Charleston, WV
Web Design & Digital Marketing in Charleston, WV
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Rankwyre builds custom websites, ecommerce stores, web apps, CRM systems and dashboards for Charleston businesses in West Virginia, then runs the SEO, Google Maps and ads that bring in customers.
- Websites, stores and web apps for Charleston businesses
- Most websites live in about 7 days
- SEO and Google Maps across West Virginia
LOCAL BUSINESS
Who does business in Charleston
Kanawha County, the area the Census counts for Charleston, had 4,396 business locations in 2023, down 87 from 4,483 in 2022. That is a drop of 1.9%, and 45% of the locations have fewer than 5 employees.
- Retail stores61314%
- Health care60314%
- Repair and personal services58513%
- Professional services42810%
Retail stores are the biggest group at 613 locations, which is 13.9% of the county against 15.9% across WV. Health care sits right behind at 603, but it lost 42 locations since 2022, down 6.5%. If you run a practice, our websites for dental practices page shows how we set one up.
Repair and personal services is the one group that grew, from 575 locations to 585. It makes up 13.3% of the county, ahead of the 11.9% share for WV. Shops in this group can start with websites for barbershops.
Professional services hold 9.7% here compared with 7.5% across WV, and real estate fell by 8 to 209 locations, down 3.7%.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022 and 2023, business establishments by industry.
LOCAL INSIGHT
Charleston WV sells to a whole valley, not just one city
USAFacts puts Kanawha County at about 172,400 residents in 2025, the most populous county in West Virginia with 9.8 percent of the state. The Charleston Area Alliance, formed in 2004 from three earlier groups, serves the Kanawha Valley and lists the City of Charleston, the City of South Charleston and Kanawha County as partners. Customers search by what is near them rather than by city limits, so a Charleston business is often competing with ones in South Charleston too.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 99,150 jobs in the Charleston metro area in May 2021. Office and administrative support was the largest group at 15,220, followed by healthcare practitioners at 9,430 and sales at 8,380. The Alliance also runs a downtown housing initiative and the City Center Business Improvement District, and it manages the LIFT Center advanced manufacturing site. Many office and clinic workers are on a lunch hour when they search, and they pick the place that shows its address and hours first.
Rankwyre builds websites for downtown Charleston restaurants, law offices and clinics, and sets up the Google Maps and local listings that cover South Charleston and the rest of the valley.
Charleston, WV
Charleston at a glance
Charleston is the capital of West Virginia, in the South region of the country. Rankwyre also builds for businesses in Huntington, Morgantown, the other two cities on our West Virginia list.
HOW WE WORK
How we work with Charleston businesses.
Here is how a project goes when a Charleston business hires us, from the first conversation to a site that is live and kept up.
Talk it through first.
A short call to map out what you need. You get a price in writing before any work starts, so nothing is open ended.
Drafts you can react to.
We design and build in drafts, sending you a preview at each stage so you can say what to change while it is cheap to change.
Show up for the right searches.
We set up your Google Business Profile, local listings and service-area pages, so people looking for what you do can find you.
Live, then looked after.
Your site launches in about 7 days, hosting and updates are included, and we stay reachable after launch.
SELECTED WORK
Projects closest to Charleston's biggest industries.
A few projects we have built for other small businesses, to give you a feel for the range before we talk about yours.
RELATED
Industries and nearby areas
What we build for businesses like yours in Charleston, plus the other cities near Charleston we work in.
Industries we work with
Nearby areas we serve
BUILD YOURS
Get a website that brings in Charleston customers.
Pick a plan that fits, or tell us what your business needs and we will point you to the right one.
BEFORE YOU ASK
Questions from Charleston businesses
Which kinds of businesses make up Kanawha County?
Retail stores are the biggest group with 613 locations, then health care at 603 and repair and personal services at 585. Professional services come to 428 and restaurants and hospitality to 423, out of 4,396 locations in the county.
Which nearby West Virginia areas do you cover?
We also have pages for Huntington and Morgantown, and we work with businesses anywhere in the US. The $399 a month website plan carries a $299 setup fee, and the price is written down before we start.
Is there a setup fee for a Charleston business?
Websites have a $299 one time setup fee and online stores have a $499 one time setup fee. SEO has no setup fee. Websites start at $399 a month and stores at $499 a month.
Questions about a specific service? See the full FAQ.
