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Delmar, Delaware & Maryland

Web Design & SEO for Delmar Businesses

Two municipalities, two states, one town. Delmar has been split down the state line since 1859, and its businesses have to be findable on both sides of it.

Websites from $999, live in about a week.

5.0 on Google · 57 reviewsLewes, DE since 2012Read the reviews

Serving Delmar

The little town too big for one state

Delmar was founded in 1859 where the Delaware and Maryland railroad charters met — the name is a portmanteau of the two states. It is two separate municipalities: Delmar, Sussex County, Delaware and Delmar, Wicomico County, Maryland, together around 4,600 people. They share a sewer system from 1927 and consolidated schools from 1949.

For a business, that history is a present-day problem. Google treats Delaware and Maryland as different places, and a Delmar business optimised for only one of them is invisible to a customer standing a few hundred feet away in the other.

The Delmar market

One town, two sets of search results

Salisbury is six or seven miles south, and Delmar sits inside its metro area — so the practical market is larger than the town, and it crosses the line constantly. Getting the geography right in your listings and on the site is not a technicality here; it is most of the local SEO job.

Done properly it is an advantage. A business genuinely serving two states has twice the addressable market of one that only claims one of them.

We build for Delmar businesses like

  • Trucking and logistics operators on US 13
  • Auto and diesel repair
  • Home-services contractors working both states
  • Poultry-industry service and supply firms
  • Small restaurants and convenience retail
  • Businesses serving the Salisbury metro
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Questions from Delmar

What Delmar businesses usually ask us

Do we need to say both Delaware and Maryland?

Yes, and in the right places — separate pages, correct service areas in your listings, and consistency across directories. Mixing the two on one page is the usual reason Delmar sites rank for neither.

Which state should our Google listing use?

Wherever your premises actually is, with a service area covering both. Claiming an address you do not have is how listings get suspended.

Should we target Salisbury as well?

For most Delmar businesses, yes — it is the larger market and it is seven miles away. It deserves its own page rather than a mention.

Are you nearby?

About an hour from our Lewes office, and we work with businesses across Delmarva. Nearly all of it happens by phone and email in any case.

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We also work with businesses in Salisbury, Laurel, Seaford, Bridgeville, Blades, Bethel and across the Delaware–Maryland line. Not in the neighborhood? We build and support websites for clients all over the country — the process works just as well over a phone call.

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Tell us about your business. We will tell you what it costs.

Name and email are all it takes to start. A real Goober reads it, works out what fits, and replies with a number during business hours — Mon–Fri, 9–5.

5.0 on Google · 57 reviewsLewes, DE since 2012

Prefer to talk it through? 302-645-7177, Mon–Fri 9–5.

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