Website creation in Lyon and across the metropolitan area

Web agency in Lyon

You're looking for a web agency in Lyon and you've found one developer, which changes the relationship because the person listening to you is the one who codes your site. Website creation in Lyon works on a monthly plan here, with the Essential plan at €1 at the order and then €39 a month, hosting, backups, security and text changes included. The Visibility plan costs €1 at the order and then €79 a month and adds pages and articles every month written for Google and for ChatGPT. The domain is in your name and the code belongs to you from day one.

Why does a Lyon business need its own website?

Because the metropolitan area holds so many businesses that word of mouth on its own no longer carries you. According to INSEE, the Métropole de Lyon had 177,352 active establishments at the end of 2024, and a good share of them sell the same thing you do a few metro stops away. When someone in Montchat needs a tiler, they compare three or four sites in a few minutes and pick the one that shows real jobs, a clear service area and an easy way to call. A site that meets those three expectations wins before the first phone call.

People in Lyon search with the arrondissement number, a habit specific to this city. They type "plombier Lyon 3", "dentiste Lyon 6" or "coiffeur Croix-Rousse", and Google returns pages that use the same split. A Google listing pinned in Gerland won't show up for a search made from Vaise, while a page dedicated to the 9th can. The site I build therefore has pages per arrondissement or neighbourhood, written for the people who live there rather than copied from one district to the next, which Google notices very quickly and punishes.

A site of your own also shields your business from middlemen. Lead platforms sell your own customers to several competitors at once, and paid directories place you next to ten rivals with no way to stand out. With a domain registered in your name, code that belongs to you and content you control, you alone decide what a customer in Villeurbanne or Bron reads about you. That independence holds later too, since you can leave with your site and your files the day you choose, without asking anyone's permission or paying an exit fee.

Which Lyon neighbourhoods and nearby towns do I cover?

I work with businesses in all nine arrondissements, from the Croix-Rousse plateau in the 4th to the slopes and the Terreaux in the 1st, from the Presqu'île, Bellecour and Confluence in the 2nd to Vieux Lyon and Fourvière in the 5th. The 3rd gathers the Part-Dieu business district, Montchat and La Villette, the 6th the Brotteaux and the Tête d'Or park, the 7th La Guillotière, Jean Macé and Gerland, the 8th Monplaisir and États-Unis, and the 9th Vaise, Gorge de Loup and La Duchère. Each area has its own words, and the site uses them.

The metropolitan area doesn't stop at the ring road, and many of my clients do most of their work outside Lyon itself. So I cover Villeurbanne and Bron to the east, Vénissieux and Saint-Priest to the south east, Oullins-Pierre-Bénite and Saint-Fons to the south, Caluire-et-Cuire and Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or to the north, as well as Marcy-l'Étoile and the towns of the western hills where many gardeners and building trades operate. The site names the towns you really serve and describes what you do there, instead of listing places with no content behind them.

The trades I meet most here are the craft trades, which weigh heavily in the Rhône. According to the barometer published by the Chambre de métiers et de l'artisanat Lyon Rhône in February 2025, the department has 48,500 craft businesses, a figure up by almost a quarter in five years. That covers the plumbers, electricians, joiners and painters who work in the old buildings of the Presqu'île and the slopes, the food shops and restaurants that live on neighbourhood customers, and the hair salons and beauty studios found in every arrondissement, many of them run by people who came here from abroad.

Picture a plumber and heating engineer based in Villeurbanne who works in the 3rd and the 6th. The site would have a home page that states the trade, the area and the emergency response time, a "plombier Lyon 3" page and a "plombier Lyon 6" page with the streets and building types he knows, a "chauffagiste Villeurbanne" page for boiler servicing, a page on water heater replacement with before and after photos, and a contact page with one tap calling and a short form. Each page targets a single search, and together they describe what he really does.

05 The plans

How much does website creation in Lyon cost?

01 Essential

Essential

The website, the hosting and the updates, with nothing else to manage on your side.

€1

at the order

then €39 a month

Your site online in less than 48 hours after the order
A unique website, designed and coded for your business
Hosting, daily backups and security monitoring
Technical fixes and updates included in the plan
Text and image changes delivered within 48 working hours
Monthly report on traffic and uptime

That is €469 excluding tax for the first year, then €39 a month, cancellable any month with one month's notice.

Choose Essential

02 Visibility Most complete

Visibility

Everything in Essential, plus the content that puts your site on your trade's keywords and brings you customers.

€1

at the order

then €79 a month

Everything in the Essential plan
4 pages and 4 articles a month, written on verified keywords for Google and AI search engines
Each page targets one more keyword, so after a year your site answers close to a hundred searches in your trade
Monthly report on your positions for local searches

That is €949 excluding tax for the first year, then €79 a month, cancellable any month with one month's notice.

Choose Visibility

Monthly plan excluding tax, 12 months minimum, then cancellable with one month's notice. The domain name and the source code belong to you from day one, with a full export of the site within 15 days on request, free of charge, even during the commitment.

Card payment, secured by Stripe. You pay the order and the first monthly payment, then each monthly payment is charged on the same date. Would you rather get a quote and talk first? Write to me.

How do you get seen on Google in Lyon with a local site?

Your page shows up when its title matches the exact search, for instance "ostéopathe Lyon 7" or "garage Villeurbanne", and when its content answers that request. I pick every keyword from verified volume data, never by feel, and I drop the ones that big national sites already own. The site carries the structured data that tells Google your address, your hours and your service area, which helps it place you in the map box that people in Lyon look at first on their phones, often while standing in the street outside a closed shop.

