Scarborough · photographers
Web design for
photographers in Scarborough.
There are 52 photography studios listed on Google Maps in Scarborough. 43 of them put a website on the listing, and we opened every one of those 43 ourselves. Here is what was behind them.
0 of the 43 Scarborough sites had nothing wrong with them at all. The other 43 had at least one of the faults listed above, and most had more than one. (Scarborough is part of Toronto — we count the businesses that give Scarborough as their address.)
What they are built on
5 platforms,
no clear winner.
Behind the 43 sites we counted 5 platforms. The split says something about budget: 23% on WordPress usually means somebody was paid to build it, while the 2 on free builders were almost always put together by the owner.
What actually breaks
No analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does
on 15 of them.
15 of the 43 photography studios we opened in Scarborough share the same fault: no analytics — nobody is measuring what the site does. 15 have a second one on top of it — no enquiry form anywhere on the site. None of this is visible to the owner, which is why it survives for years.
If you own one of these 43 sites, the order to fix them in is the order above: the fault 15 businesses share is the one your competitors have not fixed either, so it is where the cheapest advantage sits.
Who you are up against
667 reviews
from the top five.
The spread in Scarborough is wide: from under 17 reviews in the bottom quarter to 1,551 at the top, with the middle at 43. 13 of the 52 photographers have passed a hundred.
Scarborough holds 52 of the 779 photography studios we found across the GTA, which ranks it 5th among the 26 places we surveyed. Review counts are not comparable between trades, so none of this means anything outside photographers.
What this means for you
The Scarborough leaders
already fixed this.
4 of the five most-reviewed photographers in Scarborough run a secure site that works on a phone. Between them they hold 4,939 reviews. That is the standard a customer compares you against before reading a word about you.
Where a photographer lands depends on how many services need a page of their own — $590 at the small end, $3,900 for a practice with a dozen. Nothing is due until it is finished. Full pricing.
Related.
Photographers across the GTA All trades in Scarborough The full GTA report
Photographers elsewhere in the GTA: Toronto Mississauga Brampton North York Etobicoke
Other trades in Scarborough: Dentists Law firms Accountants HVAC contractors Renovation contractors Plumbers
Questions
Straight answers.
How many photographers are there in Scarborough?
52 listings, of which 0 have a website with nothing technically wrong with it. The remaining 52 are either missing a site, running a broken one, or running one with at least one fault we could see from outside.
How many Google reviews do I need to compete in Scarborough?
To be average in Scarborough you need 43. To be in the top quarter you need more than 108. To be visible next to the busiest photographer here you would need 1,551, which took them years. 37 of the 52 already hold a 4.9 rating, so the rating is not what separates them.
What does a website for a photographer in Scarborough cost?
Between $590 and $3,900 depending on the size of the practice and how many services need their own page, paid after the site is built and you have seen it. Hosting, edits, your Google Business Profile and ongoing SEO run $129 to $990 a month, cancellable any month.
Your turn
Same check,
run on your site.
The check behind this page is the one we ran on every business above. Put your own address in and it will load your site on a phone screen, look at the certificate and the page age, and tell you what a visitor meets. No email, nothing stored.
If you want
one built.
We build the site, you look at it, and you pay once it is finished and you are happy with it. Hosting, edits and the Google listing carry on monthly, cancellable any month.