A keynote site
engineered for the
ten-tab moment.
Event planners open ten tabs, watch three seconds of each sizzle reel, and pick two speakers to email. This is the site engineered to be one of the two.
Sizzle-reel hero
The first three seconds are audience reaction, not a static photo. Autoplay muted, loop, poster-frame optimised. Planners see you speak before they see your face.
One URL per topic
Every signature keynote gets its own page: promise, audience, learning outcomes, testimonial from an organiser who booked that talk, PDF download. This is how you rank.
Event-planner speed
Sub-2s LCP on throttled 3G on a five-year-old Windows laptop. Because that's the environment corporate procurement actually uses.
“Event planners do not read your bio. They watch three seconds of your reel and read the first bullet under one topic.”
What ships
- → Sizzle-reel-first responsive hero
- → One page per signature keynote topic
- → Organiser testimonials with logo strip
- → Person + VideoObject + Event schema
- → Downloadable one-sheet PDF
- → Contact + booking flow with anti-spam
- → Core Web Vitals in the green on 3G
- → Cross-tested on iPad, corporate Chrome, iOS Safari
- → AI-search-ready structured content
- → Google Knowledge Panel starter checklist
- → 90-day post-launch tune-up window
- → Handover video walkthrough
FAQ
What does a keynote speaker website actually need on page one?
One clear positioning line (who you speak to, what shifts after), a 60-90 second sizzle reel that starts on a live-audience laugh or applause, a credibility strip of stage logos above the fold, three signature keynote topic cards, one primary CTA (Check Availability), and an event-planner one-sheet PDF within one click. Everything else is decoration.
Why do most keynote speaker websites lose bookings?
Three failures, over and over. The hero is a huge locked-in photo instead of the sizzle reel, so planners never see you speak. The topics are one page called Speaking with a wall of bullet points instead of one dedicated URL per keynote. There is no obvious price signal or fee band, so planners assume you're either too expensive or not premium. Fix those three and booking inquiries roughly double from the same traffic.
Should each keynote topic get its own page?
Yes, always. One page per signature talk with the promise, the audience, learning outcomes, sample takeaways, a testimonial from an organiser who booked that exact talk, and a direct download of the topic PDF. This is how Google ranks you for '[topic] keynote speaker' and how planners email you a link inside their organisation. A single Speaking page collapses all of that into invisibility.
WordPress or Squarespace for a keynote speaker?
WordPress with a hand-coded block theme if you want to rank and control performance. Squarespace if you never want to touch it and are fine ranking only for your own name. I build on WordPress because event planners open ten tabs on a corporate laptop and the site that loads first wins. Squarespace speed on 3G corporate wifi is not a fight worth taking.
How much does a keynote speaker website cost?
Standard build $4,800 flat: 5 pages, sizzle-reel edit from your existing footage, one-sheet PDF, schema, contact and booking flow, Core Web Vitals in the green. Premium $8,400: adds per-topic pages, blog engine, and a 90-day speaker SEO sprint. Ongoing speaker SEO from $1,200 per month post-launch.
How long does the build take?
Three to four weeks end to end. Week 1: positioning, wireframes, copy interview, footage review. Week 2: design. Week 3: build and schema. Week 4: content load, cross-device QA, launch. Rush builds available for pre-tour launches at a flat rush fee.
Do you handle the sizzle reel edit and headshots?
I edit your existing conference footage into a 60-90 second reel that opens on the moment of audience reaction, and I format your headshots for web (progressive JPEG, art-directed crops at each breakpoint). If you need new filming or photography, I brief and direct a local crew. Their fee is separate.