Hi, I'm Dave Coleman.

I've been building websites for over twenty years — long enough to watch the trends come and go, and to know exactly what works for a small business that just wants the phone to ring. I spent years at a US agency on bigger, more demanding projects, then came back to Dublin to do the same standard of work for Irish businesses, without the agency price tag.

Most local businesses are sold websites by people who have never had to make one actually rank and convert. The website is the easy part. The real work is getting the right people to find it and pick up the phone — and that's the part most web designers quietly skip.

I've worked across trades, hospitality, clinics and professional services — enough to know the difference between a website that looks the part and one that brings in work. With tradespeople, the pattern is always the same: brilliant at the job, invisible on Google. The work goes to whoever turns up first in the search, not whoever is best with a wrench.

Why I built Ranksy

Ranksy is how I fix that at scale. It's the same local SEO and web design principles I use at daveacoleman.com, applied specifically to the Irish trades market — a fast, mobile-first website on your own domain, a Google Business Profile set up properly, and ranking that puts you in front of customers searching for your trade in your county. One tradesperson per area, live the same day, for €99 a month instead of a few thousand up front.

It's proof that what I build isn't theoretical. I've applied it at scale, across every trade and all 26 counties — and if your goal is simply more trade jobs, owning your own search results is the most reliable way to get them.

Every year I build one Irish charity or community group a proper website, free, nominated by the public. The groups doing the most good shouldn't be stuck with the worst websites. It's a small thing, but it keeps me honest about why I do this work in the first place — you can read more about The One over on daveacoleman.com.