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The Marketing District.
Process

A clear path from idea to ranked, converting website

No discovery theatre, no black boxes. Six deliberate steps that put search and speed first — and keep you in the loop the whole way through.

The method

Six steps, start to finish

We plan for search from the first sketch and engineer for speed from the first line of code. Here's what each stage actually involves.

  1. 01

    Discover

    We get clear on your business, your customers and what a win actually looks like. No discovery theatre — a focused conversation that surfaces the goals, the constraints and the searches you need to win.

  2. 02

    Plan & architect

    Before any design, we map the sitemap, the URL structure and the internal linking. This is the part most agencies skip and the part that decides whether you'll ever rank. We plan for search from the first sketch.

  3. 03

    Design

    We design a bespoke system — not a template — around real content and the journey to conversion. Fast, accessible and distinctly yours, pressure-tested on real devices before a line of production code.

  4. 04

    Build

    We engineer the site to render its content on the server, load in well under two seconds, and pass Core Web Vitals on mobile. Clean, semantic, structured-data-rich code that search engines and screen readers both understand.

  5. 05

    Rank & convert

    Launch is the start. We handle technical SEO, earn links the right way, and tune the journey so more of your traffic turns into enquiries and orders. Then we measure, and do more of what works.

  6. 06

    Care

    Websites are living things. We keep yours fast, secure and current with proactive maintenance, monitoring and a real person to call — so it stays an asset instead of drifting into a liability.

Why it works

The discipline shows up in the numbers

A good process isn't bureaucracy — it's how you avoid the expensive mistakes that leave a site slow, invisible or impossible to maintain.

9 yrs
designing and ranking websites that earn their keep
60+
Shopify and custom builds shipped for UK businesses
95+
Lighthouse performance scores as standard, not an upsell
100%
of sites built to be read with JavaScript switched off
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