Multilingual websites and SEO for Montréal companies
In Montréal, French comes first by law. We help you comply while still reaching customers who search in English or Spanish.
- Location
- Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Local time
- — · Eastern Time: Montréal is one hour ahead of Torreón in winter and two hours ahead in summer
- Currency
- CAD
- Population
- About 1.8 million in the city and more than 4 million in the metro area
- How we work
- Video calls · bilingual team
Mercado Monkey is a bilingual digital agency based in Torreón, Mexico that works with Montréal businesses on Web development, SEO, Custom software, Digital marketing — remotely, in your time zone, since 2017.
Montréal's economy is distinctive: a global aerospace center home to Bombardier, CAE and Pratt & Whitney Canada, an AI research hub built around Mila, major game studios like Ubisoft, life sciences, a busy port, and a restaurant and tourism scene that draws visitors year-round. All of it operates in a city that works primarily in French, with a sizeable English-speaking minority and a large, entrepreneurial Latin American community. Choosing which language goes where on a website is a business decision here, and a legal one.
Quebec's Charter of the French Language, strengthened by Bill 96, requires commercial information to be available in French with no other language given better treatment. We build sites with a multilingual structure from day one, with French as the primary version (built from your French copy or your translator's), and English and Spanish written by our own team. We also run SEO separately for each language so every version ranks on its own merit. Nearshore pricing helps when a project needs three languages instead of one.
Hispanic market. Montréal has a large, well-established Latin American community with roots in Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador, Peru and Chile, and Spanish is one of the most widely spoken non-official languages in a city that works primarily in French.
What we do for businesses in Montréal
Web development
Fast, search-ready websites built so Montréal customers actually contact you.
See service SEOSEO
Rank in Google Search and Google Maps for local searches in Montréal.
See service Custom softwareCustom software
Internal systems, portals and dashboards shaped around how your Montréal team works.
See service Digital marketingDigital marketing
Meta Ads and Google Ads targeted to Montréal, tracked with real conversions.
See serviceBuilt for Montréal's economy
Aerospace and advanced manufacturing
Technical corporate sites in French and English for suppliers selling to the region's major manufacturers.
Tech and AI startups
Nearshore software development and product sites for startups that need engineering capacity without local hiring.
Education and language schools
Multilingual sites with online enrollment and campaigns for schools welcoming international students.
Restaurants and tourism
French and English menus and reservations, plus local SEO to compete in the Plateau, Mile End and Old Montréal.
Latino-owned retail and services
French and Spanish sites for businesses serving the Latin American community while staying compliant.
Areas we serve in Montréal
- Centre-ville
- Vieux-Montréal
- Plateau-Mont-Royal
- Mile End
- Saint-Laurent
- Laval
Montréal searches split between French and English depending on the neighborhood, and Google treats each language as its own market. Machine-translated sites tend to underperform in both. Google Maps and reviews drive restaurant and service decisions, while B2B relies heavily on LinkedIn. In the Latin American community, Facebook and Instagram remain the main channels for recommendations and discovery, often in Spanish.
Montréal is one hour ahead of Torreón in winter and two hours ahead in summer, so we start early to overlap with your morning. Work runs on video calls and a shared project board. Invoices can be in CAD or USD, with contracts in English or Spanish. The French version is handled with native professional translators and sent to you for review before anything goes live.
Results we can show
How we get started
- 01
30-minute call
Tell us what you sell, who buys it and what isn't working. Free.
- 02
Audit and proposal
We review your site, Google Business Profile and local competitors, then send scope, timeline and deliverables.
- 03
Weekly sprints
Progress every week on a shared board plus a short video call to approve.
- 04
Launch and measure
We go live, wire up Analytics and conversions, and report what moves month by month.

