Web Design, SEO & Marketing for Austin, TX Businesses
Web design, local SEO, AI SEO, and Google Ads for Austin businesses. Hand-coded, sub-second sites and 27 years of SEO experience for the tech capital of Texas.
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What it takes to win customers in Austin, TX
Austin is the tech capital of Texas, the place they call Silicon Hills, where Tesla, Oracle, and a flood of relocated companies landed and where the University of Texas, the music scene, and SXSW keep the city young, affluent, and impatient. We build the hand-coded websites and run the local SEO and Google Ads that win that crowded, fast-moving market for businesses of all sizes here.
The owners who reach out to us usually got burned by an agency that torched a steep budget on undisciplined paid search in the most expensive click market in the state and had nothing organic to show for it. We start by fixing that and building something that compounds.
The work is hand-coded sites that load in under a second, local SEO that climbs the Austin Map Pack and Travis County searches, and structure that gets you cited by ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. No long-term contract, and reporting tied to real calls and booked work.
Where a wasted click costs the most in Texas
Austin has the priciest clicks in the state, so paid search punishes any business that runs it without discipline. A fast site and a compounding organic presence are the real edge, because every wasted click here costs more than it would anywhere else in Texas.
Austin carries the highest cost-per-click in Texas, so undisciplined ad spend bleeds fast.
Local SEO and AI search keep earning leads long after a paid budget runs dry.
Texas has no state income tax, a real reason companies keep relocating here from California.
Our Services for Austin Businesses
Four services that work together. Start with one or bundle them, each link goes to the full breakdown on our main service page.
Web Design in Austin
A fast, hand-coded Austin website that loads in under a second and looks the part to a young, design-aware, tech-literate buyer.
What this includes
- Hand-coded from scratch, no WordPress, themes, or page builders
- Sub-second load times and 95 to 100 Google PageSpeed scores
- Mobile-first layouts with tappable calls and lead forms
- Schema, clean URLs, and SEO structure built in from day one
Local SEO in Austin
Getting your Austin business into the Map Pack for Travis County searches so growth comes from organic leads, not just paid clicks.
What this includes
- Google Business Profile optimization and ongoing management
- City and service-area pages that compete in every market you serve
- Local citations, review strategy, and on-page optimization
- Tracking that ties rankings to the calls and forms they produce
AI SEO & GEO in Austin
A tech-forward city searches with AI first. We structure your business to be cited by ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews now, while it is still wide open.
What this includes
- Content and schema structured to be quoted by AI assistants
- Entity and answer optimization across local, organic, and generative results
- The technical foundation AI crawlers reward: speed, structure, clarity
- Built on 27 years of search experience, applied to how people search now
PPC & Google Ads in Austin
Disciplined Austin Google Ads built for the most expensive click market in Texas, with call tracking and no long-term contract so no budget gets wasted.
What this includes
- Google Ads and Local Services Ads built for your market
- Tightly themed campaigns that cut wasted spend
- Landing pages and call tracking wired to measure real ROI
- Transparent reporting and no long-term contracts
SEO and Web Design Results Behind Your Austin Project
Our client work spans local businesses and national brands. The sites and results below show the standard and the people behind your Austin project, from technical performance and design to local and AI search.
We Have Done This at Enterprise Scale
Before and alongside the local work, we ran SEO for national brands with millions riding on organic. Your Austin program receives the same research, technical care, and measurement behind these numbers.
FindLaw
FindLaw is the web’s biggest legal destination, a Thomson Reuters property that connects people to lawyers and legal information. The organic traffic we helped build there is valued at $49.5 million a year.
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LifeMD
LifeMD is a direct-to-patient telehealth company treating patients online across all 50 states. A rendering fix plus content architecture multiplied its organic visibility 100 times over in seven months.
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Credit Sesame
Credit Sesame gives millions of people free credit scores and monitoring. We built its organic traffic value past $5.5 million in the hardest category in SEO, competing against the credit bureaus themselves.
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iovation
iovation is a device-intelligence platform that banks and retailers use to stop fraud, later acquired by TransUnion. Its keyword footprint grew 51× across our multi-year engagement.
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We build for the businesses that drive the Travis County economy.
Technology & Startups
Software firms and startups competing in Silicon Hills for a tech-savvy audience.
Music & Entertainment
Venues, festivals, and creative businesses built on the live music capital reputation.
Food, Bars & Hospitality
Restaurants and bars fighting for visibility in a saturated, trend-driven scene.
Real Estate & Home Services
Agents and contractors serving a metro that keeps absorbing new arrivals.
We run a dedicated marketing site for your industry in Austin
If you are in one of these trades, we have a site built specifically for it, with Austin pages, industry-specific services, and proof from that trade. Start there instead.
Serving Austin and Greater Travis County
We build websites and run SEO for businesses throughout the Austin area. If your service area spans several communities, we target each one independently, and on your own site we build a page for every market you serve.
Tell us about your service areaOther Texas cities we work in
Running a business somewhere else in Texas? We build a dedicated page for every market we serve. Here is where else we work across the state.
“Best business decision I've ever made! Got ranked #1 in my area super fast and calls started coming in left and right. I guarantee you will make your ROI in no time and the team is very responsive and helpful.”
“For over a decade, they've kept my phone ringing and my caseload full. They're incredibly responsive and consistently keep my firm at the top of search results.”
“I can't say enough good things about these guys! Amazing company and I'll continue to refer them to everyone I know!”
“Michael delivered everything he promised and more. He has been responsive to our requests and intuitive about our needs. I highly recommend Michael for your web design and SEO needs.”
“We contracted with Michael to develop a series of websites concentrating on attorney marketing and the results have far exceeded expectations. Their results-oriented approach delivers a strong return on investment.”
“Michael is an expert at technical SEO who can align both product and business goals with organic traffic increases. He not only brings traffic but relevant converting traffic to the sites he works on.”
Austin, TX SEO and Web Design Questions
What Austin business owners ask us about web design, SEO, and getting found locally.
An agency burned a big budget on ads here and I got nothing. Why would Savo be different?
That story is common in Austin, where the priciest clicks in Texas make undisciplined paid search painful, and most of those firms never built anything organic to show for it. We hand-code your site and report on real calls and booked work instead of vanity metrics, with no long-term contract and senior people on the account. Send us your current site and we will tell you what it is missing.
Can you actually rank me organically so I depend less on paid clicks?
Yes, that is the whole point. Disciplined local SEO builds a presence that compounds and lowers how much you have to spend on Austin clicks over time.
My competitors all look polished. Does the website really move the needle?
In a young, tech-literate market it is the filter. A buyer here judges a slow or thin site in seconds, so we hand-code a fast, modern one that loads in under a second.
How should I think about Google Ads in such an expensive market?
Carefully. We run Google Ads with tight targeting and call tracking so a high Austin cost-per-click still returns booked work, not just traffic.
How much does a website or SEO cost in Austin?
Every project is custom-quoted to scope. Bundle a website with SEO and the build cost drops 25%. Reach out for a straight quote.
Do you only work with Austin businesses?
No. We are a Washington company serving businesses of all sizes across Texas, from Austin to the Dallas-Fort Worth metro and out to El Paso.
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