Website design for local businesses that turns searches into calls.
Merto builds fast, answer-shaped websites for local service businesses across Canada: pages that answer the questions your customers actually search, consistent name and address details engines can verify, and a tap-to-call path on every screen. From $247 CAD a month, run for you, with no contract to sign.
Why isn't your Google Business Profile enough?
Because a listing can get you seen and still lose you the call. These are the four gaps we close for local businesses.
A Google Business Profile alone cannot close
Your profile gets you into the map pack, but it is a listing, not a pitch. It cannot walk someone through your services, answer their specific question, or show proof the way a page built for that job can. Profile and website work as a pair.
Directories own the relationship
Directories and booking platforms put you next to your competitors, charge for placement, and keep the customer data. Every search that ends on a directory is a customer relationship you rented instead of owned.
AI engines cannot verify you without a home
When someone asks an AI engine for a recommendation, it looks for a business it can verify: consistent name, address, and phone, services stated in plain text, structured data underneath. No website means there is nothing to check, so the recommendation goes to someone it can confirm.
Slow mobile pages lose the call
Most local searches happen on a phone, often at the exact moment of need. A site that takes seconds to load, or hides the number below a wall of widgets, sends that call to the next result.
How do we turn searches into calls?
Answer-shaped pages, details engines can verify, and nothing slow between the search and the phone. Here is what that means in practice.
Pages shaped like answers
Each service page opens with the question a customer would actually ask and a plain answer right under it, then the detail. That shape is what search and AI engines lift, and it is also just clearer for the human deciding whether to call you.
Details that agree everywhere
We keep your name, address, phone, and hours identical across your site, your structured data, and your Google Business Profile, because engines treat consistency as proof you are real. Then we put your reviews and credentials where a first-time visitor looks for them.
Fast, static, and built to be called
Your pages ship as fast static files with the phone number one tap away on every screen. No plugin stack, no page-builder bloat, nothing between the search and the call.
Where can you see the work?
We haven't published a local-business case study yet, and we won't invent one. What we can show you today: the real client work, and the demo designs.
Pricing
No contract. Cancel by text. Keep your domain.
From $247 CAD/month
Four documented builds, all four live.
See full pricingWhat local owners ask us
Is my Google Business Profile enough?
It is necessary and not sufficient. The profile wins map-pack visibility, but it cannot hold a page per service, answer detailed questions, or give AI engines a website to verify you against. The businesses that win local search run both, pointed at each other.
I'm not a contractor or artist. Is Merto for me?
Yes. We build for owner-operated businesses and independents across Canada: cleaners, clinics, groomers, studios, accountants, anyone whose customers find them by searching locally. The trades and artist pages on this site exist because that is where our first clients came from, not because that is the boundary.
Do I have to write the content myself?
No. We draft every page from a conversation about your business and whatever you already have: your profile, reviews, photos, old site. You review and correct everything before it goes live, because you are the expert on your business and we are the experts on the shape.
What does it cost?
Merto starts at $247 CAD a month: the site, hosting, your domain registered in your name, Google and AI search setup, and four edits a month by text. No contract, and pricing for anything beyond that is shared with your preview.
How is this different from a site I build myself on Wix or Squarespace?
Those are good tools if you have the hours and the patience. Merto is done for you: we design, write, and run the site, handle the search and AI setup most DIY builds skip, and make changes when you text us. You stay the owner; we do the work.
Want the longer answers?
Text us what you do and where.
We build the preview first. No contract, no setup invoice.
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