The Google Business Profile is what people in Lyon see before your site, and it has to say the same thing. I check the main category, the hours, the service area and the photos, and I link the profile to the matching page of the site rather than just the home page. In the Visibility plan I maintain the profile every month with posts, new photos and answers to the questions people leave, and the monthly report follows your positions on the local searches you target, arrondissement by arrondissement, so we can decide which page to write next.

Answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews pick up pages that answer one clear question directly. The Visibility plan adds four pages and four articles every month on verified keywords, for example "what does a bathroom renovation cost in Lyon" for a plumber, or "when to service a boiler in Villeurbanne". These pages link to each other and carry the structured data those engines read. Your site grows every month instead of standing still, and this is what eventually gets you quoted in the answers people read instead of the ten blue links.

How does building your website in Lyon work?

To get started I need an hour with you and three things, your photos, your prices and the list of questions customers ask you on the phone. We meet in your workshop or shop, in Lyon or anywhere in the metropolitan area, or on a video call if that's easier between two jobs. During that hour I look for what sets you apart from other firms, often a detail you find ordinary, like calling back within the hour or working Saturdays, and that detail ends up at the top of the home page, in French and in English if you serve both.

About ten days later you receive a link to the complete first version of the site, with every page and the real words, not mockups. You go through it on your phone the way a customer would, you note what's missing or what sounds wrong, and I fix it until every page sounds like you. I then check speed, accessibility and technical SEO before going live, with no theme and no page builder, because a site drawn and coded for your trade stays faster and simpler to maintain than anything assembled from plugins.

Count less than 48 hours between the order and the launch, and the delay mostly depends on how long you take to review. Once the site is live you manage nothing, hosting, daily backups, security monitoring and technical updates are automated, and every text or image change you send me is online within two working days. The monthly report tells you how many people came and whether the site stayed up the whole time, and you keep the same contact, the one who coded the site, for as long as you stay.

06 The price

Why this price does not lower the quality

The price comes from how the site is built and maintained, not from a sacrifice on the design or the code.

A site designed and coded, not a template

No purchased theme, no page builder. The layout, the copy and the code are written for your business, after research on what your competitors do and on what your customers type into Google. Two clients never receive the same site.

Performance and security are measured

Before going live, every site passes a check on speed, accessibility and technical SEO, and it does not ship until the score is where it should be. A fast, clean site costs less to host and maintain, and that saving is in the price.

Automation pays the difference

Hosting, backups, monitoring and the monthly report are automated, and I have spent sixteen years building this kind of tooling. Human time goes to the design, the copy and your change requests, not to the repetitive tasks others bill you for every month.

No financing, no hidden clause

You pay €1 or €1 at the order, then a monthly plan for twelve months, with no credit company and no lease contract. The first year total sits at the top of the quote, and the domain and the code stay yours, with an export of the site within 15 days on request.

Questions about my web agency in Lyon

Why choose a web agency in Lyon run by one person?

Because you speak directly to the developer who designs and codes your site, with no salesperson or project manager in between. Sixteen years of code and a WordPress theme installed on more than half a million sites taught me to deliver fast and without mess. Hosting, backups, monitoring and the monthly report are automated, which is why the monthly price is possible, and you keep a single contact from the first call to the launch.

How much does a web agency in Lyon charge for a shop or trade website?

With me, the Essential plan comes to €1 at the order and then €39 a month, which is €469 excluding tax for the first year. The Visibility plan comes to €1 at the order and then €79 a month, or €949 excluding tax for the first year, with the monthly pages and articles included. The first year total is written at the top of every quote, and the pricing page details every line.

Do the website and the domain name stay mine?

Yes, they stay yours from day one. The domain is registered in your name and the source code belongs to you from the order, with no finance company and no lease contract. If you leave, you ask for a full export of the site and receive it within fifteen days, free, even during the commitment. That's the main difference with a rented website, where the provider keeps everything if you stop paying.

Do you travel across the whole Lyon metropolitan area?

Yes, for the first conversation I come to Lyon, Villeurbanne, Bron, Vénissieux, Caluire-et-Cuire or the towns in the western hills when you'd rather talk on site. Many clients choose a video call because it fits more easily between two jobs, and the result is the same. Reviews then happen in writing or by phone, whichever suits you, and in English if that's easier for you than French.

What does website creation in Lyon include on the monthly plan?

A unique site designed and coded for your business, without a theme or WordPress, plus hosting, daily backups, security monitoring, technical fixes, your text and image changes within two working days and a monthly report. The Visibility plan adds pages and articles every month, upkeep of your Google profile and tracking of your local positions. For tradespeople it's the substance of an affordable website without cutting corners on quality.

Do you also work with businesses outside Lyon?

Yes, over video calls the method stays the same wherever you are. I have a page for businesses in Saint-Étienne, under an hour from Lyon, and I cover the rest of the region the same way. If you want to understand what pushes a shop up the results in its own city before getting in touch, my article on local SEO explains the method in detail, with examples you can check yourself.

08 Compare before you sign

A site coded for you, at the price of a kit site

01 The code and the domain name are yours from day one, with an export of the site within 15 days
02 No WordPress and no page builder, every page is designed and written for your business
03 Speed, accessibility and technical SEO are measured before the site goes live

Among the French offers under 100 € a month we reviewed in August 2026, none displayed these three commitments together.

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