Burnaby’s business landscape is dense and fast-moving. Between the commercial corridors at Metrotown and Brentwood, the professional services clusters near Deer Lake, the tech presence around BCIT, and the academic community at SFU, there’s serious competition for every customer searching online. Your website is often the deciding factor. If it loads slowly, looks dated, or makes it hard for a visitor to take the next step, you’re handing that customer to a competitor. We build websites for Burnaby businesses that are designed to convert, structured for search, built to last, and easy for you to manage once we hand them over.
Most of your customers are finding you on a phone. Burnaby’s SkyTrain-connected neighbourhoods mean people are searching on the go, comparing their options in seconds, and often making decisions before they even get home. A website that isn’t built with that in mind is already behind. We design with mobile performance and local search visibility at the centre of every decision, so your site doesn’t just look good. It shows up where your customers are looking and makes it easy for them to choose you.
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We start by looking at what your Burnaby competitors are doing online. Which ones are ranking well, and why? Where are they falling short? What are the customers in your area actually searching for? This research shapes the structure, the content strategy, the SEO foundation, and the overall direction of your site before a single page is designed. Skipping this step is one of the main reasons websites launch and go nowhere.
Your website should look like it belongs to you, not like a theme someone downloaded and barely customized. We design in stages, starting with wireframes that map out the structure of each page, then moving into full visual design once the layout is approved. You see exactly what your homepage will look like before we build anything, and nothing moves forward until you’re happy with it. Subpages follow the same process.
We build on WordPress, WooCommerce, and Shopify depending on your needs. These are widely supported platforms that give you control over your own content without needing a developer for every small update. Every site we build is fully mobile-responsive and coded to current standards, so it performs well on every device. In a market like Burnaby, where a large share of searches happen on phones between SkyTrain stops, that matters more than most business owners realize.
We write the content for your site. That means researching how your customers in Burnaby search, what questions they’re asking, and what language they use to find businesses like yours. The copy we produce is written to rank for the right local terms and to speak to real people, not just for search engines. If you already have content you want to keep or rework, we can incorporate that too.
Before your site goes live, we put the completed build on a staging environment so you can walk through it as your customers will. You’ll test every page, every form, and every link before anything is published. When you’re satisfied, we handle the transition from your old site carefully, preserving your existing rankings and minimizing any disruption. Going live should feel like a milestone, not a risk.
Our offices are in Abbotsford and Langley, a short drive from Burnaby along Highway 1. We’re not a distant marketing company you communicate with only by email. We meet in person, answer our phones, and show up when something needs attention quickly. For a project as important as your website, that kind of accessibility matters.
Most web design companies think about design. We think about design and about what happens after someone lands on your site. Every site we build has a clear structure for local SEO, page speed that doesn’t frustrate mobile users, copy written to convert, and a foundation that supports your marketing long after launch. That’s the difference between a website that looks good and a website that generates business for you in Burnaby’s competitive market.
We’ve heard too many stories from Burnaby business owners who handed a project to a developer, heard nothing for weeks, and then got a website that missed the mark entirely. Our process is built to prevent that. You see the work at every stage and approve it before we move on. You never get a finished product that doesn’t match what you asked for.
We quote the full scope of the project before any work begins. No surprises, no extras added after the fact, no ongoing fees that weren’t discussed upfront. You own everything we build for you: the domain, the code, the content, and all the logins. And we work without contracts, because we believe good work is what keeps clients coming back, not lock-in clauses.
After meeting with FirstPage Marketing, we realized that a new website and rebrand was necessary in order to get to where we wanted to be as a company. FirstPage helped us through this process with great service along the way. Since the launch of our new website and rebranding action, the results have been excellent. Not only are we seeing a great inflow of leads, the leads we are getting are much more qualified and better aligned with our target audience. We are very happy with our new website because it brings results and we feel that it best represents who we are as a company.
~ Craig Anderson
EC Managed IT
They significantly improved our Google rankings, moving us from the third or fourth page to now the top of Google searches. Our new website is easy to follow and I would highly recommend Steve and FirstPage Marketing to any business. The returns for growth are phenomenal!
