Web agency on Zealand: websites for small businesses

How much does a website from a web agency on Zealand cost?

A web agency on Zealand typically charges DKK 35,000–90,000 for a five-page website for a small business, and a freelancer DKK 12,000–30,000, excluding VAT. The price depends more on how much design and copy the agency does from scratch than on the postcode. Running costs come on top every year, so compare the price over three years:

All amounts exclude VAT and come from our website cost calculator, built on Danish hourly rates: about DKK 500–900 an hour for freelancers and DKK 900–1,400 for agencies. Running costs are hosting, a domain, licences and a service agreement. Striive is DKK 99 a month incl. VAT for the first 4 months, then DKK 249 a month incl. VAT, plus your domain.

Agency, freelancer or yourself: what suits a small business on Zealand?

It depends on your budget, and whether you want to edit the website yourself afterwards:

• A web agency, if you need a custom design, links to other systems or a web shop with many products, and have DKK 35,000 or more to spend.
• A freelance web designer, if you want someone else to build a simple site from a template and don’t mind paying for changes later.
• A website builder like Striive, if you want a professional website with no build fee and to edit texts, prices and photos yourself whenever you need to.

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How do you choose a web agency on Zealand?

Ask everyone who quotes the same questions, so you can compare:

1. Ask for a fixed price in writing, excluding and including VAT, and what running costs and a service agreement cost a year.
2. Ask who owns the domain, the website and the texts if you stop working together.
3. Ask whether you can edit texts and photos yourself, or whether every change costs hours.
4. Ask for three websites they made for businesses like yours, ideally on Zealand or nearby, and call one of the customers.
5. Check that their own website is fast on a phone and has a cookie banner, a privacy notice and a CVR number.

What do customers on Zealand search for?

Local customers type the trade and the place. Typical searches (in Danish, as they’re typed):

• webbureau Sjælland
• webbureau Roskilde
• hjemmeside Næstved
• murer Køge
• VVS Holbæk
• tagdækker Slagelse
• frisør Ringsted
• autoværksted Kalundborg

Use the same words on your pages. If you also cover Roskilde, Køge, Holbæk, Næstved, Slagelse, Ringsted, Kalundborg, Vordingborg, name them in the text and, where it fits, in the page title. Google can’t guess where you’ll drive to.

How do you get found on Google on Zealand?

Local visibility comes down to three things: your Google Business Profile, the words on your website and reviews.

1. Create a free Google Business Profile with your address, opening hours, photos and a link to your website.
2. Give every service its own page with the trade and the place in its title, and check it in our Google preview.
3. Add structured data about your business with our free LocalBusiness tool.
4. Ask happy customers for a Google review, and answer every one.

Name the towns you actually drive to instead of “all of Zealand”. Customers want to know whether you come to their town, and a page about Holbæk doesn’t help a customer in Vordingborg.

The whole way through in how to get found on Google.

What are small businesses on Zealand like?

Zealand is Denmark’s largest island, home to the capital and a long line of market towns such as Roskilde, Køge, Holbæk, Næstved and Slagelse. Outside Copenhagen and North Zealand, many small businesses are tradespeople, shops, clinics and farms that drive between several towns.

If you work in Køge, Ringsted and Roskilde, give each town its own page. Five pages plus three town pages make eight: DKK 42,000–108,000 at an agency and DKK 15,000–38,000 from a freelancer, excluding VAT. In Striive you add the pages yourself and the price stays the same; allow 11–22 hours of your own time for the whole website.

Why build the website yourself with Striive on Zealand?

Because it costs a fraction of an agency, and you still get a professional website. Over three years you save DKK 18,000–71,000 compared with a freelancer. AI builds your first version from a few answers about your business, or from your current website, and you edit everything yourself in a visual editor. EU hosting, your own domain with HTTPS, a contact form and a cookie banner are included in DKK 99 a month incl. VAT for the first 4 months, then DKK 249 a month incl. VAT. Striive is made in Viborg, but it’s a website builder you use online, so it works the same all over Zealand; questions are answered in Danish or English at admin@striiveai.com.