The Journal

Notes from Main Street.

Web design, small business, local SEO, and what actually works for brick-and-mortar shops across the Southeast. No "10 things you need to know" listicles. Real notes from real builds.

Local SEO · · 9 min read

Web design for Huntsville, AL small businesses: what actually works.

Huntsville passed Birmingham to become Alabama's largest city, and it's adding roughly eighteen new residents a day. Here's what a Rocket City small business website actually needs to get found — and what's just expensive noise.

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Local SEO · · 8 min read

Web design for Madison, AL small businesses: what actually works.

Madison's the fastest-growing city in Alabama — and the businesses that grow with it are the ones whose websites do the talking before the door opens. Here's what we've learned building sites for shops in the Tennessee Valley and across the Southeast.

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