SWS — Stourbridge Web Studio, home
Stourbridge / West Midlands / 2026

Web design &developmentthat gets found.

  • / design
  • / development
  • / SEO
  • / local search

Stourbridge Web Studio designs, builds and grows distinctive websites for ambitious businesses across Stourbridge and the West Midlands.

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02 / Why

Your business shouldn’t look smaller online than it is in real life.

Plenty of excellent businesses are still represented by dated, slow or generic websites. We fix that.

03 / Work

Project / 001 — featured

Your
Local
Mechanic

Location
Stourbridge / Dudley
Scope
Web design
Custom development
Local SEO
Content

5×

Call growth after launch

A Dudley garage with a great reputation and a website that hid it. We rebuilt the site around the jobs people actually search for, then made sure Google could find every one of them.

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Redesign
+ local SEO
12 months

04 / Services

One website.
three disciplines.

Design, development and search are decided together, from the first conversation. That is the whole point.

Web designDistinctive, art-directed websites that look like your business at its best.
  • / Brand-led art direction
  • / Typography & layout systems
  • / UX and conversion design
  • / Mobile-first composition
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DevelopmentHand-built front-ends that load fast, score well and stay maintainable.
  • / Next.js & React
  • / Core Web Vitals engineering
  • / CMS & integrations
  • / Accessibility by default
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SEOTechnical and content SEO designed in from day one, not bolted on at the end.
  • / Technical audits & fixes
  • / Search intent & content
  • / Structured data
  • / AI search visibility
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Local SEOGet found by the people nearby who are already searching for what you do.
  • / Google Business Profile
  • / Local landing pages
  • / Reviews & citations
  • / Map pack visibility
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05 / Manifesto

A beautiful website nobody finds is still a bad website.

Most agencies treat search as an add-on. Most SEO firms treat design as decoration. We think that split is why so many business websites look fine and do nothing. Every site we build is planned around how people search, what they need to see, and how fast it loads, before a single pixel is drawn.

06 / SEO

SEO, treated as engineering.

Not mysterious marketing. A sequence of decisions, each one checkable, each one built into the website rather than sprinkled on afterwards.

  1. 01Search
  2. 02Structure
  3. 03Content
  4. 04Technical
  5. 05Local
  6. 06Measure

Specification / what is covered

Technical SEO
Crawlability, indexing, rendering, canonicals, redirects.
Internal linking
Every important page reachable, every link earning its place.
Schema
Structured data so Google understands who you are and what you do.
Local visibility
Map pack, service areas, location relevance built into the site.
Google Business Profile
Set up, categorised, photographed, reviewed and kept alive.
Search intent
Pages planned around what people type, not what you want to say.
Core Web Vitals
LCP, INP and CLS treated as engineering targets, not afterthoughts.
Content
Useful answers, written by people who understand the trade.
AI search visibility
Clear, citable structure for answer engines and AI overviews.
SEO services Local SEO
07 / Results

Results

500%

More calls

95+

Performance

Lighthouse, mobile, production build

4.3★

Google

Average client review rating

We only publish numbers we can stand behind. No vanity metrics, no rounding up, no screenshots of dashboards nobody understands.

08 / Stourbridge

Built in
Stourbridge.
Seen everywhere.

We’re based in Stourbridge and work with businesses across the Black Country, Worcestershire and the wider West Midlands. Local enough to meet for a coffee. Good enough that you would not need to.

  • Wollaston
  • Pedmore
  • Wordsley
  • Hagley
  • Kingswinford
  • Kinver
  • Dudley
  • Halesowen
  • Kidderminster
  • Bromsgrove

Stourbridge Web Studio serves Stourbridge, Pedmore, Wollaston, Wordsley, Hagley, Kinver, Kingswinford, Dudley, Halesowen, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove.

09 / Process

No mysterious
agency process.

Six stages. Each one has a start, an end and something you can see.

  1. 01 /Talk

    A proper conversation about your business, your customers and what a better website has to do.

  2. 02 /Plan

    Search research, page structure and a written scope. You know what you are getting before we start.

  3. 03 /Design

    Art direction first, then real pages. Typography, layout and content designed together.

  4. 04 /Build

    Hand-coded, fast and accessible. Tested on real phones, not just a resized browser.

  5. 05 /Launch

    Redirects, analytics, Search Console, schema and a launch checklist we actually follow.

  6. 06 /Grow

    Content, local SEO and measurement so the site keeps earning its keep after launch.

10 / Insights

Useful things
we know.

Straight answers to the questions business owners actually ask us. No agency blog.

Why doesn't my business show up on Google?How much should a business website cost in 2026?Why is my website getting traffic but no enquiries?What is local SEO?Do Google reviews improve local rankings?Should I redesign my business website?
All insights
11 / Contact

Got a website
you secretly hate?

Start a project

Or just email

hello@stourbridgewebstudio.co.uk