Modesto Web Design and SEO,
Built in Our Fresno Office.
Modesto projects run over the phone and a screen share, which makes no difference to the build. If you need someone who can stop by your shop every week, hire a designer in Modesto. For everyone else a template is $649 and a custom build starts at $1,995, with the domain registered to you.
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People find my website. Why don't they call?
By the time someone lands on your site, you already paid for that visit with ad money or with the years it took to earn a referral. These are the three spots where a Modesto site usually loses the call after that, and all three can be fixed from our office in Fresno.
It loads too slowly on a phone
A paid theme with thirty or forty plugins loads code for all of them on every page, so on cell service the visitor backs out before your number draws. We test every build on a mid-range Android over 4G before launch.
It's missing from the map results
The three map results on a 'near me' search come from Google Business Profiles, which Google ranks on relevance, distance and popularity. A website can't put you there without a profile that uses your real Modesto address.
It looks closed
A footer that still says 2019 and stock photos of somebody else's crew read as a business that might not pick up. Twenty phone photos of your own jobs cost nothing and replace the stock shots on the pages where people decide to call.
Do I need a regular website
or an online store?
A regular website explains what you do and gets you a phone call, which is what most service businesses need. A store adds inventory, sales tax and shipping on top of that. Once a catalog passes a few hundred products we'll point you to a Shopify Plus partner, because that work is its own specialty.
Service business websites
Every service you sell gets a page with a price or an honest range next to it, and your number works as a tap-to-call button. A custom build takes 3 to 5 weeks.
- Photos of your real jobs
- Schema with your address and phone
- Forms tested on a phone
Online stores
Product pages and a checkout on Shopify or custom code. Inventory sync, tax tables and shipping rules get quoted separately, so they never hide inside a page count.
- Shopify or a custom build
- Checkout tested on a phone
- Tax and shipping quoted up front
My WordPress site is slow. Do I need a new one?
Often you don't. If the install is current and speed is the only complaint, a cleanup costs less than a rebuild and we'll quote the cleanup first. If it's an abandoned theme carrying forty plugins, every fix has to be re-tested against every plugin, which is how a repair ends up costing more than the $1,995 rebuild.
A paid theme and forty plugins
- Code for every plugin loads on every page
- Menus built for a mouse, then squeezed onto a phone
- A layout other shops in your trade bought too
- A security patch for each plugin, every month
- Yearly renewals on the premium plugins
Hand-coded or lean WordPress
- Only the code each page actually uses
- LCP under 2.5 seconds on a mid-range Android
- Photos of your own jobs in place of stock
- A 301 redirect for every old URL before launch
- Hours and prices you can edit yourself
What Modesto SEO looks like in the first 90 days.
Modesto SEO is two separate jobs. The map results at the top of the page come from your Google Business Profile. The blue links under them come from your website, so working on only one of them leaves half the page to somebody else.
Weeks 1 to 2
Audit, then your Google Business Profile
We pull where you rank today for the Modesto searches in your trade and crawl the site. The profile gets fixed first, starting with its categories and the services it lists, and you keep the audit whether you stay or not.
Weeks 3 to 6
Fixes and the first service pages
Page titles and schema get cleaned up, and the first service pages go live, each one aimed at a search with real volume in Modesto. We don't write copies of one page with the town name swapped, because Google's spam policy calls those doorway pages.
Weeks 7 to 12
Reviews and citations
A review ask your staff will actually send goes live, with no discounts for stars and no asking only the happy customers, since Google's review policy bans both. Your name, address and phone get matched on every directory that lists you, including old listings still showing a number you stopped using.
Every month after
A report and the next target
Rankings, calls and form fills, plus what we did and what comes next. Visible movement usually takes 3 to 4 months, and if a month was slow, the report says so.
Your profile has to use the address where you actually work. Google’s guidelines make a virtual office ineligible for a Business Profile, and a profile built on one can be suspended along with the other listings its owner manages. We don’t have a Modesto office, so we don’t run a Modesto listing for ourselves either.
Local SEO is $595 a month, and Local SEO Lite is $249 a month with hosting, maintenance and baseline optimization on one bill. Both are month to month. If referrals already keep you booked for months, don’t buy SEO from us or anyone else, because it produces calls you have no room to take.
The full list of what’s included is on the local SEO page, and Fresno SEO runs the same process for businesses near our office.
What does website design cost in Modesto?
These are the same numbers we quote on the phone. They’re printed here because a price that only shows up after a forty-minute discovery call can be shaped by how much you seem able to pay.
| What you’re buying | Price | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Template build | $649 once | Up to 5 pages, your branding on a proven layout, mobile, SSL and basic schema. Live in about a week. |
| Custom build | $1,995 and up | Designed and coded for you, with Core Web Vitals work, full schema and Google Business Profile setup. Live in 3 to 5 weeks. |
| Care plan | $99 a month | Content changes on request, uptime and form monitoring, security patches and backups. Cancel any month. |
| Local SEO | $595 a month | Your Google Business Profile, service pages, reviews and citations, with a report every month. Month to month. |
| Local SEO Lite | $249 a month | Hosting, maintenance and baseline optimization on one bill. Month to month. |
There are no contracts on any of it. You own the domain, the hosting account and the code, and we transfer all three on request at no charge. The Fresno web design page covers which of the two builds fits your business. Hosting and the domain run roughly $20 to $30 a month, and you can pay those directly.
Who does the work
Victor Joaquin builds it.
He started building websites at 16 and spent time inside several of the bigger agencies in Fresno before starting his own. The person on your first call is the person who writes the copy and builds the pages.
He did the WordPress build for Fresno State’s news site and trained their staff on it, and he runs workshops for the SBA. Every site on our work page is for a Fresno client, including Full Throttle Suspension, Martin Energy, Benchmark Pool Supply and Tint Headquarters.
"WOW! From day one, Victor made me feel like a close friend. He was quick to communicate and very reasonably priced. The work was done under a tight deadline and he delivered."
Heny Peter
Local Guide
"Victor exceeded my expectations. Some things are automated which is great, and the team was always on top of task reminders and updates. Solid work all around."
Frank J. Kaufmann
Business Owner
"I recently had the pleasure of working with Victor for help with my WordPress website. As an older clinician, I often struggle with technology, but Victor made the entire process seamless and stress-free."
David Johnson
Healthcare Professional
Call before you
hire anyone.
Ask every shop you call who will own the domain when the job is done, and get the answer in writing before you pay a deposit. Our answer is you, and (559) 785-3834 rings at our office in Fresno.
Call (559) 785-3834Remote builds
Modesto projects run over the phone and a screen share, and the build is the same one Fresno clients get.
Prices in writing
$649 for a template, $1,995 and up for custom, and $595 a month for Local SEO.
No lock-in
The domain, hosting account and code are yours, and the transfer is free.
Modesto web design and SEO questions
References
The published rules behind the claims on this page.
- How local results are rankedGoogle Business Profile Help
- Address rules and virtual officesGoogle Business Profile Help
- Review incentives and gatingGoogle Maps content policy
- Doorway pagesGoogle spam policies
- Spanish pages and hreflangGoogle Search Central
- Core Web Vitals thresholdsweb.dev
- PageSpeed InsightsTest any URL yourself
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