Web design, branding and marketing, Manchester

Manchester web design and marketing that win work

Ignite handles web design, branding and marketing for Manchester businesses, from independents in the Northern Quarter and Ancoats to professional firms around Spinningfields and local businesses in Didsbury and Chorlton.

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Tell us about your business in Manchester. We'll show you what's holding it back and how we'd fix it.

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If any of these sound familiar, you're invisible in a very crowded city

Manchester is the most competitive place in the North West to run a business online. Whatever you do, dozens of others do it too, and many of them spend heavily on search and ads. That doesn’t mean a smaller firm can’t win. It means the website has to be sharper, the brand clearer and the targeting narrower than it would need to be anywhere else. Ignite builds for that: specific services, specific districts, and a reason to choose you.

Built to turn a Manchester search into an enquiry

In Manchester, broad searches are dominated by big budgets, so we go narrow. We set up your Google Business Profile for the district you’re in, build a page for each service you want to be known for and write for the specific questions customers ask. A firm that is the obvious answer to one search does better than one that is the tenth answer to twenty.

Web design Manchester: the Ignite Creative team reviewing a website build on studio screens

Manchester and the areas around it

We work with businesses across Manchester, from the city centre to the southern suburbs. You can meet us at your premises or on a video call, whichever suits you. We also work with businesses in Salford, Stockport and Sale.

City centre

Deansgate, Spinningfields and the business district in M1 to M3.

Northern Quarter and Ancoats

Independent shops, studios, bars and restaurants in M4.

Oxford Road and the universities

Health, education and the businesses that serve them.

Didsbury and Withington

Village independents, clinics and practices in M20.

Chorlton and Whalley Range

Local shops, food and services in M21 and M16.

Cheetham Hill, Ardwick and east Manchester

Trade, wholesale and industrial businesses.

How a Manchester web design project runs

1

Free review

Send us your website, or tell us what you need. We look at how you show up for Manchester searches and what’s holding the site back, then tell you plainly.

2

Plan and clear quote

We agree what’s needed and in what order, with a fixed quote before any work starts.

3

Build, launch, keep improving

We design and build it, launch it, then look after the hosting, SEO and updates if you want us to.

Straight answers

Anything else? Ask when you send the form and we’ll answer properly.

Yes, by choosing the ground. You won’t outrank a national brand for a broad term, but you can be first for a specific service in a specific district. We find those searches and build for them.

Lead with the district. Someone in Didsbury searching for a dentist is shown Didsbury results. We set the site up so district searches and wider city searches each find the right page.

Usually. Ads are cheaper and convert better when they land on a page written for that exact search. We build those pages and tidy the account so you stop paying for clicks that were never going to buy.

Yes. The design follows the business. For studios, venues and independents we lead with the work, the space and the people, and keep the route to booking or buying short.

It depends on what’s needed, so web design for a Manchester business is quoted after the free review, with a fixed price before any work starts. For a simple business site, our Free Website Offer has no design or build fee: you pay £220 for setup and the first year’s hosting.

Let's make your Manchester business the obvious choice for something.

Tell us what you do best and where your customers are. We’ll come back with the searches we’d go after first.

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