Web design & SEO · Chichester
Websites and search for Chichester and the district around it.
A cathedral city, a harbour, the Downs and a long rural district behind them. A Chichester website usually has to serve visitors, locals and the villages at once.
Werehouse Media is a web design and SEO studio working with businesses in Chichester, West Sussex, England, and across the wider Chichester district. Websites start at £995 and multi-page builds at £1,495, local SEO runs from £695 a month, and the SEO audit is normally £495 and free for a limited time. You own the domain, the code and every account outright.
We are based in Uckfield, East Sussex, about 39 miles east of Chichester in a straight line, so the work runs remotely with meetings in Chichester by arrangement. Prices are the same as anywhere else.
Who is searching in Chichester?
Three groups, and a site that serves one well often fails the other two. Visitors, here for the theatre, the harbour, Goodwood's events or the Downs, search on a phone for somewhere to eat, stay or book. Residents search for the trades, clinics and professional firms they need, and the district is getting older: Chichester's residents aged 65 and over grew by 20.8% between the 2011 and 2021 censuses, against 9.1% growth in the population as a whole, to around 124,100 (ONS, Census 2021). And the villages search by their own names, not by Chichester's.
An older customer base changes the brief more than most owners expect: larger text that holds up on a phone, a phone number that is easy to tap, prices stated plainly, and no pop-up between the visitor and the answer. Two of those, a page that works properly on a phone and no intrusive pop-ups, are also what Google's page experience guidance asks for.
SEO in Chichester: what it takes
The city centre is compact, so the map pack for "near me" searches there is decided over a small area, and a business a few streets from the searcher has the advantage. Outside the city the district is wide and rural, and a single Business Profile cannot cover it: villages from Selsey to Midhurst are better reached with honest pages for the places you genuinely serve. Seasonal businesses need their pages and profile updated well ahead of the season, because search demand moves before the visitors do.
What we would do first for most Chichester businesses: complete and correct the Google Business Profile, ask every customer for a review, publish prices, and write one real page per service. The local SEO checklist sets out the order.
What it costs
Prices do not change with your postcode, and every project is fixed in writing before it starts.
| What | Price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Website | From £995 | Multi-page builds from £1,495; a shop, bookings or logins from £5,000 |
| SEO audit and fix list | Normally £495, free for a limited time | What is holding the current site back, in priority order |
| Local SEO | From £695/month | Business Profile, reviews, town and service pages, no minimum term |
| Website maintenance | From £49/month | Including sites we did not build |
Every published price is on the price list. For the county as a whole, see web design and SEO in West Sussex and SEO in Sussex; nearby, Worthing and Horsham have pages of their own.
Chichester questions
Straight answers.
Do you work with businesses in Chichester?
Yes. We are based in Uckfield, East Sussex, so the work runs remotely, with meetings in Chichester by arrangement. Distance changes neither the price nor the method: websites from £995, local SEO from £695 a month.
Can you help a seasonal business in Chichester?
Yes, and the timing matters more than anything else. Search demand rises weeks before the season, so pages, offers and the Business Profile need updating ahead of it. A maintenance plan from £49 a month covers those seasonal changes without a new project each time.
Do you cover the villages around Chichester?
Yes, including Selsey, Bosham, Midhurst and Petworth. A business serving several villages usually needs a page for each place it genuinely works, rather than one page listing them all, because people search by their own village's name.
How much does a website cost in Chichester?
The same as anywhere else: from £995 for a focused site, £1,495 for a multi-page build, and from £5,000 for a shop, bookings or customer logins, fixed in writing before work starts. What a website costs across the UK market is set out in our cost guide.
Next step
Tell us what you sell in Chichester.
You will get an honest answer within one working day and a fixed price in writing, with no follow-up sequence.