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Web design and SEO in Derby

Derby is known for Rolls-Royce and Toyota, but 7,560 of its 9,495 businesses have fewer than ten staff, and their customers are choosing on a phone. We build the site and the Google presence that gets you chosen. Web design starts at £995 and SEO at £295 a month. Both go into your quote in writing, and there’s no VAT to add.

Written by Muhammad Younus, founder of Renozer. Last updated 2 November 2026. Editorial policy.

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Web design Derby

Web design and SEO problems Derby businesses bring us

These are the problems owners describe on a first call, in their own words, and what we do about each one.

01
The problem

We’re every bit as good as the garage down the road, but Maps shows them

How we fix it

Derby has 1,790 wholesale, retail and motor repair firms, and Google Maps puts only a few at the top. We sharpen your Business Profile category and services, write a page for each part of the city you cover, and help you ask your customers for reviews. Each month’s report counts the calls and direction requests that came from Maps.

02
The problem

Our website looks like a template, and customers can tell

How we fix it

With 9,495 businesses in the city, a shopper on a phone puts three of them side by side before choosing one. We build around your real photos and prices, keep the call and booking buttons under the thumb, and show you the design before we build anything. The result looks like you, and the button rings.

03
The problem

We were quoted £1,200 a month for SEO, and nobody could say what we’d get

How we fix it

We read 5 Derby SEO pages and only one showed a monthly price, from £1,200 plus VAT. Ours are £295, £495 or £695 a month, with 30 days’ notice after three months. Younus walks you through a monthly report on video, counting calls, form enquiries and rankings, so you see what each month’s fee bought.

04
The problem

Someone asked ChatGPT for a good garage near Alvaston, and we weren’t named

How we fix it

Derby has 760 health and social work firms and 745 in food and accommodation. AI assistants lean towards businesses that state their services, hours and reviews plainly and mark them up as structured data. We build that into your pages, then check each month which questions name you. You get a short list of the gaps we’ll close next.

05
The problem

The firm that built our site wants a fee just to change a phone number

How we fix it

Derby’s 1,065 construction firms are mostly tiny, 985 with fewer than ten staff, so nobody has time to argue with a developer. Your domain, hosting, Analytics and Search Console go in your name on day one, and you get a short video on editing your own pages. If you don’t want to touch it, Website Care from £49 a month handles updates, so a changed phone number never needs a quote.

06
The problem

People read the site, then ring the next firm on the list

How we fix it

Derby has 1,210 professional, scientific and technical firms, so a buyer picking an accountant or surveyor will skim a few sites in a lunch break. If your number is hidden or the page crawls, they move on. We count calls, forms and WhatsApp taps, see where visitors drop off, and repair those pages first. If the design is fine, the £595 On-page SEO Fix covers up to 10 pages.

SEO agency Derby results

Results we can show you

Real projects with their Google Search Console numbers, and reviews copied word for word from Younus’s Upwork profile.

Top Rated Pluson Upwork

100%Job Success Score

271client reviews on Upwork

430+projects since 2019

Search Console for scrapavehicle.co.uk, three months of clicks and impressions, both rising
UK · Vehicle scrapping

Scrap a Vehicle: from about 10 clicks a day to about 70

3,364clicks, 12 Jun to 10 Sep 2026
420,988impressions

Around 500 location pages built in WordPress, one per UK town and region.

Honest note: average position is 17.1, so most of that reach is still on page two.

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Search Console for gkjewelers.pk, three months of clicks and impressions, a mid June dip
Redesign · Online jewellery shop

GK Jewelers: traffic recovered within a week of a bad redesign, then doubled

39,953clicks, 13 Jun to 11 Sep 2026
4.0average position

A redesign cut clicks to about a fifth in three days. We mapped the redirects, then improved category and product pages.

Honest note: a 3.69% click rate at position 4 should still be higher.

