Websites & local SEO · Scarborough
This is what the web looks like in Scarborough: 2,685 listings, 2,197 working websites behind them, 152 links that go nowhere. We build and run sites for businesses here, and the numbers below come from our own survey rather than a report someone else wrote.
Websites from $590 · paid after delivery
We build and look after websites for businesses in Scarborough. A one-page site for a solo operator is $590; a business with a crew of three to ten pays $1,190; a legal, medical or financial practice $3,900.
No deposit and no contract: you pay once the site is built and you have seen it, and the monthly part ($129–$990 for hosting, edits, your Google listing and search work) can be cancelled any month.
Scarborough is the 4th largest of the 26 places we surveyed, with 2,685 listings against 3,173 in Mississauga. Scarborough is part of Toronto; we count the businesses that give Scarborough as their address. Every site behind these listings was opened by hand — nothing here is modelled.
By trade
A dentist and a plumber are not competing for the same attention and their numbers are not comparable. Each trade below has its own page with its own survey — review medians, platform mix and the faults we actually found.
| Trade in Scarborough | Businesses | No site | No mobile | Median reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dentists | 70 | 1 | 1 | 229 |
| Car dealerships | 69 | 2 | 0 | 153 |
| Medical practices | 66 | 6 | 0 | 172 |
| Law firms | 61 | 2 | 2 | 69 |
| Accountants | 60 | 2 | 2 | 58 |
| Real estate agents | 60 | 2 | 0 | 48 |
| Driving schools | 60 | 7 | 0 | 183 |
| Gyms | 59 | 4 | 0 | 180 |
| Carpenters | 56 | 6 | 3 | 12 |
| Travel agencies | 55 | 12 | 2 | 29 |
| Metal fabricators | 54 | 15 | 5 | 6 |
| Plumbers | 53 | 3 | 0 | 41 |
| Physiotherapists | 53 | 1 | 1 | 120 |
| Furniture stores | 53 | 7 | 1 | 218 |
| Photographers | 52 | 9 | 0 | 43 |
| Financial advisors | 51 | 10 | 1 | 2 |
| HVAC contractors | 50 | 2 | 1 | 53 |
| Renovation contractors | 49 | 1 | 1 | 21 |
| Electricians | 44 | 10 | 2 | 11 |
| Cabinet makers | 31 | 2 | 3 | 24 |
| Veterinary clinics | 27 | 2 | 0 | 315 |
What Scarborough is built on
Detected from the pages themselves across 2,197 Scarborough websites. 115 run on a free or entry-level builder and 5 are still served by software that has been discontinued for years. 189 carry a copyright line from 1996 or earlier.
What actually breaks
Across the 2,197 Scarborough sites we opened, these are the faults that turned up most often. None of them is visible to the owner, which is exactly why they survive for years.
What you get
49 of the 2,197 sites we opened in Scarborough have no mobile layout at all. Most people looking for a local business here are on a phone, often standing somewhere inconvenient. We design for that first.
Categories, service areas, hours, photos and the structured data that puts your address and rating straight into results. 46 Scarborough listings do not even publish opening hours. The median business here has 53 reviews — we will tell you honestly where you stand.
189 sites in Scarborough carry a copyright line five years old or more, which usually means nobody has opened the admin panel since launch. The monthly fee exists so that does not happen to yours.
Each of these has its own page for Scarborough, built from the same survey but looking at a different part of it.
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Thinking about a build rather than the numbers? What a small business site costs and includes · for contractors · for dental practices.
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Questions
Yes. We work across the entire Greater Toronto Area, including Scarborough, where we surveyed 2,685 listings. Everything is done remotely — calls, email and a live preview link you can open while we build — so there is no need to meet in person unless you want to.
445 of the 2,685 listings we checked have no website attached to their Google profile at all, and another 152 link to one that does not load or has been parked. On top of that, 449 have a site that works but has visibly not been touched in years.
Between $590 and $3,900 depending on the size of the business and how many pages it needs. You pay once it is built and you have seen it, not before. After launch it is $129 to $990 a month for hosting, edits, your Google listing and ongoing SEO, cancellable any month.
The Google map pack can move within weeks. Ranking in regular search results for competitive terms realistically takes three to six months of consistent work. Anyone promising faster is selling you something.
Two minutes
Everything above came from opening real websites. Yours takes ten seconds: we load it the way a customer would and say what we find, including when the honest answer is that nothing needs doing.
No pitch deck and no discovery call. Tell us the trade and the city, and we will say what we would do and what it costs.