Riverforge is a web design and digital marketing agency serving Andover: website design and development, SEO, Google Ads and paid social, led by Peter Claridge from Reading. We are about 50 minutes away and happy to meet in person.
Manufacturers and suppliers who win work from trade buyers across the South and need credible, clear websites.
Rural and village-based organisations
Estates, services and village businesses serving a wide area where customers often search from outside the town.
Hospitality and independent retail
Pubs, hotels and shops that need current listings, photography and booking routes.
Riverforge is a web design and digital marketing agency for Andover organisations. Whether you are a new business setting up your first website or an established firm replacing an old one, a website is the start. These services help it get found, bring in enquiries and keep working, and you can use one or all of them together.
Website design and development in Andover
Andover's industrial and rural organisations often sell to buyers elsewhere, so the site should explain what you do clearly to someone who has never heard of you.
Strategy, design and build for organisations that need to be taken seriously. A written specification, a fixed price and one senior lead from the first call to launch day.
A fixed price agreed from a written specification before we start.
A site your team can edit on WordPress or Webflow, with training at launch.
Search built in structure, schema and every old address redirected, so you keep your rankings.
Typically 5 to 16 weeks from £5k to £30k, depending on size.
We make sure buyers searching from outside the Test Valley can find you for what you make or do, as well as those searching locally.
SEO for organisations whose buyers search before they call. We fix what stops you ranking, build the pages people search for, and give AI assistants what they need to recommend you.
Technical fixes Speed, indexing, broken links and the problems Search Console keeps flagging.
Research What your buyers type into Google, and what they ask ChatGPT and Gemini.
Pages that rank New service and location pages, and rewrites of the ones that should already be ranking.
AI visibility Clear information about who you are and what you do, in a structure AI assistants can quote.
A small, focused Google Ads campaign suits Andover firms well: precise searches, modest budgets and clear tracking.
Google Ads campaigns built around the searches that turn into enquiries, landing pages that convert, and tracking that shows what each pound brings back.
Account audit What’s working, what’s wasting money, and what’s missing.
Keyword strategy The searches that lead to enquiries, and the ones to exclude.
Ads Copy written for each group of searches, tested against alternatives.
Landing pages Pages designed for each campaign, not your homepage.
Hosting, updates, backups, security and monitoring, plus small changes when you need them. The quiet upkeep, handled, so you can stop worrying about the website.
Hosting Fast, secure hosting for WordPress, set up and managed for you.
Updates WordPress, theme and plugin updates, tested so nothing breaks.
Backups Regular backups kept off the server, and restores when needed.
Security Firewall, malware scanning and sensible logins.
Software launches, a consultancy and restaurant groups. Each one looks like the organisation it is for, and none uses a template.
SavvyIQHospitality consultancyStreamAliveSoftware for live sessionsSendDeckSoftware for proposals and decksCedroRestaurant group conceptChowkRestaurant group conceptHarvest & HiveCafé brand concept
Screenshots from Google and ChatGPT for searches our clients care about. Click any of them to see it full size.
Google’s AI Overview names B3 Designers first for “restaurant designers”.Google, October 2026ChatGPT recommends B3 Designers first to someone opening a London restaurant.ChatGPT, October 2026ChatGPT puts StreamAlive at number one for Zoom engagement tools.ChatGPT, October 2026Google’s AI Overview cites StreamAlive for word clouds in Zoom.Google, June 2026First on Google for “restaurant interior design london”, with the AI Overview and map.Google, October 2026B3’s Glasgow page, first for “dining room designers glasgow”.Google, September 2026
Google Ads agency case study: four times the enquiries
How we rebuilt B3 Designers’ Google Ads around the searches that become restaurant and hotel projects.
January to September 2026, compared with the same months of 2025. Photography by B3 Designers.
Web design and marketing agency reviews
“StreamAlive has seen a real improvement in visibility across both Google and AI search since working with Riverforge. They’re like an extension of our team and really got to know our business. We didn’t have huge budgets like other tech companies but they worked within that constraint to bring in quality traffic, with #1 Google results and AI tools recommending us over our competitors - visitors arriving through ChatGPT and Gemini convert at around 20%. For us, the value has been in turning visibility into actual product signups.”
Lux NarayanFounder, StreamAlive. Google review.