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Search Console for alpenglowfireplace.com, 28 days: 54 clicks from 728 impressions, a 7.4% CTR
New website · Local trade

Alpenglow Fireplace: a new site getting enquiries in its first month

7.42%click rate, first 28 days
54clicks from 728 impressions

A new WordPress site, designed and launched on 9 August 2026. The owner reports enquiries already coming in.

Honest note: one month is a small sample, not a trend.

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I hired Muhammad after spending two years with two different SEO companies that achieved virtually nothing. Muhammad achieved more in six months than those companies did in two years. Since working with him, I’ve seen an increase in client bookings, with some clients even telling me they found my company because it was recommended by ChatGPT and Claude. …
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Lux JewelsSEO contract, Mar to Sep 2026, 5.0 on UpworkUpwork review
It was a pleasure to work with Muhammad on our new website. He took the time to understand our brief and broke down each step of the process so I was always clear on exactly what he was doing and what was coming next. Muhammad delivered a professional, well built site that looks fantastic. We would highly recommend his services and will definitely be working with him again.
Upwork clientWordPress Website Development, May to Jun 2026, 5.0Upwork review
Absolutely STELLAR!!!! He came in and not only fixed someone's else's mistakes - but he did it quickly and now BOTH my mobile AND my desktop sites load quickly and look fantastic!! Thank you again!
Upwork clientWordPress Website Fixes, May 2026, 5.0Upwork review
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Website design Derby prices

What web design costs in Derby, and what you get

Every item below is in the price, and the prices are the same anywhere in the UK. Not sure which fits? Tick "Not sure yet" in the form and we’ll recommend one.

Websites from £995 one-off Local SEO from £295 a month One-off SEO from £295

The largest group in Derby is wholesale, retail and motor repair, with 1,790 firms, and 1,380 of them have fewer than ten staff. If that’s you, we’d pair the Business Website at £1,495 with Local SEO at £295 a month, so a person searching for your garage or shop sees a clear site and a Maps listing in one glance. Already like your site? The £295 SEO Audit is credited in full if you move on to a plan. Or send the quote form and you’ll hear back within one working day.

Web design in Derby: one-off price

Starter Website£995For sole traders and new businesses.
  • Up to 5 custom-designed pages
  • Mobile-first and fast loading
  • LocalBusiness schema
  • Google Business Profile set-up
  • Search Console and GA4
  • 1 round of design changes
  • 30 days support after launch

Wix, Squarespace or WordPress

Business WebsiteMost chosen£1,495For service businesses that want enquiries.
  • Up to 10 custom-designed pages
  • Main page copy written from keyword research
  • Local SEO set-up and Core Web Vitals
  • Call, form and WhatsApp tracking
  • 1 hour training video
  • 2 rounds of design changes
  • 60 days support after launch

Any platform, WordPress included

Growth or Online Shop£2,495For shops and businesses ready to scale.
  • Everything in Business
  • Up to 20 pages, or a shop with up to 50 products
  • AI search set-up: entity schema, llms.txt, FAQ answers
  • Sales and conversion tracking
  • 3 rounds of design changes
  • 90 days support, same working day replies

Up to 20 pages, or Shopify/WooCommerce

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Local SEO in Derby: monthly

Local SEO£295a monthFor one town, trades and small local firms.
  • Google Business Profile management and weekly posts
  • Review replies and citations
  • 1 new local page or post a month
  • Rank tracking
  • Monthly report on calls, forms and rankings
  • Monthly call

Three-month minimum, then 30 days notice

Growth SEOMost chosen£495a monthFor businesses competing across a city.
  • Everything in Local SEO
  • 2 answer-first pages a month
  • Technical fixes and internal links
  • Content refreshes
  • Monthly AI visibility report
  • Priority replies

No set-up fee

AI Search Authority£695a monthFor firms that want to be named by ChatGPT and Google AI.
  • Everything in Growth SEO
  • 4 pages a month
  • Entity and schema build-out
  • Digital PR mentions
  • Tracking in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews
  • Fortnightly call, same working day replies

