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Hand-built websites · Alexander County, N.C.
Web design & SEO in Taylorsville, NC picked by hand, packed to sell.
Taylorsville Web Studio builds websites for the shops, trades, farms and offices of Alexander County's seat. Each one is written line by line, quick on a phone and yours to keep. Roger Johnson does the work himself and answers his own phone.
Sorted four ways
What the studio does
Start with the one you need this season. The rest can wait until it makes sense, and it all comes from the same person.
Bin 01
Websites
Written from a blank file for one business, with a page for each kind of job you want more of.
From $2,497
Bin 02
Local SEO
Steady monthly work so people searching around Taylorsville find you before the bigger towns crowd you out.
Priced after a free look
Bin 03
Google profile
A step-by-step playbook for your Business Profile. You keep full control; Roger coaches and checks the work.
Comes with every build
Bin 04
Site care
Fast hosting, a security certificate, someone watching for outages and small edits sent by text or email.
$49 to $149 a month
Small town, wide search
Word of mouth still works here. It just ends in a search.
Taylorsville counted 2,320 residents in the 2020 census, and all of Alexander County about 36,444. In a place that size, a neighbor's recommendation still carries real weight. But the recommendation usually finishes on a phone: someone hears your name at the Apple Festival or in line at the courthouse, then looks you up before they call.
What they find decides it. A Facebook page nobody has touched since 2021, or a site that crawls on a phone, and the referral stalls. The town is part of the Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton metro, and US 64 runs straight to Statesville and Lenoir, so Google happily lists businesses from those bigger towns right beside you. Here's how local search sorts that out.
What goes into a site- Year the county seat was laid out
- 1847
- Residents, 2020 census
- 2,320
- Acres donated for the first town lots
- 46¾
- Feet high at Hickory Knob, the county's top
- 2,560
A year in the Apple Town
Your busy season and your website's job
Taylorsville calls itself the gateway to the Brushy Mountains, a ridge known for its fruit orchards. The town's calendar follows the apple, and your marketing can follow it too.
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Spring
Apple Blossom Festival
The town-sponsored spring festival brings the first big downtown crowd of the year, held on the first Saturday in May.
On your site: Check your hours, photos and service list now, before the busy months.
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Summer
Concerts on the Rotary Stage
Free evening shows at Alexander County Courthouse Park, and orchards north of town usually start picking apples in August.
On your site: Add fresh photos of real jobs. Pictures from this month beat stock photos every time.
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Fall
Taylorsville Apple Festival
Vendor booths fill the downtown streets for a full day. In 2026 it falls on Saturday, October 17.
On your site: Festival visitors look businesses up afterward. Your phone number should match everywhere it appears.
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Winter
Hometown Christmas
Thursday evenings in December at Courthouse Park, plus the Alexander County Christmas Parade through town.
On your site: Slow weeks are the time to build: a new service page, a price list, or a whole new site for spring.
From first call to launch
Four rows to walk
Walk the rows
A phone call first. You describe the business, the towns you cover and the work you'd like more of. Roger shares what he spotted on your current site, if you have one.
Sort and grade
Roger drafts the page list and writes the words himself, built around what people in Alexander County actually type into Google. You read it before any design starts.
Build and test
The site is written by hand, checked on phones of every size and run through real form submissions. Three rounds of changes are included.
Ship it
Half the price is due at the start and the other half when the finished site is delivered for your review. Once you sign off, it goes live and care begins.
Recent builds
Real projects, real hometowns
There's no Taylorsville client on this list yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. Each label shows where that business actually is. Read the project notes.
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Ongoing search work for a real estate agent around the lake, with pages written for the waterfront neighborhoods buyers ask about by name.
Tied to the crate
What clients wrote about Roger
Copied word for word from Google reviews. See all three with context.
Priced by the crate
Three build sizes, prices printed plainly
Each build has a fixed price and a monthly care plan that starts at launch. Local SEO is the one thing quoted case by case. Payment terms and add-ons.
Peck size
Starter
$2,497
plus $49 monthly care once it launches
- A site of five pages or fewer
- About a week from kickoff to launch
- A call button and short quote form everywhere
- Search Console and your Google profile tied in on day one
Suits a business people already know by name. They mostly want your hours, your number and a reason to trust you, fast.
Working with a thin budget this year? Ring Roger and ask about the pay-monthly route to this exact Starter site. (828) 795-2110
Room to grow
Half bushel
Growth
$4,497
plus $99 monthly care once it launches
- Eight to twelve pages
- About two weeks from kickoff to launch
- Every main service on its own page
- Reviews and job photos placed where people decide
Built for owners with several lines of work, since every service with a page of its own has another chance to be found.
Full bushel
Custom
From $8,500
plus $149 monthly care once it launches
- Twelve to fifteen pages, or more
- About three weeks from kickoff to launch
- Page list planned from real search data
- Pages for other towns only where you really take jobs
Meant for outfits offering a big menu or covering wide ground, from Taylorsville out toward Hickory, Statesville and Lenoir.
Before you ask
Four common questions
You're in Mooresville. Is that too far away?
It's about 36 miles, a little under an hour up I-77 to Statesville and then west on NC 90. Roger is glad to drive up and sit down with you at the start. After that, nearly everything moves over the phone, through email or on a shared screen, which saves both of you a lot of windshield time.
Do I own the website when it's done?
Yes. The domain, the words, the photos and the code all belong to your business. We host it for you on the care plan, but you can take it elsewhere whenever you like.
Is this a WordPress or Wix site?
Neither. Each page is written by hand in plain code. Nothing bulky sits between a visitor and your phone number, and there's no admin login for anyone to break into.
How soon could a site be live?
A Starter site usually takes about a week, Growth about two and Custom about three. The biggest factor is how quickly photos and feedback come back to Roger.
Want a straight number for your site?
Send a few details. Roger studies your current site, types in what a Taylorsville customer would type, then emails a price. No pressure, no follow-up calls you didn't ask for.