Websites for accountants.
I'm Huw. I build sites for accountants and other small businesses around Bridgend and South Wales. I can help acquire and setup your domain, the hosting and your custom email.
It's just me, so you deal with the same person the whole way through.
For most sites I build, there's no ongoing monthly cost once it's live, that includes no hosting cost. You'll see some other agencies charge a monthly ongoing fee to keep your site live, with me, you only pay when you actually need something.
I'm in Bridgend, working across South Wales and remotely anywhere in the UK.
What your customers type
The searches worth turning up for. Each one wants something slightly different from the page it lands on.
- do I need an accountant as a sole trader
- sole trader vs limited company
- how much does an accountant cost for a limited company
- accountant vs bookkeeper
- do I need to register for VAT
- when is the self assessment deadline
- Making Tax Digital for landlords
- what can I claim as a sole trader
- CIS refund how long does it take
- accountant for sole traders Bridgend
- limited company accountant near me
- bookkeeper near me
Most of the searching is questions
Long before anyone types “accountant near me” they’re typing “do I need an accountant as a sole trader”, “sole trader vs limited company”, “what can I claim”, “when is the self assessment deadline”. They’re trying to work out what they’ve got themselves into. Whoever helps with that first is the one they ring, and a services page listing accounts, tax, payroll and VAT matches none of it.
What each of them is really asking
The sole trader who’s just gone self employed wants to know whether they’re already in trouble. The one comparing you on fee has worked out that nobody in your trade publishes a number, and is quietly impressed by anyone who does. And there’s a growing group, landlords and sole traders, who’ve heard the words Making Tax Digital, know it’s coming for them and have no idea when or what it means for a shoebox of receipts. Hardly anybody local is answering that one yet.
Say what you are
ICAEW, ACCA, AAT, ATT, CIMA, or supervised for anti-money-laundering purposes by HMRC directly if you’re a bookkeeper. Whichever it is, anyone who’s read an article about choosing an accountant has been told to check exactly that, so it may as well be easy to find.
What I’d do for you
The first conversation is me going through how your clients find you, what they’re worried about at each stage and which of those questions you’d want to be the one answering. Then I’ll scope it and price it.
The build, your email and your Google profile
Most of these sites are static: plain files on a server, nothing to log into, no plugin sat there waiting to be patched. They load quickly on a phone with two bars of signal, and for most of them there's no ongoing hosting cost. No monthly retainer, and the domain renews once a year at list price in your name with no commission from me. If you'd rather edit the pages yourself I'll build you something you can edit, and tell you what it costs to run before we start.
Email goes on your own custom domain, setup properly so your quotes, invoices and confirmations land in the inbox rather than the spam folder.
Then the Google Business Profile, which on a phone often sits above every website on the screen. I go through yours with you and get it agreeing with the site, because when the two disagree they stop being read as the same business.
What I'd build for accountants in your town
The job is the same wherever you are. What changes is which town and village names belong on the page, that's what people type.
See where your site stands first
Put your address into the free check and it tells you where the site's hosted, what it's built with, what a search engine actually gets and whether your email is setup right. Takes about ten seconds and nothing on your site is touched. Run the free check.
If the email records come back failing, that's worth reading about on its own. If it's the site, here's how I build them, and here are five things to ask anyone quoting you.
Tell me about the business.
Say what you're trying to achieve and I'll tell you what I'd do, including when the answer is an hour on your Google Business Profile would do more than a new site.