Ethical website design, development, SEO, and practical mentoring for thriving UK small businesses with purpose
The Smart Bear offers eco-conscious small businesses and charities with ethical website design and development, website maintenance, and SEO – from a pay-as-you-go support service to a fully done-for-you solution, to suit your budget and values.
Let’s get your website sorted!
Whether you need a new website or help with an existing one, we’re here to help
What would you like to achieve with your website?
A new, more impactful, website
‘Done for you’ Website Design to Suit your Business and your Budget that’s Inclusive and Sustainable
An organisations’ website must be their wisest investment; it’s a business asset, and a professional modern website will help you stand out in a competitive market. But sometimes you just want someone to do it all for you, and that’s why we have a ‘Done for you’ package.
We’ll help you with the wording, the images and the customer journey to help your website convert visitors into customers.
We build our websites so they are effortless to edit, and easy to develop in the future but also as sustainable and inclusive as possible from the start.
We believe websites should grow as your business does without having to start from scratch if you pivot, and we always build with ethical values so we will never oversell services you don’t need, whilst also considering accessibility and sustainability to help you spend responsibly.
If you don’t need a full ‘done for you’ service, we also have a range of ‘pay by the hour’ services as well as smaller packages, or a pay-by-the-hour option, to suit a range of budgets.
Help with an existing website
Increase your sustainability, add accessibility, upgrade your site, improve the style, increase traffic and conversions, or simply get some help with a project…
Website development and care that works for you and not against your budget.
Whether your site needs a small tweak or a significant overhaul, we can help. From boosting traffic and improving conversions, to fixing that one thing that’s been quietly driving you mad – we’ll take an honest look and tell you exactly what we’d recommend, and why.
We can help with things like:
- Making your site faster, cleaner, and easier to navigate
- Improving functionality so managing it doesn’t feel like a chore
- Making it more accessible and ethical, because good websites work for everyone
- Fixing bugs, broken elements, or anything that’s quietly letting you down
- Giving it a more professional, polished look without a full rebuild.
No hard sell. No pushing you towards solutions you don’t need. We’ll give you a clear quote, a range of options, and let you decide what’s right for your budget.
And if you’d rather hand over the keys entirely? Our monthly website care and maintenance packages take the stress off your plate completely – updates, security, backups, and all the unglamorous-but-important stuff, handled for you.
SMART WEBSITE HELP
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Our subjects cover accessibility, website design, WordPress, blogging, content creation, digital sustainability, building your first website, maintaining websites, websites on a budget and much more!
Help getting found on Search Engines like Google, and mentions on Ai
Affordable Keyword Optimisation, Search Engine Help and Improving your AI Mentions
If your website gets traffic but not enquiries, or you’re simply not showing up where your customers are searching – we can help. That starts with getting to the root of the issue and building a strategy that actually makes sense for your business.
Search has changed. It’s no longer just about ranking on Google. AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity are becoming the new search engines – and a growing number of your potential clients are finding businesses through them instead. That’s where Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) comes in: making sure your website and content are structured so that AI tools understand, trust, and reference your business too.
Alongside that, traditional SEO still matters. That might mean technical fixes – making sure your site loads quickly, displays properly on mobile, and doesn’t have broken links holding it back. Or it could be more content-led: keyword research, competitor analysis, local visibility, backlink building, or refreshing the copy and design so visitors actually convert.
We offer training and mentoring, one-off overhauls, and ongoing monthly packages – all without blinding you with jargon or charging you the earth.
WordPress, Website, and SEO Training for your Business or Charity
Training and Mentoring that Actually Fits your Organisation
Forget one-size-fits-all courses that leave you more confused than when you started. Our bespoke training is built around you – your platform, your pace, and the specific digital headaches you actually need solving.
Whether you want to get to grips with WordPress, make sense of Google Analytics (including GA4), understand SEO and accessibility, or get more out of your CRM or digital tools, our qualified trainers will guide you through it without the overwhelm.
No jargon. Just practical, confidence-building support from people who genuinely want to see your business thrive.
Impact-driven, Sustainable and Inclusive website design, without any hidden charges
Why choose The Smart Bear Digital?
The Smart Bear is a business website design and development company now based in Stalybridge, within the borough of Tameside, Manchester, having moved from Urmston, Trafford. We’re a small team so you’ll always know your point of contact and we pride ourselves on being honest and trustworthy. We understand how scary it can be in a ‘techy’ world where the experts try to blind their clients with science; so, we cut the fluff – avoiding using jargon and endeavour to explain everything in plain English.
Our mission is simple, we want to help facilitate small businesses, B Corps, charities, and not-for-profits to be more ethical and sustainable, whilst looking better and working better online – and our ethos is to never oversell, confuse people with redundant technical jargon, or over-complicate the process.
We know how to design impactful websites using platforms like WordPress, Squarespace, and Shopify, and we’re here to help create good looking sustainable and accessible websites of a professional standard; but at an affordable price by removing anything unnecessary, or anything not required by the client. We feel there is a huge gap between the prices of big-client-big-budget web agencies, and the little guy who wants to be more responsible but who are on a tight budget and working hard to make their organisation work. And, as we work independently (we’re a small business too!), our overheads are kept low and we can pass these savings on.
We keep our website designs clean, simple and functional whilst also retaining a modern feel, making them easy for the client to edit and develop themselves instead of being tied to using our services if they don’t want to.
We specialise in helping like-minded entrepreneurs achieve their goals. Combining our decade plus of website experience with newer developments such as search engine optimisation/marketing – and mobile first responsive websites – so our clients obtain a business website which helps to grow their business or organisation.
Our values are the heart of everything we do so if this sounds like a company you want to help to build your new website or modify/rebrand an existing website, then book in for a free consultation to find out how we can help.
We are super nice, straight-talking, no-nonsense, professional, creative, experienced, flexible, oh! and….we’re a purpose-led small business striving for sustainability and inclusivity, too!
Suzi Brown, Founder of The Smart Bear Digital
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