Supporting service
Website Design in Houston
We design and build websites for Houston businesses with two jobs in mind: being readable by search engines and AI assistants, and making the next step obvious for a person deciding whether to contact you. Structure, speed, clarity and contact paths come before decoration.
Web design is a supporting service here rather than our lead offering. Our primary work is SEO, AI search optimization and social media. A site we build is designed to carry that work, not to sit still and look nice.
Who it is for
Is this the right fit?
- Businesses with no website, or one built on a platform that cannot be maintained
- Owners whose site was built by a relative or a template in 2016
- Companies whose site looks acceptable but produces almost no inquiries
- Businesses starting SEO who need a foundation capable of supporting it
Problems this work solves
The site is slow on a phone
Most local searches happen on mobile. Oversized images and heavy page builders push loading past the point where visitors leave, and speed is a factor in search too.
Contact is buried
A phone number in a footer image, a form four clicks deep, no tap-to-call. Every extra step loses people who were ready to reach out.
One page for six services
If everything you offer lives in one paragraph on the homepage, there is no page for a search engine to rank and no page that answers a specific customer's question.
Built in a way search cannot read
Text baked into images, navigation that is not real links, content that only appears after scripts run. All of it makes the site harder to crawl and harder for AI assistants to summarize correctly.
What is included
Planning
- Page structure based on what visitors are trying to do and what people search
- A service page for each thing you actually sell
- Wireframes before visual design so structure is agreed early
Build
- Mobile-first responsive layouts tested at phone, tablet and desktop widths
- Fast loading: optimized modern image formats, lean scripts, stable layout
- Accessible markup: landmarks, labeled forms, keyboard support, visible focus, adequate contrast
- Semantic HTML with a logical heading order on every page
Content
- Writing in your own language, based on interviews with you
- Real photography from your business wherever possible
- Clear contact paths on every page including tap-to-call
Search foundation
- Unique titles, descriptions and canonicals per page
- Structured data matching visible content
- XML sitemap, robots.txt and Search Console setup
- Analytics with conversion events for calls and form submissions
How the work runs
What you sell, who buys it, what they ask before buying, and what the site has to accomplish.
Sitemap and page-by-page outline. Getting this right prevents most of the expensive changes later.
Visual design applied to agreed structure, then built and tested across devices.
Redirects from any old URLs, indexing checks, analytics verification, and a walkthrough so you can maintain it.
Expectations
What you can realistically expect
- Content gathering is almost always the longest part of a website project, not the build.
- A new site does not rank on its own. It removes the obstacles so SEO work can produce results.
- Speed and accessibility improvements are measurable immediately after launch.
- We do not promise a specific number of leads from a redesign.
Pricing
How this is priced
Website projects are quoted by page count, content needs and functionality. We will also tell you when repairing your current site is the better spend.
Our published pricing covers search work: a $1,599 SEO setup and $899 per month for ongoing management. Everything on this page is quoted separately after a review, so you are paying for the scope your business actually needs.
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Should I redesign my site or fix the one I have?
If the structure is sound and the platform is maintainable, targeted repair costs less and gets results sooner. Rebuild when the platform is the obstacle, when the site cannot be made fast or accessible, or when the structure cannot support the pages you need.
Do I own the website?
Yes. Your domain, hosting, content and site belong to you. Nothing we build should hold your business hostage.
Will a new website hurt my current rankings?
It can, if URLs change without proper redirects or existing content is thrown out. That is why we audit and map redirects before launch.
Can you write the content?
Yes, based on interviews with you. You review everything before it goes live.
Who is behind this page. Written and maintained by the My Social Deals team in Houston, Texas. My Social Deals LLC handles SEO, AI search optimization, social media and website work for Houston-area businesses. Questions about anything here can go through the contact page.
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