Starts with a technical and entity audit

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One-off SEO, if you’d like to start small

SEO Audit£295For owners who want to know what is wrong first.
  • Technical, on-page and Google Business Profile audit
  • AI visibility check
  • Plain-English fix list in priority order
  • 30 minute video walk-through
  • Questions answered for 14 days

Credited in full if you then buy an SEO package

On-page SEO FixPopular£595For sites that are fine but under-optimised.
  • Titles and meta descriptions
  • Headings, schema and internal links
  • Image alt text and speed quick wins
  • Before and after rankings
  • 30 days support

Up to 10 pages

SEO Launch£995For new or rebuilt sites starting SEO properly.
  • Everything in the audit, fixed for you
  • Google Business Profile optimisation
  • 20 UK citations
  • Search Console, GA4 and Bing set-up
  • A three-month plan
  • 60 days support

Audit plus fixes on up to 15 pages

Get a quote for one-off seo

Whatever you choose, you also get

  • A fixed written quote with each milestone, its cost and its due date
  • Your domain, website and accounts in your name from day one
  • Our founder, Younus, leading the work and answering your messages
  • Replies within one working day, Monday to Friday
  • No VAT to add: the price you see is the price you pay
  • Your deposit back if you don’t approve your website design
The Safe Start promise

You don’t pay for a design you don’t like

Hiring someone you’ve never met is a risk, so we take that risk on ourselves. We only guarantee what we control.

Some SEO sellers promise

Page 1 on Google, guaranteed

What Google saysNo one can guarantee a #1 ranking on Google.Google Search Central
Start with the Safe Start promisePrefer bank transfer? That’s fine too, and the design refund still applies.
  1. Don’t like the design? Full refund

    If you don’t approve your homepage design, we refund your deposit and you walk away. No build starts until you say yes.

  2. Your money can sit with Upwork

    Pay through Upwork if you like. Each payment only reaches us when you approve that stage.

  3. Your launch date in writing

    Your quote shows each milestone, what it costs and when it’s due.

  4. Everything is yours

    Domain, site, Google profile, Analytics and Search Console sit in your name, so you’re never locked in.

Derby business market

Derby’s business market in numbers

How many businesses share Derby’s search results, and how small most of them are. The counts cover the City of Derby unitary authority, not the rest of Derbyshire.

9,495enterprises in the City of Derby. In a market this size, being easy to find and ring beats being the loudest.
7,560are micro firms, 80% of the total. Most owners do everything themselves, so one fixed monthly price and one point of contact suit them.
1,790wholesale, retail and motor repair firms lead the count. Their customers compare opening hours and reviews on a phone before they set off, so those two things carry the sale.

What Derby providers charge, and what we charge

We read 13 Derby provider pages from Google UK results on 2 November 2026. Only 3 listed a price for a general business service (a fourth, a car-dealer platform, listed £79 a month), and just one of those was a monthly SEO price. Here is how they sit beside ours.

A small business websitethree years of published starting prices
Derby pages
£8,964£12,300
Renozer
£995 to £4,259
£0£3,250£6,500£9,750£13,000
  • £8,964 over three years: "fully managed from £249/month", with design, hosting and development in one fee, on one Derby page
  • £12,300 over three years: "Starting From £1.5k Build + £300 p/m", on a second Derby page
  • £995 to £4,259 over three years: Renozer, a one-off £995 to £2,495 plus optional Website Care at £49 a month, no VAT
See the full comparison, including AI search
What you’re buyingWhat we found on Derby pagesRenozer
A small business websiteGeneral business website prices on 2 of the 8 web design pages we read: from £249 a month fully managed on one, and from £1,500 to build plus £300 a month on another (a third, a car-dealer platform, listed £79 a month)£995, £1,495 or £2,495, one-off, with no VAT and no monthly fee to us
Monthly SEOOne of the 5 SEO pages we read showed a monthly price: from £1,200 plus VAT. The other four showed none£295, £495 or £695 a month, then 30 days’ notice after three months
AI search (ChatGPT, AI Overviews)Mentioned on 3 of the 5 SEO pages we readPart of the Growth website, and reported each month on the Growth SEO and AI Search plans

Sources: ONS UK Business Counts 2026, enterprises, via Nomis (Derby local authority); Derby; search volumes from Keywords Everywhere (UK, November 2026); prices and wording from 13 Derby provider pages (8 web design, 5 SEO) in Google UK results, read on 2 November 2026.

