ONE TEAM • ONE PLAN • NO LOOSE ENDS

Your Website, Fully Managed.

We take care of the hosting, security, updates, performance, SEO and everyday website work that keeps your business moving forward.

Managed Hosting Security Website Updates SEO Ongoing Support
Complete website management services from Nova Scotia Design
Since 2007 Managing Business Websites
250+ Websites Under Management
Always Working Monitoring, Backups & Protection
Month to Month No Long-Term Contract

Everything Your Website Needs,
Built Around Your Business

We do not force every client into the same package or make important services available only as expensive add-ons. Your website management plan is shaped around the website you have, the work it requires and the goals of your business.

Pricing is prepared individually, so you know exactly what is included and what you will pay each month. There are no confusing service levels, surprise charges or long-term agreements holding you in place.

Your website is looked after by an experienced North American team of developers, designers and marketing specialists. If you need assistance, you can contact an actual person by phone, email or support ticket. We work to keep your business because the service is valuable, not because a contract makes it difficult to leave.

Speed and technical health

A slow site loses people before it gets the chance to sell to them — and Google knows it is slow.

Core Web Vitals

Google measures how fast your pages load, how quickly they respond to a tap, and whether things jump around while loading — and it uses those measurements in rankings. We monitor all three continuously.

Real Visitor Speed

Testing a page on a simulated phone in a data centre tells you what could happen. We measure what actually happens for your real customers on their real phones and connections, which is what Google grades you on.

Performance Fixes

A speed score is useless without knowing what to change. We turn the findings into specific work and carry it out — the oversized image, the render-blocking script, the slow first byte.

On-Page SEO Audits

Sites drift. A plugin update strips a heading, a page loses its description, an image loses its alt text. We audit regularly so small problems get fixed while they're still small.

Image Weight Auditing

The single most common reason a site is slow is one enormous image nobody noticed. Background images are the worst offenders because standard optimisers can't see them at all. We find them and cut them down.

Resource Prioritisation

A browser guesses what to load first and often guesses wrong, leaving your main image until last. Telling it explicitly what matters is one of the cheapest speed gains available, and almost nobody does it.

Getting found

The work that puts you in front of someone the moment they go looking for what you do.

Local Landing Pages

Most people don't search for "plumber" — they search for "plumber in Kleinburg." We build a real page for every service you offer in every town you serve, so you show up for the search someone actually types. One page can't rank for fifty towns; fifty pages can.

Keyword Research & Tracking

We work out which searches are worth winning in your market, then track your position on every one of them, week after week. Without tracking you're guessing whether anything is working. With it, we can see a page slipping before you lose the phone calls.

Search Console Monitoring

Google tells you exactly which searches showed your site, how often, and where you ranked — but only for sixteen months, and only if someone is collecting it. We pull it daily and keep it, so you have a history rather than a snapshot.

Keyword Opportunity Finding

There are always searches you're on page two for. Those are the cheapest wins available — you're already close, and a small push moves them onto page one. We find them continuously rather than waiting for a quarterly review.

Internal Linking

Google works out what a page is about partly from how the rest of your site points at it. Left alone, most sites have pages nothing links to, which Google reads as "unimportant." We keep the connections deliberate.

Titles & Descriptions

The title is the blue line someone clicks in Google, and the description is the sentence underneath. They're the only part of your site most searchers ever read. We write and maintain them across every page, not just the homepage.

Structured Data

Search engines and AI assistants need to be told, in a format they read directly, that you're a plumbing business in Burlington that offers drain cleaning. Guessing from your page text is unreliable. We publish it explicitly, so nothing is left to interpretation.

AI Search Readiness

People increasingly ask ChatGPT and Google's AI for a recommendation instead of scrolling results. Those systems pick sources rather than rank pages, and they favour sites that are structured, current and quick to index. We keep yours in that group.

Instant Indexing

A new page is worth nothing until search engines know it exists, which can otherwise take days or weeks. We notify them the moment anything publishes or changes.

Keyword Cannibalisation Checks

When two of your pages target the same search, they compete with each other and Google often picks the wrong one. It's invisible from the outside and it caps how well either page can do. We find those clashes and resolve them.

Redirect Management

Pages get renamed, removed and restructured over the years. Every broken link is a dead end for a visitor and a lost signal for Google. We keep the old addresses pointing at the right new ones.

