Web design, Markham Unionville, Markham Village, Milliken
Web design in Markham, for two kinds of search.
Your customers may read English, Chinese, or both. The site starts in English: five pages, live 10 business days after your content arrives.
The price
Same in Markham
- Website build, 5 pages
- $2,750 plus tax
- Care plan, entry tier
- $99/mo plus tax
- Written website audit
- $49 plus tax
Canadian dollars. Tax is added at checkout or on the invoice.
Audit: Not available to businesses billed in Quebec.
Markham, specifically
Where business happens in Markham.
Markham's businesses sit in three quite different settings. Along Highway 7 and the 404, office parks hold technology companies and the accountants, lawyers and engineering firms that work for them. Then come the plazas: First Markham Place, Pacific Mall at Kennedy and Steeles, and dozens of smaller strips, full of restaurants, bakeries, tutoring centers, dental offices, travel agents and herbal shops in units that share one parking lot. Unionville's Main Street is the third, a heritage strip of cafes, galleries and boutiques that draws weekend visitors from across York Region, with Markham Village doing the same on a smaller scale. The newer east side, Cornell and Cathedraltown, is mostly homes, and there renovation, landscaping, cleaning and childcare businesses compete street by street.
Neighborhoods
- Unionville
- Markham Village
- Milliken
- Cornell
- Berczy Village
- Cathedraltown
How search works here Two languages, two markets
How customers find a business in Markham.
Organic results
Many households here speak Cantonese or Mandarin at home, and search splits along the same line. A query typed in Chinese returns a different set of businesses from the same query in English, because Google weighs the language of a page as well as its location. Recommendations also travel through WeChat groups and Xiaohongshu, where Google never sees them. A business that wants both markets needs pages written in both languages, not a translate button, and a profile that lists the languages spoken, which the profile checklist covers.
The map pack
In a Markham plaza a dozen businesses can share one street address, so the unit number does real work. Google places the pin from the address you verify, and a customer standing in the parking lot opens Maps to find which door is yours. To enter the pack, verify the full address with the unit, choose the narrowest true category, and add storefront photos taken from the lot. Reviews written in Chinese count toward the profile the same way English ones do, so ask everyone. Name the plaza on the site, because people search for it.
Designs to start from
Designs for two kinds of business common here.
Questions
Asked in Markham
- Should my site have a Chinese version?
- If many of your customers would rather read Chinese, yes, as separate pages rather than a translate button, so Google can index them. Decide first between Simplified and Traditional characters: families from Hong Kong and Taiwan tend to read Traditional, newer arrivals from mainland China read Simplified. The fixed-price build is one language, so a second one is scoped separately on the call.
- My shop is inside Pacific Mall. Can it have its own listing on Google Maps?
- Yes, if it has its own name, its own staff and its own hours. Enter the mall's street address with your unit number, and keep the mall's name out of your business name, since Google wants the name on your sign and nothing added. The contact page on your site should say which entrance and which floor, because the mall is large enough to get lost in.
- Do my customers find businesses on Google or on WeChat?
- Both, and often one after the other. A recommendation in a WeChat group or a Xiaohongshu post often ends with someone searching your name on Google to check the address, the hours and the reviews. I do not run WeChat accounts. What I make sure of is that the search after the recommendation lands on a site and a profile that agree with each other.
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