Criccieth's castle, beaches and cafés bring visitors through the summer, and the town keeps busy with locals the rest of the year. Either way, people look you up on their phone before they walk through the door.
I'm based in Barmouth and up past Porthmadog most weeks, so a coffee in Criccieth, Llanystumdwy or Pentrefelin is no trouble.
Criccieth is a quieter seaside town, built around the castle on its headland and the two beaches either side of it. It doesn't get the crowds of the bigger resorts, and that's the point: a lot of its visitors are couples and older holidaymakers who come back year after year and stay in the hotels and guest houses along the front.
It's a town with some well known names, too. Cadwaladers ice cream started in a Criccieth shop in 1927, and David Lloyd George grew up just along the road in Llanystumdwy, where his museum is. Visitors come looking for those, then look for somewhere to eat and stay nearby.
For local businesses, repeat customers matter more here than almost anywhere. Someone who stayed with you five years ago will search your name when they plan the next trip, so a site that's easy to find and easy to book from directly keeps that relationship yours instead of a booking site's. The guest houses along Marine Terrace and the cafés under the castle live on exactly that kind of loyalty.
It's 2026. Customers expect you to have a website, and they judge you by it. Yet most small businesses see theirs as a cost that never pays back. When someone lands on your site, it has three jobs, in this order.
Get these three right and your website starts bringing in work.
Every site I build is planned around your business and its goal. Not a template with your logo on.
Yes, to keep them booking with you directly. Returning guests search your name, and if a booking site comes up first they often book through it and you pay the commission. Your own site, showing up for your own name, stops that.
Yes, and it should. Those are some of the first things people filter for when they search in Criccieth. I make them clear on the page and in what Google reads.
Yes. Your site can say exactly which villages you're in and serve, so you show up in Criccieth searches as well as your own.
Yes. I'm based in Barmouth and work with businesses in Criccieth, Llanystumdwy, Pentrefelin and Garndolbenmaen. I'll come to you.
Often, yes. Send me the link and I'll tell you honestly whether it's worth keeping or starting fresh.
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He recently carried out a review of my business website, followed by a number of updates and improvements. Before starting the work, he took the precaution of creating a full backup and subsequently identified and resolved several issues that had previously gone unnoticed, with a view to improving the website's SEO and visibility in AI-driven searches.
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