Backlink Analysis

Links from other sites are still one of the strongest signals in search. Knowing which ones you have — and which are worthless or actively harmful — tells us where you genuinely stand against competitors.

Sitemap Management

Your sitemap is the list you hand search engines saying "here's everything, come and look." If new pages aren't on it, they may sit undiscovered for months.

Answering Real Questions

People search in questions — "how much does a fence cost in Ajax." Pages that answer those directly get pulled into Google's answer boxes and quoted by AI assistants, which is prime space you can't buy. We build the questions and answers into your pages.

Social Share Previews

When someone shares your page on Facebook, LinkedIn or in a text message, a preview image is generated from it. Left alone that's often blank or the wrong logo, which makes a shared link look broken. We make sure every page has a proper one.

Keeping the site alive

The unglamorous half. Done properly, you never have to think about your website at all.

Managed Hosting

Your site runs on Amazon's infrastructure with a global content network and its own managed database — the same class of setup large companies use. Most small-business sites sit on shared servers with hundreds of neighbours, which is why they're slow and why they go down together.

Daily Backups

Every site is one bad update, one hack, or one mistaken click from gone. Backups are stored off-site, so a problem with the server isn't a problem with your backups.

Updates

WordPress, plugins and themes need constant updating, and outdated plugins are the single most common way a site gets hacked. We handle it so you never have to think about it — and so an update never breaks the site quietly.

Uptime Monitoring

If your site goes down at 2am on a Saturday, you'd rather we knew than a customer did. We check continuously and act.

Security & SSL

We watch for the things that quietly go wrong: a certificate about to expire, debug mode left on, an unexpected plugin appearing, a version rolling backwards. Most site disasters were visible for weeks before anyone noticed.

Email Deliverability

Contact form enquiries that go to spam are lost customers you never know you had. We route your site's mail properly so it arrives.

Site Change Monitoring

We keep a record of what changes on your site and when. So when something shifts, the answer isn't a guess — we can see that a plugin was installed on the 12th and the problem started on the 14th.

Server Management

We run the servers your site lives on, so there's no third-party host to argue with when something's wrong. One phone call reaches the people who can actually fix it.

Support When Something Breaks

Raise a ticket and it reaches people who already know your site, rather than a queue meeting it for the first time. Every request is tracked, so nothing gets lost in an email thread and you can see where it stands.

Building things

We build the thing, not just market it.

Website Design & Development

We build the site, not just market it. That means the structure, the speed and the search foundations are right from the first day, instead of being retrofitted later by whoever inherits it.

WordPress Plugin Development

When your business needs something WordPress doesn't do, we write it. Booking systems, calculators, integrations, custom post types — built properly and maintained, not bolted on from a marketplace and abandoned.

Custom Software & Cloud

Internal tools, integrations between systems that don't talk to each other, client portals, automation. We build and run our own platform, so this isn't a sideline — it's what we do.

The rest of your marketing

Search is one channel. These are the rest, run by the same people.

Google Ads Management

Search results take time. Ads work immediately, and the two together work better than either alone — the keyword data from one improves the other. We manage the campaigns and report on them alongside everything else.

Content & Blogging

Regular, genuinely useful content is how a site earns authority in its subject, and how it stays current for both search engines and AI. We write it on an ongoing schedule.

Brand & Design

Logos, colours, typography and the full brand kit — the files you own and can hand to anyone. A business that looks consistent everywhere reads as bigger and more established than one that doesn't.

Print — In-House

Business cards, brochures, banners, direct mail, apparel. We own the press, so it doesn't go out to a broker, there's nobody to coordinate, and what gets printed matches what's on your website.

Website Copywriting

The words on your core pages do more selling than anything else on the site, and most business sites were written once, quickly, years ago. We rewrite them to say what you actually do and why someone should call.

Ad Landing Pages

Sending paid traffic to your homepage wastes most of it. A campaign needs a page built for what was clicked, and we build those alongside the ads rather than making them fit whatever already exists.

Let Us Take the Website Work Off Your Plate.

Tell us about your website, what is taking up your time and where you need support. We will review your needs and recommend a practical management plan with straightforward, custom pricing. There is no pressure and no long-term commitment.

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