Accounting, Tax & CPA Website Design + SEO
For CPA firms, bookkeepers, tax preparers, tax-resolution practices and fractional CFOs who want search to bring in the work the referral network no longer covers.
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Overview
Your site works hardest in the ten weeks you have no time to touch it
An accounting practice books most of its new-client work for the year between the January 31 information-return deadline and April 15. March 15 takes the 1120-S and 1065 filers out of the week, and by the time you surface after the September 15 and October 15 extension dates, the season is a memory and the site is still whatever it was in February. That is the real constraint on this vertical: anything broken during filing season stays broken, because nobody is going to stop a return to fix a form.
The person filling in that form is comparing you to consumer filing software and to whoever their business partner used last year. They arrive with a price expectation already set, and four questions they need answered before they will call: are you actually licensed, do you handle a situation like mine, how do I get documents to you safely, and roughly what does this cost. A website built for an accounting practice answers those on the page rather than making the prospect email to find out.
This page is about accounting and tax practice specifically. If you are a bank, credit union, RIA, insurance agency or a broader financial services business, our banking, financial and legal page is the right starting point.
What makes this hard
What makes marketing an accounting practice different
Search demand for a tax practice is not a steady line. It is a spike with a name on it, and the queries behind it are near-me queries, which means local SEO and your Google Business Profile category do more of the work here than they do in most industries.
Ten weeks decide the year
Demand for "tax preparer near me" collapses in May and does not really return until W-2s land. If the site is not converting in February, you cannot buy that traffic back in July.
Priced against consumer software
Most visitors have a filing-software price in their head before they read a word. The page has to show what an S-corp basis schedule, a multi-state nexus question or three years of unfiled returns actually involves, or the only comparison available is price.
Credentials have to land immediately
Prospects know the difference between a CPA, an enrolled agent and a preparer with nothing but a PTIN, and some of them will check a state board lookup or the IRS preparer directory before they call. Licence, jurisdiction and who signs the return belong on the page, not buried in a bio.
Documents arrive before trust does
A public contact form that invites someone to attach a W-2 is a liability under the FTC Safeguards Rule and the written information security plan the IRS expects preparers to maintain. Intake has to qualify the engagement and then hand off to a portal, never collect return data itself.
Referral growth hides the gap
Firms that grew through attorneys, bankers and existing clients often rank for nothing but their own name. The person who just opened a CP2000 notice at midnight, or who formed an LLC last month, has no referral source to call.
You cannot advertise like a plumber
Circular 230 constrains how practitioners before the IRS may advertise, and IRC section 7216 means client information gathered through return preparation cannot be turned into marketing without proper written consent. Proof has to be built in a way that survives that.
How we work
How we sequence the work
We schedule builds against your filing calendar rather than ours. The heavy work goes into the window after October 15 or the May-to-August trough, and we freeze deploys through the season, so the only things touching the site between January and April are content and small conversion fixes we can roll back in a minute.
Then we split the site by engagement instead of by the word "services". Individual returns, S-corp and partnership returns, monthly bookkeeping and client accounting services, payroll, IRS notices and resolution, and advisory or fractional CFO work are separate purchases with separate searches behind them, and someone typing "catch up bookkeeping" is not the same buyer as someone typing "S corp accountant". Deadline and notice explainers get published ahead of the date they matter, which is what makes content compound in a seasonal business instead of arriving late.
Conversion work is where most accounting sites leak. We replace the generic contact box with an intake that asks entity type, filing states, tax years outstanding and current bookkeeping software, so the first call is already qualified, and we build capacity states you can switch on yourself: taking new clients, extension queue only, or closed to new 1040s. That last one matters, because CRO in this vertical is as much about turning away the wrong March enquiry as it is about capturing more of them.
What's included
What we build for accounting and tax firms
The pieces that recur across CPA, bookkeeping, tax preparation and resolution practices:
The process
How the engagement runs
Four stages, timed so the disruptive parts never land inside filing season.
Off-season audit
We start in the quiet window and map what the site currently ranks for against the engagements you want more of. Most firms find they rank for the firm name and one city, and nothing for the work with the best margin.
Practice-area map
We decide which engagements the site is going to sell hardest and which ones you are happy to keep taking by referral. Everything downstream, from page structure to intake questions, follows from that decision.
Build, portal handoff and launch
Design and development, credential and team structure, and intake wired to your existing portal so no return documents ever pass through a public form. Launch is scheduled well clear of January.
Local and technical SEO
Profile category and service configuration, consistent firm details across the directories that matter for licensed practitioners, and location pages for each office you are actually licensed to serve.
Season support, then the off-season push
Through the season we keep changes small and reversible. After April 15 and again after October 15 we review what converted and put the content work into the months when you have the capacity to review it.
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FAQ
Questions accounting and tax firms ask us
We are slammed until April. When should we actually rebuild?
Almost all our work comes from referrals. Why invest in search at all?
Can you use our clients in case studies and testimonials?
We do tax resolution. Is that different from a CPA firm site?
We are launching a new practice this year. Is this too early?
Do you work with other kinds of businesses too?
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