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A web design and local SEO agency based in North Shields, working with businesses across the North East and further afield.
Building websites, long before it was a side hustle.
Designed, built and launched across the North East.
Across 108 reviews, every one of them five stars.
Agreed in writing before any work starts.
We design and build websites for businesses across the North East, and we do the SEO work that gets them found. NE1 Web Design & SEO started in 2018 and has built more than 260 sites for trades, clinics, shops, studios and professional businesses.
The same person scopes the job, designs it, builds it, launches it and answers the phone two years later when you want a page adding.
We work out of the North Tyneside Business Centre on Saville Street in North Shields. Most of our work still arrives by word of mouth, and clients we built for in 2019 are still with us today.
Most people come to us for a website and stay for everything that follows: hosting, updates, content and the monthly SEO that keeps the enquiries coming. That is how the business has grown, and it is why we only build sites we would be happy to look after for years.
Suite 2.6a, North Tyneside Business Centre, 54a Saville Street, North Shields, NE30 1NT
Six things that have not changed since the first site we built, and will not.
Every call, every email, every change goes to the person doing the work. No account manager relaying messages to someone you have never met, and no handovers between departments.
You get the page list, the timeline and the cost before you commit a penny. No vague estimates, no surprise invoices halfway through.
The domain, the hosting, the content and the site itself are yours. No lock in contracts and nothing held back if you ever decide to move elsewhere.
If a new website is not what your business needs right now, we will tell you and point you at what would help more. We would rather lose a job than sell you the wrong thing.
Hosting, security, backups, updates and content changes handled for you on a care plan from £69 a month. Most clients would rather not touch their website, and they do not have to.
Based in North Shields, working with North East businesses, and part of the business community here rather than just selling into it.
Mostly owner run businesses between one and thirty staff, where the person we speak to is the person whose money it is. After 260 builds, these are the sectors we know best.
Plumbers, electricians, roofers, joiners, builders and preservation specialists. Sites built to get the phone ringing from local searches.
Aesthetics, therapy, salons and treatment rooms, where the site has to build confidence long before anyone books.
Studios, gyms, pubs, venues and visitor attractions, with timetables, menus and booking that work on a phone.
Independent shops and online stores on Shopify and WooCommerce, including migrations from platforms that outgrew them.
Surveyors, consultants, advisers and training providers, where credibility has to be established before the first meeting.
A fair share of our work is someone's very first website. It is usually the most enjoyable job on the list.
Being part of the local business community is not marketing for us. It is where we have learned most of what we know about how small businesses actually run.
Everything here is handled in house. Nothing is outsourced.
New builds, redesigns and e-commerce. Mobile first, fixed price, and live in as little as 10 days.
Monthly work to get you into the Google Map Pack and the local results that bring the phone calls. From £397 a month.
Keyword strategy, technical fixes and content that earns rankings rather than renting them.
Setup, optimisation and ongoing posts, so you stand out where people are actually looking.
Stores, custom themes and platform migrations. Official Shopify Partners.
Hosting, security, daily backups, updates and priority support. From £69 a month.
Not sure which you need? That is what the first call is for. Start with a free SEO health check.
A small sample of the 260 or so we have built.
A premium site for a multi award winning clinic, built around treatment enquiries and clear service pricing.
A calm, fast loading site for a coastal studio, with class timetables and straightforward online booking.
A website for family run worktop specialists in North Shields, with a project gallery that drives quote requests.
"As a new start up I approached multiple designers for my website. From the off Michael stood out. Great pricing, great communication and service."
"He took the time to properly understand my business and what I wanted the website to achieve. He did not just do what I asked, he suggested things I had not even thought of."
"I have worked with several web designers over the years and it is a relief to work with someone so professional and personable."
Usually on the first call, so here they are up front.
Michael James, who heads up every project from the first call through to launch and support. When a job needs a specialist, photography or video for instance, we bring in people we have worked with for years, but the website itself stays in house from start to finish.
Care plan clients are covered by monitoring and backups that run around the clock whether anyone is at a desk or not. For anything urgent you have a direct mobile number rather than a ticket queue. In twenty years we have not left a client stranded.
Yes. Most clients are within half an hour of North Shields, but we build for businesses across the UK and further afield. Everything runs on calls and a shared staging link, and plenty of local clients never visit the office either.
Of course. We are at the North Tyneside Business Centre in North Shields, Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and we are happy to come to you if you are local.
Then we will not spend an hour trying to talk you out of them. If you want a second opinion on your site or your rankings, the free health check is no obligation.
Yes, and it happens more often than you would think. Sometimes the site is fine and the problem is the Google Business Profile, or the content, or nothing at all. We would rather be honest than take the job.
We are based at North Tyneside Business Centre on Saville Street in North Shields, and we work with businesses right across the North East and further afield. Call in for a coffee if you are passing, or have a read of what our clients have said about us on Google.
Tell us what you are planning and we will come back within one working day with honest advice and a guide price. No tech speak, no sales pitch.
Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm. Based at North Tyneside Business Centre, North Shields.
