Everybody Finds You in March. The Problem Is the Other Nine Months.
Cannone Marketing builds accounting firms a brand new website with a real page for every service you offer and every town your clients come from, then manages your Google Business Profile so the bookkeeping, payroll, and advisory work finds you too.
- A 15 to 25 page custom website with its own page for tax prep, bookkeeping, payroll, business services, and each town you serve
- Google Business Profile setup, optimization, and active monthly management including review responses
- 100 physical QR review cards printed and shipped to your office
- GEO and AEO optimization built to get your firm cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude
- $199 setup and $49 per month with no contracts, plus a free homepage demo built within 24 hours
Where a Good Firm Loses the Year Round Clients
Most firms are busy enough in March. The harder problem is filling the rest of the calendar with bookkeeping, payroll, and business clients who pay every month. That work comes from searches your website is probably not built for. Here is what usually gets in the way.
Tax Prep and Bookkeeping Sit on the Same Page
Somebody who needs help with a 1040 and a business owner shopping for a monthly bookkeeper are two different clients worth very different amounts across a year. When every service is listed together, Google has nothing specific to rank, and the recurring work is the hardest thing to find on your own site.
Nothing on the Site Establishes Who You Are
Credentials carry real weight in this field and most firm websites barely mention them. If the site never makes clear who holds what license, what the firm actually specializes in, and who the people are, a business owner comparing three options has very little to go on.
Serving Clients Everywhere Means Ranking Nowhere
Plenty of firms went remote and the website now says it serves clients nationwide. Google reads that and has no particular reason to show you to anybody in particular. A large share of new accounting work still starts with a local search, and you need pages tied to actual towns to be part of it.
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Cannone Marketing does not add SEO to a website you already own. We build a new one from scratch, and for an accounting firm that matters because the site most offices have is a homepage, a services list, and a contact form. There is very little in that for Google to match to a specific service in a specific town.
Now the part you will work out in your head before you finish reading it. Firms regularly pay an agency $200, $300, or $500 a month for SEO on exactly that kind of site. That is somewhere between $2,400 and $6,000 a year leaving the practice for work performed on a foundation that was never built.
Cannone Marketing is $199 to start and $49 per month with no contract, which comes to $787 in year one and $588 every year after. That covers a brand new site built correctly, your Google Business Profile managed every month, and 100 QR review cards shipped to your office.
You already know what one monthly bookkeeping client is worth over twelve months. Set that next to these numbers, then take the free homepage demo and decide with something real in front of you.
Compare It Against My Current BillThe Full Scope for $49 a Month
One price, one package, and no engagement letter to sign. Here is exactly what an accounting firm gets for $199 up front and $49 per month.
A New Custom Accounting Website
A 15 to 25 page website built only for your firm, with a dedicated page for individual tax preparation, business returns, monthly bookkeeping, payroll, QuickBooks setup and cleanup, entity formation, IRS notices and representation, financial statement preparation, and advisory work, plus a page for each accountant covering credentials and background and a page for every town your clients come from. It is hosted within the AWS infrastructure network which provides the reliability and uptime standards of the world's leading cloud platform, with 256-bit SSL, consultation request forms rather than document uploads, live traffic stats, a favicon, Open Graph social sharing images, cross-browser testing, and your domain name included. Worry-Free Support means any update you need is handled by Mike at no extra charge.
Google Business Profile Management
Your Google Business Profile is what puts the firm in the map results, and most accounting offices leave real ground on the table by picking one category when accountant, tax preparation service, and bookkeeping service reach different searches. We fully set it up and optimize it, including categories, services, the firm bio, photos, hours, and every field Google asks for, and we keep the hours accurate when filing season changes them. Each month it stays managed and we respond to your reviews on your behalf, written so nothing references a client's situation. Weekly posting is not part of the plan and we will never say otherwise.
100 Physical QR Review Cards
We print 100 QR review cards and ship them to your office. Send one out with a completed return or hand one over at the close of an engagement, and the client scans it on their own time with no conversation and no pressure. Business clients and payroll clients tend to be the most comfortable leaving something public, which is where these cards do the most good. Nothing is ever offered in exchange for a review, since that goes against Google's policies.
