Riverforge is a web design and digital marketing agency serving Aylesbury: website design and development, SEO, Google Ads and paid social, led by Peter Claridge from Reading. We are about 60 minutes away and happy to meet in person.
Organisations selling or letting into fast-growing neighbourhoods, where a site has to present place, plans and enquiry routes clearly.
Health, care and wellbeing providers
Clinics, therapists and care services, many linked to the town's healthcare presence, who need to build trust online.
Professional and public-facing firms
Solicitors, accountants and consultants serving the county town and the surrounding villages.
Riverforge is a web design and digital marketing agency for Aylesbury 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 Aylesbury
In a fast-growing town, early visibility matters. We build the site to be easy to find and easy to trust for newcomers who do not yet know the local firms.
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.
As Aylesbury grows, new residents and businesses search for local names. Pages that name Aylesbury and its neighbourhoods help you be the one they find.
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.
Paid search gives a business in a growing area immediate visibility while organic rankings build.
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 Aylesbury
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 Aylesbury
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 Aylesbury
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SEO agency Aylesbury
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Meet a web design agency near Aylesbury
Aylesbury is about an hour from Reading by car. For a first meeting we are happy to travel, or we can start on video and meet in person when it helps. 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.
Aylesbury is a long way from Reading. Do you really work there?
Yes. Most of our work is done by email and video, and we are happy to drive to Aylesbury when meeting in person is useful, usually at the start of a project and at key points.
Is it worth building early in a growing area?
Often. New residents search for local services immediately and have no established favourites. Being visible early in a growing area can build a customer base that lasts.
How much does web design cost in Aylesbury?
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 Aylesbury
If you're one of the 1,314 new businesses that registered in Aylesbury 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.
1,314companies registered in Aylesbury in the last 12 months
111a month on average over the last two years
127in Sep 2025, the busiest month of the last two years
Companies registered per month in Aylesbury
127
Oct 2024
Jun 2025
Feb 2026
Sep 2026
Companies incorporated each month with a registered office in Aylesbury, October 2024 to September 2026.Show the monthly figures
Oct 2024
121
Nov 2024
96
Dec 2024
83
Jan 2025
120
Feb 2025
120
Mar 2025
103
Apr 2025
116
May 2025
97
Jun 2025
126
Jul 2025
124
Aug 2025
106
Sep 2025
127
Oct 2025
127
Nov 2025
80
Dec 2025
85
Jan 2026
125
Feb 2026
108
Mar 2026
127
Apr 2026
122
May 2026
96
Jun 2026
84
Jul 2026
121
Aug 2026
118
Sep 2026
121
Most common sectors for new companies in Aylesbury
Professional services11.5%
Construction10.9%
Retail9.9%
Property9.8%
Software and IT8.2%
Share of all companies registered in Aylesbury between January 2024 and September 2026, by main SIC code.
Hospitality companies registering in Aylesbury
70January to September 2024
61January to September 2025
85January to September 2026
85 hospitality companies registered in Aylesbury in the first nine months of 2026, against 61 in 2025 and 70 in 2024. They now make up 8.3% of new companies in Aylesbury, up from 7.5% in 2024. Hospitality customers search on their phones and book fast. We build and advertise restaurant and hotel websites, including Google Ads for B3 Designers' restaurant and hotel projects.
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 Aylesbury, not all trading there.
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