“You came in, quickly understood the problem, cut through the noise and focused on the things that would make the biggest difference. The results speak for themselves, but what I’ve really valued is how clearly he explains what needs doing and why.”
Mark BithreyFounder and Director, B3 Designers
Web design prices in Andover
Every project is quoted at a fixed price from a written specification. Most websites fall into one of these ranges.
£5k to £8k
A focused site
For firms with a clear offer that need to look established and be easy to find.
Up to about 15 pages
4 to 6 page designs
Enquiry forms and Google search basics
A content system your team can edit
About 5 to 7 weeks
£8k to £12k
An established firm
For organisations with several services, sectors or locations to explain.
About 15 to 50 pages, plus news and case studies
6 to 10 page designs
One or two custom features, such as quote forms or location pages
Content moved across and old addresses redirected
About 7 to 10 weeks
£12k to £30k
A corporate site
For larger organisations with several divisions, libraries of projects or products, and more people signing off.
50 pages to a few hundred
10 to 15 page designs
Up to two custom tools, such as a finder, calculator or filtered library
Migration from another platform, with ranking pages protected
About 10 to 16 weeks
Sites with online ordering, live data feeds or hundreds of location pages are scoped separately. Care plans, search and ads are billed monthly. See prices for every service.
Web design, SEO and Google Ads searches in Andover
You do not need to be in the map pack to win these searches. A clear page that says what you do and who for can rank in the ordinary results, and it is the same page AI assistants read when someone asks them to recommend a firm. Typical searches:
web design agency Andover
web designer Andover
SEO agency Andover
marketing agency Andover
Meet a web design agency near Andover
Andover is around 50 minutes from Reading by car. We will travel to meet you, and for later conversations video usually saves time for both of us. Most of the work happens over email and video, so you will not be asked to travel, and there is no account manager between you and the person leading the project.
Do you cover Andover even though it is further away?
Yes. It is at the edge of the area we serve and we are happy to travel for key meetings. Day-to-day work is done by email and video, so distance does not affect the quality of the work.
We are an engineering firm in Andover. What would you change first?
Usually the way the site explains what you make, who for, and how a buyer can get a quote. Many industrial sites hide that behind vague wording.
How much does web design cost in Andover?
Every website is quoted at a fixed price from a written specification. Most fall between £5k and £30k, depending on size and complexity, and the price does not change with where you are. Marketing services such as SEO and Google Ads are a monthly fee, quoted on scope.
New company registrations in Andover
If you're one of the 455 new businesses that registered in Andover in the last 12 months, or an established business wondering how many new competitors and customers are arriving, here is what the numbers look like. They tell us who is looking for a website, search visibility and advertising in the area.
455companies registered in Andover in the last 12 months
37a month on average over the last two years
58in Mar 2026, the busiest month of the last two years
Companies registered per month in Andover
58
Oct 2024
Jun 2025
Feb 2026
Sep 2026
Companies incorporated each month with a registered office in Andover, October 2024 to September 2026.Show the monthly figures
Oct 2024
37
Nov 2024
29
Dec 2024
22
Jan 2025
40
Feb 2025
32
Mar 2025
35
Apr 2025
37
May 2025
41
Jun 2025
37
Jul 2025
36
Aug 2025
34
Sep 2025
50
Oct 2025
45
Nov 2025
33
Dec 2025
33
Jan 2026
38
Feb 2026
33
Mar 2026
58
Apr 2026
32
May 2026
34
Jun 2026
36
Jul 2026
36
Aug 2026
36
Sep 2026
41
Most common sectors for new companies in Andover
Professional services14.3%
Retail9.3%
Construction9.1%
Property9.0%
Software and IT6.8%
Share of all companies registered in Andover between January 2024 and September 2026, by main SIC code.
Software and IT companies registering in Andover
14January to September 2024
25January to September 2025
32January to September 2026
32 software and IT companies registered in Andover in the first nine months of 2026, against 25 in 2025 and 14 in 2024. They now make up 9.3% of new companies in Andover, up from 4.7% in 2024. New software and IT companies need a credible website and search presence quickly. It is work we do for software firms such as StreamAlive and SendDeck.
Source: Companies House company records, grouped by the town in each company's registered office address. Registered offices can be accountants' or formation agents' addresses, so these are companies registered in Andover, not all trading there.
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