Charleston has great designers. What it’s short on is rebuilds that keep the rankings the old site spent years earning, built for how people here actually search: on a phone, often from out of town, usually in a hurry.
Get a Free Audit Call 843.582.0690A business spends months and five figures on a beautiful new website. It launches. Six weeks later organic traffic is way down, the form leads have dried up, and nobody can explain why. The design usually isn’t the problem.
The URLs changed and nobody mapped the redirects. Or the staging site shipped with noindex still on. Or every page inherited the same title. These aren’t rare failures. They’re what happens when nobody on the project owns how the site gets found.
This city has a real design scene, plus national shops that rank into the market from out of state. If what you need is a visually outstanding brand site, several local studios are a good call and we’ll say so.
Where we’re different is narrow: we’re a technical SEO firm that also builds, not a design studio that dabbles in SEO. The person planning your redirect map is the person accountable for your rankings in month six. In most Charleston projects those are two different companies, and the gap between them is where traffic gets lost.
So who should hire us? Companies that already rank for something worth keeping, companies whose site feeds a real sales pipeline, and businesses whose service area has to hold up across three counties. If your site is three pages and ranks for nothing, a local designer will serve you better and cost less.
Charleston’s buyers don’t look like Denver’s or Miami’s. The build has to fit who is actually searching.
Visitors plan on a phone from a hotel room or the car. The site has to load fast on a weak signal, show hours and location instantly, and handle the swing between peak season and the slow months. More on that in Charleston hospitality SEO.
The supply chain around the port and the region’s aerospace and automotive plants buys on specs, certifications and capacity. Capability pages and spec sheets need to survive a procurement review, not just look nice. See manufacturing SEO.
When a storm rolls through, roofing and HVAC searches spike overnight. Your site has to be fast, clear and one tap from a phone call when that happens. Read roofing SEO before hurricane season and Charleston HVAC SEO.
Summerville, Mount Pleasant, Daniel Island, James Island and West Ashley keep growing. If you serve them, each one gets a page that says something real about the work you do there, not a find-and-replace copy.
Ask anyone bidding on your project how many of these they own.
Every old URL mapped to its new home before launch, and checked against a live crawl, not a spreadsheet.
Copy in the HTML, not assembled by scripts a crawler may never run.
Each page keeps its own title and description instead of inheriting a template and competing with itself.
Business, service, FAQ and breadcrumb markup rebuilt on the new templates and validated.
Image weight, fonts and scripts handled during the build. Fixing speed after launch costs several times more.
Click-to-call up top and a form tested end to end. A site that looks better and converts worse is a failure.
WordPress for most of it. It’s what most Charleston businesses already run, and a well-built WordPress site is faster than its reputation. Shopify when the business is truly transactional, and we’ll tell you honestly when a store build is the wrong answer for your volume.
We won’t build on something only we can maintain. If we ever part ways, any competent Lowcountry developer should be able to pick up your site in an afternoon.
Not if the migration is done right, which is the whole reason to hire us. Expect a short dip while Google re-crawls. What we’re hired to prevent is the permanent drop nobody can explain.
Yes. We plan the site around your busy and slow seasons, keep hours, menus and booking easy to find on a phone, and make sure the pages visitors search for are ready before peak season, not during it.
Local quotes run from a few thousand for a template to well into five figures for custom work. Our engagements start at $1,000 a month, with the build usually inside a wider SEO program. See pricing.
Often. They own the look, we own the technical build and the search results. It works as long as someone is clearly accountable for the migration, and we’re happy to be that someone.
We run a local Charleston desk at (843) 582-0690 and travel for client meetings. We’re not going to rent a King Street mailbox and call it a studio.
We crawl the new site, confirm every redirect resolves, check indexing in Search Console and watch rankings weekly through the recovery window. Launch is the middle of the project, not the end.
Send us the site you have now. You’ll get an honest read on what’s worth keeping, what’s costing you, and whether you need a rebuild at all.
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