Local SEO Derby

How Derby customers search for you

A garage owner in Mickleover, a roofer in Belper and an accountant near Pride Park all get found in different ways. Here is how each part of Derby, and the towns around it, searches for a business like yours, and what we’d change first.

The centre, Pride Park and the offices around them

Shopping splits across the Cathedral Quarter, the St Peters Quarter and Derbion, and the offices behind them hold many of Derby’s 1,210 professional firms. A separate page for each service, matched by a Maps listing, makes the choice easy for a client. Name the service that pays your bills on the quote form and that’s where we begin.

Allestree, Mickleover, Littleover, Chellaston and the other suburbs

Google’s tool shows no measurable volume for "mechanic Littleover" or "roofer Mickleover", and a KE zero isn’t proof of no demand, but the searches that do register use the city name: "garage Derby" gets about 1,300 a month, "mobile mechanic Derby" about 590 and "mechanic Derby" about 210. So we start with a strong Derby page, then add suburb pages where your own customer list shows work. Ring 0161 394 2632 and we’ll check which suburbs earn a page for your trade.

Long Eaton, Belper and the towns around Derby

These sit outside the city council’s boundary, and customers search them by name: "roofer Long Eaton" gets about 110 searches a month, "roofer Belper" about 70 and "mechanic Long Eaton" about 20. A firm there who only targets "Derby" competes with the whole city, so we write pages for your own town first and report the calls each one brings.

From a search to an enquiry, step by step

A typical local search in Derby, and the part we handle at each step.

  1. They search the job and the townWe match your pages to how people really search, like "mechanic Long Eaton".
  2. Google shows map results near the topWe set up your Maps category, service area and reviews so you can appear there.
  3. They tap the business they trustA fast page for each service, with your prices, photos and proof.
  4. The visit becomes an enquiryA short quote form that lands straight in your inbox.
Illustration of a typical local search on a phone. Not a real listing.

Coverage

From Darley Abbey to Chellaston, and the towns beyond

Derby’s customers don’t stop at the ring road. If yours come from Allestree, Spondon or across the boundary in Long Eaton and Belper, your Google profile and pages should name those places, and we’ll set both up around the ones that pay your bills.

City of Derby
  1. 1Derby city centre
  2. 2Darley Abbey
  3. 3Allestree
  4. 4Mackworth
  5. 5Oakwood
  6. 6Chaddesden
  7. 7Spondon
  8. 8Alvaston
  9. 9Chellaston
  10. 10Sinfin
  11. 11Normanton
  12. 12Littleover
  13. 13Mickleover
Just outside the city
  1. 14Belper
  2. 15Duffield
  3. 16Borrowash
  4. 17Long Eaton
Schematic map of the places we cover in DerbyCity of DerbyN1Derby city centre2Darley Abbey3Allestree4Mackworth5Oakwood6Chaddesden7Spondon8Alvaston9Chellaston10Sinfin11Normanton12Littleover13Mickleover14Belper15Duffield16Borrowash17Long Eaton
City of DerbySchematic, not to scale
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Web designer for Derby

Working with a remote web designer for Derby businesses

We’re not based in Derby and we won’t pretend to be. Here’s how it works, and the three worries people raise most.

  • “You’re not local”

    We work remotely with UK businesses, Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time, by video call, phone, WhatsApp and email.

  • “I’d like to meet someone first”

    Every project starts with a video call where you see Younus and his screen, and you approve the designs before anything is built.

