Edwardsville · Metro East

More of your people
Finding you first

Custom web design for local businesses in Edwardsville and the Metro East, built in 48 hours, at a flat price, by the person who answers the phone.

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I have had 3 website builders in the past 5 years and also tried to do it myself with Squarespace. Jake is hands down the best.
Aaron Marmon · Google review
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68%of US Google searches ended without a click in early 2026.*

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Built for buyers, not browsers

We don't chase traffic. We build for the searches that end in a phone call

A thousand people a month search "how to fix a leaky faucet." Twenty search "emergency plumber near me." The twenty are your customers. Every page we build is aimed at the person with the problem, the budget, and the intention to hire someone this week. So when they search, they find you. And when they find you, they call.

He handled everything on the design and layout improvements AND helped me to get clients who search using AI platforms.
Marshall Gevers · Google review
The fourth option

Three options have failed local business. Here is the fourth

Every local business owner has tried two of these and considered the third. None of them respect the standard you hold yourself to.

Option 1

Big Agency

  • $12,000 floor, easy
  • 3-month timeline
  • Discovery you can't afford
  • Account-manager middlemen
  • Site you can barely afford to update
Option 2

Wix or Squarespace

  • You build it on Sundays
  • Looks like every template
  • Platform fee forever
  • Embarrassing to share
  • You secretly avoid showing it
Option 3

Upwork Freelancer

  • You become the project manager
  • Ghosts halfway through
  • No ongoing relationship
  • No accountability
  • You start over in six months
LocalCraft Digital
Option 4

The Fourth Option

  • Agency quality, 48 hours
  • Priced like a utility
  • Updates handled, live in 24 hours
  • One human who lives in town
  • Keep the site if you ever leave
Main Street in Edwardsville, Illinois. The storefronts, lampposts, and Main Street America fabric of the Metro East.
Who this is for

Built for the
people who built
this town

The plumber who's answered phones at 6 a.m. for twenty years. The chiropractor whose parking lot fills every Monday. The salon owner whose chair stays booked through the holidays. The HVAC tech whose wife runs the schedule. The accountant the whole town recommends.

You built something real. The website that represents it should match.

What's included

Everything a local business website should have

Every build ships with this list. No upsell layers. No nickel-and-diming for the parts that matter.

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Custom 5‑page site

Designed for your business, your audience, your voice. No template.

02

Mobile‑first conversion

Sticky click‑to‑call header. One‑tap text, map, and inquiry actions.

03

Lead capture + follow‑up

Smart forms with automated email and SMS replies in seconds, not days.

04

Modern framework stack

The same generation of tools your banking app runs on. Sub‑second loads.

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Local SEO foundation

Google Business Profile, schema markup, NAP consistency from day one.

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AEO for AI search

Structured so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews can answer with you.

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Hosting, SSL, backups

Daily backups. Security monitoring. Uptime that does not need watching.

08

Built to work guarantee

If your site isn't turning visitors into calls and inquiries, I keep refining it until it does.

See the full feature list
After launch

A launched site is not a finished site

Buy the build outright at $7,997 and owe nothing after. Or start it at $3,997 and keep me working on it: search, AI answers, speed, and whatever you want changed. Craft is the best value.

Best value

Craft, $497 a month

Hosting, SSL, daily backups, and SEO, AEO, GEO and performance work on your site every single month. Nothing is capped: unlimited new pages, unlimited sections, unlimited content updates, published in 24 hours.

The step down

Care, $197 a month

The same hosting, SSL, daily backups, performance reports and client portal, with the SEO, AEO, GEO and performance work run every quarter instead of every month. Two hours of update work a month ride on top, live in 24 hours.

The step up

Grow, $997 a month

Everything in Craft, plus one original SEO, AEO and GEO piece every week, a real-time lead dashboard, ongoing AEO maintenance, and ZIP and category exclusivity in your market.

The step from Care to Craft is $300 a month. Past Care's included hours the rate is $150, so $300 is two more hours. If you expect to need more than about three hours of work in a month, Craft is the cheaper plan.

See all four plans
What owners say

5.0 on Google, every review

5.08 reviews
Aaron Marmon
11 reviews
Highly recommend Jake from Local Craft Digital. He just did my website and I’m very happy with it. I have had 3 website builders in the past 5 years and also tried to do it myself with squarespace. Jake is hands down the best, he captured everything I wanted on my website and made it look professional and at a better p…
Jared Roosa
12 reviews
I’ve known Jake for a while now and he truly cares about helping people drive their business. This whole process has been effortless and Jake made the website pretty darn close to flawless on the first draft. I've been looking for things to have him fix and there is not much. Your business deserves this level of care!
Abigail Parker
Local Guide · 20 reviews
I’ve been updating my website as I shifted my business and reached a point it needed an overhaul. I was happy to get connected to Jake with LocalCraft Digital. It was a speedy turnaround to preview my new website, and he’s been friendly to work with every step of the way. I knew all the right marketing tactics, but it…
Michael Wooten
3 reviews
I cannot recommend Jake Sebok highly enough. Jake created a website for our studio that is clean, clear, professional, and somehow captures the heart of our business, and the most impressive part is that he did it all from essentially one conversation over coffee. You truly never know who you are going to meet. Jake…
The founder of LocalCraft Digital.
Jake Sebok · Founder

Built by a human
In Edwardsville

Over a decade inside agencies and digital teams, building for nine-figure brands and founder-owned ones alike. Same standard every time. CrossFit Level 2 coach. Father of three. Main Street regular.

Local business is the spine of this region. Every owner here built something with their own hands and their own sleep. The digital storefront should match. The human who picks up your phone is the human who builds your site.

Founded inEdwardsville, IL
Service areaMetro East
In the craft since2013
Build time48 hours from green light
GuaranteeBuilt to work, or I keep working
Contract lengthZero. Month to month.

Get a finished site. Free. On your phone

Answer a short or long intake. Then I build the site, on spec, and you book the time I walk you through it live before you owe a dollar. If you love it, it's yours. If you don't, you've lost nothing.