Barksdale Strategic Consulting
Web · SEO · AI Search · Marketing

Built at the kitchen table. Built to rank.

We design and grow websites for real businesses — the full stack, from the ground up, done by a family who actually answers the phone.

The Barksdale family together outdoors
Family owned, est. in this house
SitesBuilt & Rebuilt
SEO& AI Search Audits
CustomWordPress Builds
Local& National Clients
OneFamily, Every Project
The Barksdale family on the front porch
No stock photos here. This is genuinely us.
Who We Are

A family-run shop that does the whole job.

Barksdale Strategic Consulting is a small, family-operated web and marketing studio. We handle the design, the build, the SEO, and the ongoing strategy — no hand-offs between five different agencies, no junior account manager relaying your request to someone else.

One team touches your site from the first wireframe to the monthly ranking report. That's how we keep builds consistent and keep clients for years, not campaigns.

What We Do

Everything a site needs to be found, and to work.

Design & Build

WordPress Development

Full custom builds, redesigns, and migrations — from Shopify moves to ground-up sites for new businesses.

Search

SEO & Technical Audits

Site-wide audits, schema markup, local SEO, and the technical fixes that actually move rankings.

Emerging

AI & GEO Optimization

Getting sites structured and cited correctly for AI search and answer engines, not just traditional results.

Content

Content Strategy

Location pages, blog calendars, and on-page copy built around how your customers actually search.

Care

Maintenance & Troubleshooting

Malware cleanup, plugin conflicts, checkout debugging, hosting migrations — the unglamorous work that keeps sites running.

Growth

Ongoing Marketing

Reporting, backlink outreach, and month-over-month strategy for clients who want a long-term partner.

Our Work

A few builds we're proud of.

01

Wunsch Law — Personal Injury Law, Chicago

Full custom website build with practice-area pages, plus a full malware remediation after we found a hidden backdoor left by a previous vendor.

Custom BuildLocal SEOSecurity
wunschlaw.com
Site build, security cleanup & SEO
02

Hill Construction — Custom Home Building

From-scratch site build designed to communicate craftsmanship and credibility clearly, with a portfolio structure built to grow over time.

Ground-Up BuildLocal SEO
hillconstruction.net
New site, built from zero
03

RatPac Controls — Lighting & Rigging Equipment

Full redesign with a reorganized product catalog and technical documentation, cleaned up for both search rankings and day-to-day usability.

RedesignProduct CatalogTechnical SEO
ratpaccontrols.com
Catalog redesign & cleanup
04

Conejo Restoration — Property Restoration

Site migration with a rebuilt lead-capture flow, cleaning up how service requests move from a visitor's first click to a booked job.

MigrationLead-Form RebuildLocal SEO
conejorestoration.com
Platform migration, lead-safe
05

Aurora Outdoors — Landscape Design & Build

Custom build with an estimate-request flow and a project gallery structured to showcase completed work at scale.

Custom BuildLead Capture
auroraoutdoors.com
Gallery-driven project site
06

Maui Scuba Mike & CD Aviation Services

Site migrations, booking and quote-request pages, and caching work for two very different service businesses, same attention to detail.

MigrationBooking & Quote FlowsCaching & Performance
mauiscubamike.com · cdaviationservices.com
Two builds, one team
Why It Matters

We build sites the way we run our house — together.

We're not a call center or a rotating cast of contractors. We're a family, working out of a real home, building real sites for real businesses. When you call, you get someone who already knows your project — because there's no one else it could be.

That's the whole pitch, really. One team, start to finish, treating your business the way we'd want ours treated.

The Barksdale family in the pines The family golden retriever resting at home
Even the dog's on the team.
Get In Touch

Tell us what you're building — we'll take it from there.

Design, SEO, AI search, ongoing strategy. One point of contact, start to finish.