Web designer & developer in Burnaby, BC.
I build durable websites and custom software for Burnaby small and medium businesses — from Metrotown and Brentwood commercial hubs to the smaller operators along Hastings, Kingsway, and Edmonds, and the tech cluster on the Simon Fraser hill. Fixed-price websites, scope-per-engagement apps, launched in two weeks.
Burnaby sits at the centre of the Metro Vancouver footprint.
More than any other Metro city, a Burnaby business is as likely to serve customers in Surrey as in Vancouver. You’re in the middle — your customer base is regional, not neighbourhood. That changes what local SEO should target and how your site should be structured.
Burnaby’s business mix reflects that middle position. Metrotown anchors the retail and professional services south end, Brentwood Town Centre is building out a younger commercial base, there’s a mature tech and creative cluster around BCIT and across the SFU hill, and a lot of small operators run along Hastings, Kingsway, and Edmonds. Very few of these businesses serve only Burnaby residents — most are regional or cross-city by design.
That changes the SEO strategy. Rather than optimizing for “Burnaby” alone, a Burnaby SMB usually ranks faster by targeting its actual service area: Burnaby plus neighbouring cities, or metro-wide for service businesses that deliver anywhere in Metro Vancouver. I build the site and its schema with that in mind.
Regional / metro-wide
- Professional services (accounting, legal, consulting) with clients across Metro.
- Home services (electricians, plumbers, HVAC) serving anywhere from Vancouver to Coquitlam.
- B2B operators whose customer list isn’t geographically bounded.
- E-commerce or retail with pickup in Burnaby but delivery across the Lower Mainland.
- Creative and tech services that sell into Metro-wide markets.
Neighbourhood / Burnaby-first
- Retailers and restaurants on Hastings, Kingsway, and Edmonds.
- Residential services (lawn care, cleaning, tutoring) in specific Burnaby neighbourhoods.
- Dental, health, and professional offices serving the Burnaby catchment.
- Small manufacturers and trades serving construction sites across Burnaby.
- Childcare, fitness, and community services with Burnaby-first customer bases.
Your customers probably span more than Burnaby.
Metro Vancouver is one market in practice, split across a handful of cities. See the Vancouver page for the metro context, or the Fraser Valley hub if your customer base reaches east toward Langley, Surrey, or Abbotsford.
Do you serve all Burnaby neighbourhoods or just Metrotown?
All of Burnaby — Metrotown, Brentwood, Edmonds, Highgate, Kingsway corridor, Lochdale, Cariboo, up to the Simon Fraser hill. The distinction that actually matters for a website is whether your business serves just Burnaby or reaches into Vancouver, Surrey, and beyond. That determines what your schema should target and how internal links should be structured.
My customers are across Metro Vancouver, not just Burnaby. How do I target that without looking spammy?
You build the schema and metadata to accurately reflect your actual service area, without keyword-stuffing city names into your body copy. LocalBusiness schema supports multi-city areaServed natively — Google treats it legitimately when it matches reality. Your URL structure and internal linking should reinforce the pattern: service + specific cities where that's the real offering. What you don't do is create a separate doorway page for every city you serve — that's a penalty trap.
I have a small office near BCIT and also work from home — what's the right address to put on the site?
Whatever address you'd actually want a customer to mail you at. If you don't want clients showing up unannounced, use 'by appointment only' and set your Google Business Profile to city-level Burnaby without a street address. Consistency between your site, your Business Profile, and any directory listings matters more than any individual address choice.
Running a business in Burnaby?
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