Based in Manchester, working with businesses across the UK

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Web designer & SEO consultant in Manchester: Hi, I’m Karl. I’ll be doing the work.

I’m a web designer, developer and SEO consultant based in Manchester, working with businesses across England. I plan, design and build websites and online shops around how customers search and buy, and look after them once they’re live.

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Karl Chevalier
10+ yrsbuilding and optimising websites
Manchesterworking across England

Working with me

Web design and SEO, in one place.

Many businesses end up with a web designer who doesn’t really do SEO, and an SEO agency that has to ask someone else to change the website. I do both.

Looking for a website designer in Manchester usually means choosing between an agency and a freelancer. At an agency, your project tends to pass between several people: an account manager who takes the brief, a designer, a developer, and often a separate team for SEO. Every handover is a chance for something to get lost.

With me there are no handovers. The person you speak to first is the one who plans your website, designs it, writes the code, sets up the SEO and looks after it once it’s live. When you have a question, you message me, and the answer comes from someone who knows your website inside out.

You still get what a good agency delivers: a design made for your business rather than a template, a fast and secure website that works properly on a phone, and SEO built in from the first page.

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The person you’ll be dealing with

Background

Where my experience comes from

I’ve spent more than ten years building and improving websites, much of it in e-commerce, where fast pages, being easy to find and a smooth checkout make all the difference.

I was an SEO Manager at THG, working on LOOKFANTASTIC, Cult Beauty and Myprotein. I used crawling tools like Lumar, and automation, to find and fix the technical problems that hold very large websites back.

That’s why technical SEO is part of every website I build, not an extra. What decides whether a big online shop’s pages are found (how search engines crawl a website, which pages get indexed, how quickly they load on a phone) decides whether a local business is found too, and it’s far easier to get right from the start than to fix later.

Now I work for myself, designing, building and looking after websites for businesses, and for content creators, with the same attention to detail on every one.

Where I’ve worked

  • THG
  • LOOKFANTASTIC
  • Cult Beauty
  • Myprotein

How I work

What you can count on.

No account managers and no handovers: just the person who knows your website best.

  • You deal with me

    From the first chat to launch day and every change after, you talk to the person doing the work.

  • Designed for your business

    Every website is designed from scratch around your customers. No templates and no page builders.

  • SEO from the first page

    Page titles, structure, speed and structured data are part of the build, not something added later.

  • A fixed price, agreed first

    You’ll know exactly what you’re paying before any work starts.

  • Honest advice, in plain English

    No jargon. If something isn’t worth doing for your business, I’ll tell you.

  • There after launch

    Hosting, care and improvements from the person who built your website.

Skills

What I know well

  • Website design
  • Web development
  • Technical SEO
  • Local SEO
  • Page speed
  • E-commerce
  • Shopify
  • Stripe payments
  • Analytics
  • Structured data
  • Site migrations
  • Accessibility
  • Hosting and security
  • Social media
I build websites for creators, too

The creator side of my business has its own packages and prices for content creators. Websites for creators

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See what I could build for you.

Or get in touch and tell me what you need.

Websites and prices

Brochure, Business and E-commerce websites, each planned around what your business needs, with starting prices.

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SEO

Technical and local SEO, for a website I build or the one you already have.

More about SEO

My work

Websites I’ve designed and built, and the thinking behind each one.

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Let’s talk

Let’s talk about your website.

Book a free 15-minute chat, by phone or video, or send me a message. I’ll reply personally, usually the same working day.

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