Web development in the Comox Valley. Three towns, one market.
Valley Edge is based in Port Alberni and works up Highway 4 and the Inland Island Highway. There is no valley office. What there is: a custom site built for the business, and someone still answering when the season turns and the hours change.
$350/month · no build fee · your domain in your name
- Fixed scope, in writing
- Domain and hosting in your name
- Seasonal changes included
- No build fee
Your customer types Courtenay. Your sign says Comox.
The City of Courtenay is the commercial centre. The Town of Comox sits across the estuary. The Village of Cumberland is up the hill. Royston, Union Bay, Merville and Black Creek fill in around them. Three incorporated communities inside one regional district, and to a search engine they are three different places, so the same customer looking for the same business types a different word depending on which side of the river they live on.
The wrong fix is a page per town
Three near-identical pages with the place name swapped is the oldest trick in local search and the one Google is best at catching. It does not underperform quietly. It puts the whole domain at risk, including the pages that were honest. This page exists as one page about a region for exactly that reason.
The right fix is boring
One real address, said once. One honest sentence about where you actually go. A Google Business Profile whose service area matches that sentence rather than covering the whole Island because it was free to tick.
No promises about position
Nobody can guarantee where you land in a search result. What can be promised is a site that is fast, readable, correct about where you are, and not carrying anything that gets you penalised.
A base, a mountain and a coal town. None of them behave like a high street.
The Comox Valley does not have one economy with one calendar. It has several, running on different clocks, and a website that ignores that is wrong for most of the year.
19 Wing Comox
A Canadian Forces base at the north end of the valley, staffed by people who are posted in and posted out. A share of your customers has been here two years and will be gone in three. Word of mouth has a shorter half-life here than in a town where everyone grew up together, which means new arrivals find you by searching or they do not find you.
Mount Washington
A ski season and a summer bike season above Courtenay, and a shoulder in between. Seasonal hours, opening dates and closure notices are the pages that go stale first and cost the most when they do. Changing them four times a year is included in the monthly price rather than billed as a job each time.
Cumberland and the trails
A former coal town with a mountain-bike network on its doorstep and a customer who arrives on a Saturday, muddy, on a phone, with one bar of signal. That is a different visitor from the one walking down Fifth Street in Courtenay on a Tuesday, and the site has to work for both.
The valley skews older than the Island average. Type size is a revenue decision.
A retirement destination is a market with reading glasses in it. Small grey text on a lighter grey background is not a style choice in that market. It is a customer who gave up and called someone else.
A custom website of up to five pages, with hosting, domain, SSL, backups, updates and small changes included.
See the full plan- Contrast is read off the rendered page by a check that fails the build, not eyeballed in a mockup
- Layout measured at five widths, down to 360px
- Chrome and Safari both, on every change
- Phone numbers and addresses that are tappable, not pictures of text
- Automation and AI for the work that repeats every week — AI and automation
- A first version of the idea that has been a document for a year — apps and MVPs
- IT on its own, across the Island — IT consulting on Vancouver Island
Do you have an office in the Comox Valley?
No. Valley Edge is based in Port Alberni and reaches the valley up Highway 4 and the Inland Island Highway. Scoping, building, launching and changes afterwards are done remotely.
Do you list Courtenay, Comox and Cumberland separately?
No, and that is deliberate. Three near-identical pages with the town name swapped is the pattern search engines penalise. One page about the valley, and an honest service area on your Google Business Profile, does the same job without the risk.
What does $350 a month include?
A custom website of up to five pages, plus hosting, your domain, SSL, daily backups, security updates and small ongoing changes. There is no separate build fee.
Do I own the website?
Yes. Your domain is registered in your name, and the website remains yours.
Tell us what the valley needs to see.
Which town the sign says, what changes with the season, and who you are actually trying to reach. Tell us that and we will tell you what shipping it takes.
info@valleyedgeconsulting.io · 778-488-8618