Toronto & the GTA
We build websites and run local SEO for garden centres across the Greater Toronto Area. Everything below comes from our own survey of 446 listings in this field — we opened all 352 of their websites and checked what was there.
Review counts are not comparable between trades — 79 is the middle for garden centres, which is a very different number from what a dentist or a barber would see. The upper quarter of this field is past 313 reviews and the busiest garden centre we found holds 39,919.
What they are built on
Detected from the 352 garden centres and nurseries websites we opened. 10 are on a free or entry-level builder, 5 on software discontinued years ago, and 23 still date themselves 2009 or earlier in the footer.
What actually breaks
Counted separately across all 352 sites in this field, so a site with four faults appears in four rows.
Built for this trade
One page cannot rank for everything a garden centre does. Each service gets its own page, written for the words people actually type — which for this field is rarely the words the trade uses internally.
Reviews, photographs and the details that make someone pick you over the listing above yours. 35% of garden centres with a website still have no mobile version — that alone is an opening.
Forms, booking, click-to-call. 74 sites in this field have no enquiry form at all.
Questions
No. We work with local businesses across the GTA and keep a separate page per trade because what a garden centre needs from a website is genuinely different from what a retailer needs. We surveyed 446 garden centres and nurseries to write this one.
60 of the 446 we checked have none attached to their Google listing, and 38 more link to a site that does not load. Of the 352 working sites, 123 have no mobile version.
The median across the GTA in this field is 79; the upper quarter is past 313 and the busiest single garden centre we found holds 39,919. Those numbers mean nothing outside this trade — a count that is exceptional for a garden centre is unremarkable for a restaurant.
Between $590 and $3,900 for the site depending on size, paid after it is built and you have seen it. Then $129 to $990 a month for hosting, edits, your Google listing and ongoing SEO. Cancel any month.
Before you decide anything
Most people asking about a rebuild do not need one. The free check opens your site, looks at how it behaves on a phone, whether it is secure and how old the page is, and tells you which of those apply to you.
Send us the address and what you do. We will look at what is there and tell you whether a rebuild is worth the money, or whether the problem is somewhere else entirely.