AI Search Visibility
Business owners now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude whether they need a bookkeeper or a CPA and what an S corp election involves. Your site is built with GEO and AEO optimization plus sitewide advanced structured data so those tools can clearly read your services, your credentials, your service area, and your answers. FAQPage schema goes on every service page and location page, and your site is registered with Google, Bing, Yahoo, AOL, and DuckDuckGo. Advanced on-page SEO covers meta titles, descriptions, alt tags, and proper H1, H2, and H3 structure throughout.
The Recurring Work Has Its Own Searches
Firms ask why the site needs 15 to 25 pages. The reason is that Google ranks pages, not firms.
Write out what the practice actually does. Individual tax prep. Business returns. Monthly bookkeeping. Payroll. QuickBooks cleanup. Entity formation. IRS notices. Each one is a different person with a different problem, and the ones that recur every month are worth the most to you over a year. Now multiply that by every town your clients come from.
Fifteen to twenty five pages means each service gets a page written for the person in that exact situation, each accountant gets a page with credentials on it, and each town gets a page of its own. Financial topics are held to a higher standard by Google than most, so clear signals about who is behind the information carry extra weight here. AI tools read the same structure when they decide which firm to name in an answer.
See It Built Before You Commit to Anything
Fill out the form and Mike builds a real homepage for the firm within 24 hours at no cost, then goes through it with you himself so you see every part of it and can ask whatever you want along the way. No contract, no deposit. If it does not beat what you have now, nothing happens.
Build My Free DemoA Firm That Handles Money Should Not Have a Sloppy Website
Web Design for Accounting and Tax Services
People draw conclusions about how carefully you work from how carefully the site is put together. A layout that breaks on a phone and a contact path nobody can find tell a business owner something you would rather they not conclude. See how the site itself is built for accounting firms.
View Web Design for Accounting and Tax ServicesAnd Yes, You Are Going to Ask About the Deduction
Is a Business Website 100 Percent Tax Deductible for a Small Business?
You will have an opinion on this before the end of the first paragraph, but it is the question your own clients raise constantly, and it is a handy thing to point them at when they do.
Read the Full ArticleWhat Firm Owners Ask Us
Why is my accounting firm not showing up on Google Maps?
Map placement comes down to how complete and active your Google Business Profile is, how close you are to the person searching, and whether your website backs up what the profile claims. Most firms pick one category and stop, when accountant, tax preparation service, and bookkeeping service are separate categories that reach separate searches. Hours are another quiet problem in this field, since a lot of firms change them during filing season and never update the profile, which Google treats as a staleness signal. Cannone Marketing handles the profile and builds the website so the two support each other.
How do I get monthly bookkeeping clients instead of only tax season work?
Recurring work comes from different searches than tax prep does. Somebody typing tax preparer near me in February is not the same person typing small business bookkeeping or payroll services for a small business, and the second one is worth far more to you across a year. You cannot control which calls come in, but you can control which of those searches you have a real page for. That means a full page for bookkeeping, another for payroll, another for QuickBooks work, and those same services listed on your Google Business Profile.
We work with clients remotely. Does local SEO still matter?
Yes, and this trips up more firms than almost anything else. A lot of offices went remote and the website now says it serves clients nationwide, which gives Google no reason to show it to anybody in particular. A large share of people looking for an accountant still search locally, and Google weights proximity heavily in these categories. Building real pages for the towns your clients actually come from does not stop you working remotely. It just gives you a chance at the searches that are still local.
Can clients send tax documents through the website?
No, and the site is built to steer them away from trying. The forms are for consultation requests, meaning a name, a phone number, and a short note about what they need. Anything carrying a Social Security number, a W-2, or financial statements belongs in whatever secure portal your firm already uses, and the site can link to it clearly so clients land in the right place. A website contact form is not a document exchange and should never be treated as one.
How do I get reviews when clients do not want to discuss their finances?
Money is private and you should not push against that. Plenty of long term clients who would recommend you in person will never write something public about their own taxes. Be selective instead, since business clients, payroll clients, and people you helped with an entity formation are usually far more comfortable than an individual filer. Nothing should ever be offered in exchange for a review, because that goes against Google's policies and can get reviews removed.
Fill the Nine Months, Not Just the Three
The firm ranking above you is not doing better work on a return than you are. They just have a website Google can read and a profile somebody keeps up. Get the free homepage demo, see the firm built the right way, and then decide. $199 to start, $49 per month, no contract, and Mike handles it directly every time.
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