✦ Tauranga’s #1 web & SEO studio ✦
We build sites people actually find. Real humans, real strategy, real results. For Bay of Plenty businesses who are sick of paying for websites no one visits.
Every site is built for performance, structure, and long-term growth. Fast load times, clean code, mobile-first, and SEO baked in from the start. We work with businesses across Tauranga and the Bay of Plenty who want a site that ranks on Google and actually earns its keep.
✦ A few of the businesses we’ve helped grow ✦
We don’t try to be everything. We build sites, get them found, keep them running. That’s it. That’s the deal.
Keyword research, technical audits, content strategy, link building. Search engine optimisation that builds real Google rankings, month after month, year after year.
Custom WordPress sites built from the ground up. No templates, no themes off the shelf. Fast, mobile-first, conversion-focused, SEO-ready from day one.
NZ-based hosting on fast local servers. Daily backups, security monitoring, WordPress updates, and a real human keeping everything running. Your website stays fast, secure, and online while you focus on your business. No chatbots, just real people.
Paid search management for clients with an SEO plan. We’ve built your landing pages, we know what converts. No wasted spend, no guesswork.
Most agencies design a pretty site, hand it over, disappear. Six months later you’re wondering why nobody’s finding you on Google. That’s not how we work. Here’s the actual sequence.
We start with what your customers are searching for, not what your competitors look like. Real keyword research, real conversations.
Custom WordPress, hand-coded, optimised from the first line. No templates. No bloat. Built for speed and search from day one.
Technical SEO, content strategy, link building. We don’t chase rankings, we build authority. The kind that compounds.
Monthly reporting, monthly optimisation, monthly conversations. We’re in your corner every single month. You always know exactly what’s happening with your Google rankings.
No overseas outsourcing. No cookie-cutter templates. No six-month contracts you can’t escape. Just smart, measurable work from a local Tauranga team who actually gives a damn.
Six months in, our organic traffic tripled. We've had a huge increase in web enquiries. Best money we've spent on the business.
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We get the same nine questions almost every week. So instead of making you fill out a form, here’s the honest answer to all of them. If yours isn’t here, we’re one message away.
Custom WordPress sites at Bay Web Co start at $3,500 + GST. That covers discovery, UX strategy, custom design, build, on-page SEO, and training. Most small-business sites land between $3,500 and $5,500 depending on page count and integrations. We send a fixed quote , no nasty surprises, no scope creep emails at 4pm on a Friday.
Most custom sites take 6-10 weeks from kickoff to launch. That includes a 2-week discovery + design phase, 3-5 weeks of build, and a final 1-2 weeks for content, QA, and training. Bigger sites take longer, smaller landers can ship in 3-4 weeks. We’ll give you a real timeline before you sign anything.
Both. Lots of clients come for one and add the other later. But the magic happens when we do them together , keyword research feeds the site architecture, the site is built around what people actually search for, and SEO results compound from day one instead of starting from scratch six months in.
Nothing , if you’re a tiny side hustle. For a real business, templates lock you into someone else’s structure, load slowly, are hard to optimise for search, and look like everyone else’s. We’ve migrated dozens of businesses off Wix and Squarespace and watched their rankings climb the moment they’re on a properly built WordPress site.
Yes. Completely. No proprietary builders, no lock-in, no “platform fees”. The domain is yours, the hosting account can be in your name, and the WordPress install is yours to take wherever you like. If you ever want to leave us, we’ll help you migrate. We’ve never had to, but the option is always on the table.
We’re based in Mt Maunganui and most of our clients are in the Bay of Plenty , Tauranga, Mount Maunganui, Papamoa, Whakatāne, Te Puke. We also work with businesses across NZ remotely. The local-first thing isn’t because we won’t travel , it’s because we genuinely like grabbing a coffee with the people we work for.
Monthly reports with real numbers , keyword positions, organic traffic, leads, conversions. We don’t hide behind “impression share” or “visibility scores”. You’ll see exactly which keywords are climbing, which pages are pulling traffic, and which campaigns are paying for themselves. If something isn’t working, we’ll tell you and change it.
Then you leave. No lock-in contracts, ever. SEO is month-to-month. Hosting is month-to-month. Web builds are project-based with milestone payments. We earn your business every month , if we stop earning it, you walk. We’ve built the company on this model since 2018 and it’s still how we operate.
Yes. Web builds are usually split into 3 payments , 40% to start, 40% at design sign-off, 20% at launch. For longer projects we can do monthly milestones. SEO and hosting are month-to-month. Talk to us about your cashflow situation , we’d rather find a way than lose a good client over payment timing.
The phone gets answered between 8am and 6pm, Mon–Fri. Or send us an email — we reply within one working day, every time.