Lakeview Brands is the plain door for the website and local-SEO work I sell when a regional or industry site isn't the right fit — and a honest place to say I also run other projects.
I'm Christopher Ross. Consulting under my own name lives at thisismyurl.com. This site is not a complete list of every domain I own. Search engines and visitors both deserve better than a crawlable org chart.
Fixed-price web & SEO · free guides · on the web since 1996
Services
Fixed-price website design and local SEO for small businesses — three sizes each, paid once, yours to keep. Same scopes I use on regional and industry work; priced here when you want the Lakeview Brands door.
Guides
Five free, plain-language guides on the questions that come up most for a small business trying to get found and get chosen online. No email required, no gate.
Local SEO basics: get found nearby
Your Google Business Profile, your details matching everywhere, and reviews that keep coming. Three jobs you can do yourself, no code required.
What actually makes a website convert
Ranking well and getting chosen are different jobs. The wording, button and form changes that turn a visit into a call, none of them a redesign.
Brand voice, without the workshop
Brand voice isn't agency mystique. It's just sounding like the same business everywhere someone finds you.
Technical SEO without the jargon
Every word on that technical-SEO quote, translated, plus the six checks you can run yourself before paying anyone.
Content marketing on an hour a week
You don't need to blog every day. One good piece a month, used four ways, beats a burst of ten.
A few doors, not a directory
Categories of work I actually do, with sparse examples only. If you need a full inventory of every property, you won't find it here — on purpose.
Local websites & SEO
Regional and industry site pairs exist where the market already searches that way. One Ontario example below; pricing and scopes for anywhere I take the work live on Services.
niagaraseo.com & niagarawebdesigner.com
A disclosed SEO-and-build pair for small businesses in the Niagara region — one example of the local work, not a list of every market I serve.
Operator & trade news
I edit a handful of niche news titles for operators and trade readers. Two examples; the rest are not indexed from this page.
slipreport.com
Marina and boatyard news, read for you — slips, haul-outs, insurance, and the season-to-season economics of a waterfront business.
facilitydispatch.com
Self-storage operator news: development, pricing, and the lien-law details an independent operator actually needs.
WordPress tools
Free plugins and a shelf under my consulting brand. Two live examples; more live on the shelf when they're ready to install.
EditLoft
A free WordPress editorial-workflow plugin: custom post statuses, editorial comments, and a calendar an editor can plan around.
WP Shadow
A free diagnostics plugin — checks across security, performance, and accessibility, each explained in plain language.
Plugin shelf at plugins.thisismyurl.com
Training
lakeviewtraining.com
Onsite WordPress and Microsoft Office training at your office anywhere in Ontario — the come-to-your-desk version of what I've taught for years.
Consulting under my own name
thisismyurl.com
WordPress consulting, builds, and migrations under my own name — mostly for organizations that need a site that holds up. Most of what I write in public starts there.
I do SEO and web design for businesses across Ontario and, when the fit is right, outside Canada too. Sizes and prices are on the services page.