Web design, SEO and Google Ads for service businesses. Every page is planned around what your customers need to see before they call, book or ask for a quote. You work with Nick, start to finish.
Independent since 2018. Based in Atlanta, working with businesses in every state.
Most clients start with one of these. They work best together, so every project connects them.
Web design
A site that says what you do in the first line, loads fast on a phone and makes calling or booking the obvious next step.
Web design servicesSEO
Show up when people nearby search for what you do: technical fixes, service pages worth reading, and your Google Business Profile in order.
SEO services
Wrenfield Plumbing & Heating
Open 24 hours
Google Ads
Ads that lead to a page making the same promise, with every call and form tracked so you can see what the spend brings back.
Google Ads servicesSponsored
wrenfieldplumbing.com
Same-Day Water Heater Replacement in Marietta
Upfront price before we start. Licensed and insured. Book online or call now.
Leads today
Also: Shopify stores, WordPress sites, custom apps and consultancy.
A family dentist, a landscape design-build firm, a family law practice, a med spa and a roofing company. Each site is built around how that trade's customers decide who to call.
Before anything is designed, Nick marks up the site you have now: what a customer sees first, where they get stuck, and why they leave without calling. Most service business sites lose work in the same few places.
A typical service business website. It looks fine, and it quietly loses work every week.
Seven menu links and no way to call.
The fix: A short menu, and one button that is always on screen.
The first line says nothing.
The fix: Say what you do and where you do it, in plain words.
A slider nobody waits for.
The fix: One clear message that loads fast on a phone.
A wall of text nobody reads.
The fix: Short answers to the questions customers ask on the phone.
No towns, no prices, no reasons to choose you.
The fix: The areas you cover, rough prices, and your reviews, up front.
The phone number is hiding in the footer.
The fix: Tap to call and a short quote form at the top of every page.
The same business, rebuilt so the website does its job.
You work with Nick, start to finish
The person on your first call plans the pages, writes the words, builds the site and reads the numbers with you every month. No account managers, no hand-offs.
Nick, founder
Vorgestern started in 2018 in a Melbourne apartment, with one person taking on projects directly. It is now an independent studio based in Atlanta, working with service businesses across the country.
Vorgestern is German for the day before yesterday: a reminder that the fundamentals of a good website have not changed.
About the studioNothing is hidden behind a discovery fee, and the plan is yours whether you build with us or not.
A call
Thirty minutes on what is costing you work. No deck, no pitch.
A written plan
A fixed scope, a price and a date, so you know what you are buying before you buy it.
The build
Design, words and code from the same desk. You see it working, not a picture of it working.
Launch, then measure
Calls, forms and bookings tracked from day one. A page that is not pulling its weight gets changed.
Real client projects, anonymized. Client names and identifying details are left out.
- +214% organic traffic in 6 months for a multi-location HVAC companyHVAC, Southeast U.S.They had been relying almost entirely on referrals and paid leads. The website looked outdated, loaded slowly, and barely ranked outside of the brand name. Most service pages were thin, and Google Business Profiles were inconsistent across locations.
- +82% phone calls for a Georgia plumbing companyPlumbing, GeorgiaThe company relied on repeat customers but wanted more emergency and installation leads. The site had poor mobile usability, weak service pages, and inconsistent local rankings.
- +76% appointment requests for a dermatology clinicDermatology, North CarolinaThe clinic offered both medical and cosmetic dermatology, but the website made it hard to understand the difference. They were not ranking strongly for acne, skin checks, Botox, or laser treatments.
Guides on local search, websites and ads, written for business owners rather than marketers.
- Atlanta Local SEO: The 2026 Playbook for Service BusinessesLocal SEOA research-backed Atlanta local SEO guide covering Google Business Profile, neighborhood pages, reviews, structured data, and the operational fixes that move rankings and leads.
- Phoenix Local SEO: How to Rank Across the MetroLocal SEOA Phoenix local SEO guide covering metro-scale service area strategy, Google Business Profile operations, local content, and conversion-focused landing pages.
- Dallas Local SEO: How Service Businesses Can Win SearchLocal SEODallas local SEO strategy for service operators competing across a dense metro with strong suburb identities, high commercial intent, and real map-pack competition.
Who actually does the work?
Nick does. Vorgestern is founder-led on purpose: the person on the first call is the person who plans the pages, writes the words and builds the site. There are no account managers and nothing gets handed down a chain.
Where is Vorgestern based, and do you work outside Atlanta?
The studio is based in Atlanta, Georgia, and most clients are somewhere else. Everything runs on calls, shared documents and a staging site you can click through, so it works the same in any state.
How long does SEO take to bring in work?
For local service businesses, movement in the map results usually shows within two to four months. Competitive searches take six to twelve months to hold. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is selling something that will not survive the next update.
Do you lock clients into long contracts?
No. Websites are quoted as a fixed scope. Ongoing search and ads work runs month to month, and you keep everything you paid for: the domain, the accounts, the content and the code.
Nick reads every message himself and replies by email to work out the next step.









