Cadabra is a Des Moines agency. We build fast, custom websites for businesses across the metro, from West Des Moines to Ankeny, and set every one up to show up in local search and count the customers it brings in.
Des Moines Mobile Medicine. Monthly Google Search impressions, May to August 2026, on the brand and site we built.
Practices, nonprofits and a historic house, all a short drive from our desk. Every one of them is a real client you can go and look at.
Nonprofit housing
Turning two hotels into nearly 200 permanent supportive homes. We built the whole brand from scratch, then the website, the social accounts and the Google Ads.
+315% Organic search clicks, year over year
Historic house museum and event venue
We redesigned the site and have kept it fast since. The time the homepage spends frozen on a phone is down 75 percent from when we took it on.
Six optical locations across central Iowa
A Des Moines fixture with six locations, and a site that has to make each one easy to find. We handled the design, the email marketing and the paid search.
When someone in Urbandale searches for what you sell, Google picks from businesses it is confident are nearby, open and real. A good-looking site is the start. These four things are what get it chosen.
Everything every Cadabra site ships with01
The map results come from your Business Profile, and Google checks it against your website. Same name, same address, same hours, same categories. We connect the two and make sure they match on launch day.
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If you cover Ankeny and Waukee, the site should say so in a way a person would find useful. A footer list of forty towns does not help a reader, and it does not help you rank either.
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Structured data on every page says what you do, where you are and which areas you cover. It gives ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews something reliable to read when someone asks them for a recommendation nearby.
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Forms, bookings and phone taps are tracked as conversions from day one, so you can see which pages earn their place. You see it in the Cadabra dashboard, live.
We are in Des Moines, and most of our work is for businesses within an hour of it. We know the local search results you are up against, and what a slow February looks like for an Iowa business.
Further out? We build for businesses across Iowa and beyond too. The process is the same.
You get a written scope and a fixed quote before any work starts, and no invoice you were not expecting.
From $4,500
A fixed price against a written scope. Half to start, half on completion.
4 to 8 weeks
From kickoff to launch for most sites. You get a realistic estimate before we start.
Hosting included
On any monthly plan. On its own it is $100 a month, with security, backups and monitoring.
Yes. We work anywhere in the metro, from West Des Moines and Clive to Ankeny, Urbandale, Johnston and Waukee, and as far out as Ames. We also build for businesses elsewhere in Iowa and beyond. The process is the same wherever you are.
Cadabra websites start at $4,500, quoted as a fixed price against a written scope before any work begins. Half is due at the start and half on completion. Hosting is included on any monthly plan, or $100 a month on its own. E-commerce and custom integrations are quoted separately.
It helps, but it is not the whole answer. The map results lean hardest on your Google Business Profile, your reviews and how close the searcher is. The website backs the profile up with a matching name, address and hours, a page for each service, and structured data that says where you work. We connect and check your Business Profile as part of every build.
Most projects launch in 4 to 8 weeks. The timeline depends on the size of the site, how quickly we get content and feedback from you, and the integrations involved.
Yes, and most of our projects are redesigns. We audit your current site first, keep what is working, and redirect every old address to its new one so the rankings you have built up come with you.
Yes. You get a training session at handoff, and changing your hours, a photo or a promotion does not need us.
Ready when you are
Start with the audit. It reads your site the way Google and the AI assistants do, and tells you what is wrong with it. Free, about sixty seconds, and nobody has to call you.