Local SEO
46%
of all Google searches have local intent.
76% of "near me" searches on a phone turn into a store visit within 24 hours. We make sure your business is one of the ones they find.
Newport, AR · Jackson County
Modern digital work for Newport small businesses.
Local SEO, modern websites, AI search, and social media management for Newport small businesses — run by a Walnut Ridge firm thirty-five miles up Highway 67. Same White River corridor, same buyers.
The market we know
A White River seat where Highway 67 brings the buyers.
Newport is the seat of Jackson County, sitting on the west bank of the White River where Highway 67 and Highway 14 cross. About 8,000 people, with Arkansas State University–Newport drawing students and the river bringing through-traffic, anglers, and fishing tournaments through downtown. The agricultural economy that built the town — rice, soybeans, cotton — still matters; so does the smaller industrial base along the rail corridor and the highway.
What that means for a small business in Newport: your customers are a mix of regulars who know exactly which Newport business they want and visitors who are looking for whatever’s good and nearby. That second group searches before they buy. “Restaurants in Newport AR,” “auto repair Newport,” “hotel near White River” — the queries that decide whether they pull off the highway or keep going to Batesville or Jonesboro.
We run Local SEO and Google Business Profile work for businesses up and down this corridor. We know which Newport businesses are showing up in the Map Pack for the queries that pay rent and which ones aren’t. The ones that aren’t are usually a Google Business Profile audit and a few citation cleanups away from being there. That’s the kind of work we do — and the lift in calls usually shows up inside thirty to sixty days.
The numbers
Where your next customer is actually looking.
AI Search
400M+
people ask ChatGPT for recommendations every week.
Google's AI Overviews now appear on roughly 1 in 5 searches. If you're not cited there, you're invisible to a growing share of buyers.
Web Design
53%
of mobile users leave a site that takes more than 3 seconds to load.
75% judge a business's credibility by its website alone. We build fast, modern sites that turn visitors into customers.
Roger Pemberton
Founder, Kotik Solutions
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
Who runs it
Hi — I'm Roger. I'm thirty-five miles up the road in Walnut Ridge.
Kotik Solutions is in Walnut Ridge, north of you on Highway 67 — close enough to know the Newport market and run by someone who works in this corner of Arkansas every day. I grew up around small-town businesses, spent two decades doing IT, graphic design, and digital marketing, and started Kotik to bring modern web, SEO, and AI-search work to small businesses up and down this corridor. If you're a Newport or Jackson County owner, get in touch. The audit is free, and if we're not the right fit I'll point you somewhere we can help.
More about KotikWhy Kotik
A small firm, working directly with the people next door.
No offshore pools, no sales-chain handoffs, no overhead you're paying for that doesn't show up in your work.
Up Highway 67 from Newport
We're thirty-five miles north in Walnut Ridge — close enough to know Newport, the White River corridor, and how Jackson County buyers actually search. No metro overhead, no offshore handoffs.
Fixed pricing
Every engagement is quoted up front after a free audit. No hourly billing, no surprise add-ons, no mid-project rate changes.
No long contracts
Month-to-month on marketing work. Fixed-price for websites. We'd rather keep clients because the work is working.
Real reports
Plain-English monthly updates. What was done, what it produced, what's next — tied to a metric that pays.
What we do for Newport
Four services. One job: getting you found.
Bundle everything, or pick the pieces you need. Every engagement is scoped to your business and your budget.
Local SEO
Show up in the Map Pack.
Google Business Profile, citations, reviews, and on-page work that puts your business in the three Google shows when neighbors search "near me."
More about Local SEO
AI Search Optimization
Be the business AI recommends.
Schema, llms.txt, and quotable content shaped so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews cite your business when buyers ask.
More about AI Search
Web Design & Development
A website that works for you.
Modern, static-first sites that load fast, rank well, and convert visitors into calls. We handle the hosting; you keep ownership.
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Social Media Management
A steady monthly rhythm.
We plan, write, design, and post — and monitor the inbox so nothing urgent slips by. Customer replies stay with you, in your voice.
More about Social MediaNearby towns we serve
Working across Northeast Arkansas.
Newport is one of the towns we run web, Local SEO, AI search, and social work for. Here are the closest others — same corner of the state, same kind of work.
Start with a free audit
No pressure. No strings. Just a plan.
Tell us what you're trying to grow and what you've already tried. We review your site, your Google Business Profile, and your AI search visibility, then send back a prioritized punch list of what to fix and what to keep.
Audits are returned in writing within five business days.