~ Tania Hughes
Posh Paws City Kennel
Start by looking for companies with a verifiable local track record, client reviews you can read in full, and a portfolio that shows work in your industry or a comparable one. Ask whether the company writes the content or expects you to provide it, whether you’ll own the site outright when it’s done, and what platform it will be built on. Be cautious of companies that build on proprietary platforms that lock you in, or that can’t clearly explain how SEO is built into the development process. At FirstPage Marketing, we’ve been building websites for businesses across BC since 2001. We build on WordPress, WooCommerce, and Shopify, and every site we build is structured for local search performance from the ground up.
The difference is in how it’s researched and structured. A website built for Burnaby is optimized for the local search terms your customers are actually using, structured to perform well in Google’s local results, written with your specific Burnaby market in mind, and built on a foundation that supports ongoing local SEO. A generic website might look similar on the surface, but it won’t have the local keyword targeting, the location-specific content, or the technical SEO foundation that helps Burnaby customers find you over competitors who have invested in local optimization.
Ranking well in Burnaby requires addressing both technical and content factors. On the technical side, your site needs to load quickly, work properly on mobile devices, have a clean URL structure, and be free of crawl errors that prevent Google from indexing it. On the content side, each page needs to target the specific search terms your Burnaby customers are using, with location signals woven naturally into the headings, body copy, and metadata. Your Google Business Profile also needs to be optimized and consistent with your website. A site built with these factors in mind from day one performs significantly better in local search than one where SEO is added as an afterthought.
The most important qualities are transparency, a clear process, and evidence that the company understands the connection between design and marketing performance. Look for a company that builds on platforms you can manage yourself, gives you full ownership of the site and all your logins, explains how SEO is incorporated into the build, and has a process for showing you work at each stage before moving forward. Ask to see examples of sites they’ve built, read their reviews, and find out who actually does the work. Companies that can’t explain their process clearly or that avoid questions about ownership and platform flexibility are worth approaching with caution.
Most projects run between six and twelve weeks from our first meeting to launch. The timeline depends on the size of the site, the complexity of the design, and how quickly feedback and content come together on your end. We give you a realistic timeline at the start of every project and keep you updated throughout. We don’t set launch dates we can’t meet.
Yes, and it’s one of our priorities from day one, not something added at the end. A large share of searches in Burnaby happen on phones, particularly around the city’s busy SkyTrain corridors. Every site we build is fully mobile-responsive and tested across devices and screen sizes before launch.
We handle the copywriting as part of every project. We research your industry, your Burnaby competitors, and the local search terms your customers are using before we write a word. The content we produce is written to rank for the right local terms and speak to your specific Burnaby audience. If you have existing content you’d like to keep or adapt, or you want to write your own content, we can work with that too.
Your existing site stays completely live and unaffected throughout the entire project. We build the new one on a private staging environment that’s invisible to the public and to search engines, so nothing changes for your visitors or your rankings during the build. The transition to the new site only happens once you’ve approved it and we’re ready to launch. We manage that transition carefully, redirecting old URLs to preserve your existing SEO value and minimizing any risk of downtime or ranking disruption.
Yes. Most of our sites are built on WordPress, which is designed for non-technical users to manage without needing developer support for every change. Before handoff, we walk you through how to update pages, add content, swap out images, and make basic edits on your own. Most of our clients are comfortable managing their sites within the first session. If something more complex comes up later, we’re available to help.
It depends on what’s holding your current site back. If the structure is sound, the platform is modern, and the site loads well on mobile, a targeted update to the content and design may be all you need. If the platform is outdated, the site is slow, it wasn’t built with mobile in mind, or it lacks the SEO foundation to rank well in Burnaby’s competitive market, a full rebuild is usually the better investment. We’ll assess your current site honestly during the consultation and give you a clear recommendation before suggesting anything.
Website costs for a small Burnaby business vary depending on the size of the site, whether copywriting is included, the platform it’s built on, and the complexity of the design. A focused five-page service site for a local trades business looks very different from a fifteen-page site for a professional services firm or a full eCommerce build for a Metrotown retailer. We quote each project individually based on what it actually requires, and we provide a detailed, itemized breakdown before any work begins. No hidden fees, no surprises mid-project.
We scope and quote each project individually because the right website for a five-page trades business in Edmonds looks very different from a full eCommerce build for a Metrotown retailer. We give you a detailed, itemized quote before any work begins so you know exactly what’s included. No hidden fees, no surprises mid-project.
We’re here to listen to you. Tell us what you need or where you want to go. We’ll help you find the best solution.
