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Pricing & transparency

We Checked 50 Top Web Design Agencies. 79% Won't Publish a Price.

78.6% of top agencies publish no prices. So we built the dataset ourselves: 34 published price lists, 6 platforms, 2 marketplaces and 7 cost guides, with a link for every number.

9 min read · Updated August 2026
78.6% of top-listed web design agencies publish no prices
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No listicles, no thought leadership, no posts written to hit a word count. Each one answers a question a real client asked us, and says plainly where the numbers came from.

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Branding

Say one clear thing: branding for small business

Most small business branding problems are not visual. The logo is fine. The problem is saying five reasonable things at once, and a person who hears five remembers none.

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Content

Write for the question, not the keyword

A keyword is a fragment of a question with the situation stripped out. Write for the fragment and you produce something on topic that answers nothing. Here is the method, the cadence, and the arithmetic.

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E-commerce

Why a Shopify store loses orders at checkout, and what to check first

A diagnostic in sequence, cheapest and most common first, so you stop when you find your problem instead of working through twenty tactics that mostly recommend an app.

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Local SEO

Google Business Profile: the twenty minutes that move the needle

Every guide is forty items and none of them say which four matter. Here is the same subject ordered by result per minute, plus the one thing that takes longer and matters more.

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SEO

What technical SEO actually means, in plain words

Three questions a machine asks about your website, the jargon translated, and four checks you can run yourself in fifteen minutes without buying a tool.

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Local SEO

The map pack is three slots. Here is how businesses get into them.

Local search is not ordinary search with a map on top. Three slots changes what is worth doing, which fights you can win, and how you should judge an agency that offers to help.

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