Web Design & Digital Marketing in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire is enormous, thinly populated and easy to underestimate. There are 1.1 million people spread across nearly 7,000 square kilometres, and the businesses that serve them have the same ambitions as businesses anywhere else. They just have further to drive.
We've been building websites and running marketing for Lincolnshire businesses since 2016, and the county is where most of our work still comes from.
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What drives the county
Food, first. Lincolnshire grows wheat, barley, sugar beet, potatoes and a large share of the country's vegetables, and processes a lot of it too: the National Centre for Food Manufacturing sits in the Holbeach Food Enterprise Zone, and firms like Bakkavör and Greencore have big operations around Spalding. Engineering, from Siemens in Lincoln to the diesel heritage in Grantham. The RAF, with Coningsby, Waddington, Cranwell and Digby all in the county. Tourism along the coast and in the market towns. And the Lincolnshire Co-op, which about a quarter of the county's population belongs to.
Then the thousands of small businesses: trades, shops, cafes, solicitors, accountants and farms. That's who we mostly work for.
Why a county-wide agency is different
A Lincolnshire business often serves a wide area. A roofer in Sleaford might work from Lincoln to Boston. A wedding venue near Grantham draws couples from Nottingham and Peterborough. So local SEO here is rarely about one town. It's about setting up your Google Business Profile, your service area and your website so you show up across the whole patch you cover, without spreading so thin that you rank nowhere.
We know the county's towns, its roads and the way people here search, because we live here. We also won't work for two competing businesses in the same service area, which in a county this size we define carefully with you.
Web design and marketing across Lincolnshire: your questions
Which parts of Lincolnshire do you cover?
All of it. We're based in Grantham and work with businesses from Stamford to Louth and Boston to Gainsborough, including Lincoln, Sleaford, Spalding, Skegness, Horncastle, Market Rasen, Bourne and Holbeach.
Lincolnshire is huge. How do you handle local SEO for a business that covers half the county?
Carefully. A roofer in Sleaford who works from Lincoln to Boston can't rank everywhere from one Google Business Profile, because distance from the searcher matters. We set your service area to match where you actually work, then build a small number of genuinely useful pages for the towns that bring you the most work, rather than fifty thin ones Google will ignore.
Do you understand agricultural and food businesses?
Yes. Lincolnshire grows a large share of the country's vegetables and processes a lot of it too, around Spalding, Holbeach and Boston. Growers, packers and suppliers usually sell to buyers rather than the public, so their websites need to look credible to a procurement team, not just a passing customer.
What about seasonal businesses on the coast?
Skegness, Mablethorpe and the coast are busiest in summer, and most of the searching happens months before. We plan Google Ads and content around the booking season, and make sure your site is fast enough for people looking on a phone from a caravan park with a patchy signal.
Do you come out to rural businesses?
Yes. A lot of Lincolnshire businesses are miles from the nearest town, and we'd rather see your farm shop, workshop or venue than talk about it over the phone.
Is broadband a problem for websites in rural Lincolnshire?
It can be for your customers. Parts of the county still have slow or patchy connections, so a heavy website loses people before it's loaded. We build lean, hand-coded sites partly for that reason.
Getting hold of us
Floor 1, Lindpet House, Grantham, NG31 6LJ. Ring 0800 699 0037 or email hello@codesky.co.uk. We come to you.
Written by Jordan Heppleston, with local SEO input from Talia Rhodes.