$0
Over 3 years in monthly fees, developer fixes, and Google Ads spend — just to compensate for bad SEO. Our sites cost a fraction of that. One time.
Get a Free Comparison AuditSide by Side: The Real Numbers
This is the conversation we have in every first meeting. By the end, the math always wins.
| Factor | 💅 The Fancy Agency | 💛 Steady Digital |
|---|---|---|
| Build cost | $12,000–$22,000 | $1,800–$4,500 |
| Monthly hosting | $80–$150/mo | $0 (Cloudflare Pages) |
| Plugin licenses | $80–$200/mo | $0 (none needed) |
| Page load speed | 4–12 seconds | 0.6–1.2 seconds |
| Lighthouse SEO score | 14–35 / 100 | 95–100 / 100 |
| Google ranking (90 days) | Page 4–7 | Page 1–2 |
| Organic traffic (yr 1) | Near zero | 1,000–5,000/mo |
| Ad spend needed | $500–$2,000/mo | $0 (organic covers it) |
| HTML semantic structure | ❌ Div soup | ✓ Full H1→H3 hierarchy |
| Structured data (JSON-LD) | ❌ None | ✓ LocalBusiness + Breadcrumb |
| Crawlable text content | ❌ JS-injected | ✓ In the HTML |
| Alt text on images | ❌ Empty or missing | ✓ Descriptive, keyword-aware |
| 3-year total cost | $68,000–$100,000+ | $1,800–$4,500 (one-time) |
What We Build
Every project ships with a Lighthouse score over 90, full JSON-LD schema, and a 90-day ranking guarantee. No monthly fees. No retainers. No surprises.
E-Commerce Store
Product schema, fast load times, clean checkout. Built on Shopify or custom — your call.
From $3,200 · One-time
SEO Recovery Rebuild
Already have a pretty site that doesn't rank? We rebuild the structure without touching the design.
From $1,200 · One-time
What Clients Say After Switching
★★★★★
"I spent $14,000 on a website that my previous agency called 'award-worthy.' I was on page 6. Steady rebuilt it in three weeks and I cancelled my $1,400/month ad budget four months later."
📈 Page 6 → Page 1 in 67 days
★★★★★
"Nobody told me my $18k website had no H1 tag on the homepage. Steady ran a free audit and showed me in ten minutes. The rebuild was $2,200. I've never run a paid ad since."
📈 $0 ad spend · 3,800 organic visitors/mo
★★★★★
"The new site isn't flashy. I won't pretend it's as pretty as the old one. But it loads in 0.8 seconds and I'm booked out six weeks in advance entirely from organic search."
📈 Fully booked from organic · No ads needed
★★★★★
"Steady showed me what Google actually sees when it crawls my old site. It was an empty white page. Everything was JavaScript. I had no idea. The rebuild changed everything."
📈 First page for 14 target keywords
Ready to Stop Paying for Traffic You Should Own?
A free site audit takes 15 minutes. We'll show you exactly what Google sees when it crawls your current site — and what it would take to fix it.
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