  • “What if you disappear?”

    You own every account from day one, and you can pay through Upwork so your money is only released when you approve each stage.

SEO Derby FAQ

Web design and SEO in Derby: questions from local businesses

The questions Derby owners ask most, answered plainly. See also the full FAQ.

What does a website cost in Derby, and is £995 realistic?
Of the 8 Derby web design pages we read on 2 November 2026, 2 showed a general business website price, and both were monthly: from £249 a month "fully managed", and from £1,500 to build plus £300 a month. A third page, for a car-dealer platform, listed £79 a month. £249 a month is £2,988 a year, or £8,964 over three years. Ours are £995 for 5 pages, £1,495 for 10 and £2,495 for 20 pages or a shop, one-off, and neither page said whether VAT was included. We don’t charge it. Send the quote form and we’ll put your exact price in writing.
A Derby SEO firm quoted me £1,200 plus VAT a month. What should I expect to pay?
That matches the only monthly price we found. Of the 5 Derby SEO pages we read, one showed "starting at £1,200+VAT per month" and the other four showed none, so most owners have to ring to find out. Our plans are £295, £495 and £695 a month with no VAT, a three-month minimum, then 30 days’ notice. Curious what £295 would fix first? The SEO Audit is credited in full against any plan.
I’m a roofer in Derby. "Roofer Derby" gets 1,300 searches, so why do I never get the calls?
Because that term is crowded, with a KE competition score of 0.85 out of 1, and "roofer Belper" scores 1.00. A small firm rarely wins it head on. We’d build your Business Profile around the jobs you want, such as roof repair, which gets about 320 searches a month in Derby, then write pages for the towns you cover, such as Long Eaton at about 110. We’d count the calls each one brings. Send the quote form and we’ll check the figures for your patch.
I run a garage near Alvaston. Do customers search "garage", "mechanic" or "car mechanic"?
Mostly "garage": "garage Derby" gets about 1,300 searches a month against about 210 for "mechanic Derby" and about 70 for "car mechanic Derby". "Mobile mechanic Derby" gets about 590, so if you do call-outs say so on a page of its own. We use the word customers actually type in your headings and Business Profile, and put opening hours and a booking button on the first screen. Ring 0161 394 2632 and we’ll look at which of the three suits your garage.
You’re not in Derby, so how would we actually work together?
Correct, we work from Karachi on UK hours, Monday to Friday, so there’s no office to pop into in Derby. You get video calls, WhatsApp, a dated plan and, if you start on Upwork, its payment protection. Don’t like the design and the deposit is refunded. Ring 0161 394 2632 first and decide whether you like how we talk.
An agency charged me every month and I never saw what it did. What’s different?
Our monthly report lists the calls and form enquiries, not only rankings, and Younus talks you through it on a video call. The Business Profile, Analytics and domain are registered to you, so leaving costs you nothing but the notice period. That’s three months minimum, then 30 days. If you’re weighing a managed site at £249 a month, ask who owns it when you stop paying.
When I search "SEO Derby" I get firms in Kansas and Connecticut. Does Google mix them up?
It does for that search: 4 of the first 10 results we saw for "seo derby" were about Derby in Kansas or Connecticut. Someone looking for a Derbyshire business adds place clues, such as the area, a postcode or "near me". So we write your pages around real Derby places and keep your Business Profile address and service area consistent. Want to see how your own search looks? Send the quote form.
My customers are in Long Eaton, Belper and Ilkeston, not Derby itself. Do you cover us?
Yes, at the same price. Those towns sit outside the city council’s boundary, and their own searches are small but real: "web design Long Eaton" gets about 50 a month, "web design Belper" about 20 and "web design Ilkeston" about 20. A page for your town plus Derby as the wider net costs the same as one broad page. Send the quote form with your postcode and we’ll reply within one working day.
Still got a question?Our assistant answers straight away, and Younus picks up anything it can’t.
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