Digital marketing in Pittsburgh, done by the person who builds it.
Websites, SEO, Google Ads and the automation behind them — for businesses in Pittsburgh and the towns around it. No account manager, no handover to a junior, no monthly report nobody reads.
You get Joseph Deep — not a call center. The assistant answers at 2am; I answer the phone.
Prefer email?Joey@deepdevelopmentanddesign.com
A marketing company that is actually here
Deep Development and Design works out of Oakdale, just west of the city. We build websites and run search and ad campaigns for small and mid-sized businesses across Allegheny, Washington, Butler and Beaver counties — the kind of company where the owner is still the one answering the phone at five o'clock. The person who scopes your project is the person who builds it, and the person who picks up when you call six months later.
Everything a Pittsburgh business needs to get found and get hired
Six services, each of which can be bought on its own. Most clients start with one.
Website design & development
Custom sites built to convert, not a theme off a shelf — and set up for local search from the first line of code.
SEO
The foundation that gets you into the Pittsburgh map pack and the results underneath it.
Google Ads
Paid search that stops spending on the words that never turn into a phone call, and puts the budget behind the ones that do.
AI search optimization
Getting named when somebody asks ChatGPT for a business like yours, not only when they ask Google.
Social media
Planned a month ahead, approved in one sitting, and actually answered during the week.
Business automation
The retyping and the chasing that eats your week, handled quietly in the background.
Two things decide whether Pittsburgh finds you
Local search is won on the map, not the homepage
For most businesses here, the three results next to the map are worth more than everything below them. That listing is ranked on your Google Business Profile, your reviews, and whether your details match everywhere they appear online — a different job from ranking the website itself, and usually the one worth doing first.
- Google Business Profile set up properly and kept current
- Reviews asked for the right way, never bought
- Name, address and phone consistent everywhere they appear
A website that reads like your business, not a template
Most small-business sites around here look fine and do nothing. Yours gets built around the one action you actually want — a call, a quote, a booking — with the pages a Pittsburgh customer is looking for, loading in under a second on the phone they are holding.
- Designed around the action, not around the homepage
- Fast enough to keep the visitor you paid to get
- You own the code, the domain and every account
One person, start to finish
You are not being passed to an account team. You deal with the person doing the work, and you know what it costs before it starts.
A fixed price before you commit — you see the number before any work begins.
A reply the same business day — from the person who would do the job, not a sales rep.
You own everything — the code, the domain, the ad account and every login.
An honest answer — including when the thing you asked for is not worth buying.
Towns and neighborhoods we work in
Most of our work sits inside forty minutes of the city. Outside that is fine too — local search is the only part where being nearby genuinely changes the answer.
- Downtown Pittsburgh
- Strip District
- Lawrenceville
- South Side
- Squirrel Hill
- Shadyside
- Mount Lebanon
- Bethel Park
- Carnegie
- Bridgeville
- Oakdale
- Robinson Township
- Moon Township
- Coraopolis
- Sewickley
- Cranberry Township
- Wexford
- McCandless
- Monroeville
- Murrysville
- Canonsburg
- Washington
- Butler
- Beaver
Just west of the city, and easy to get hold of
We are in Oakdale, PA. If you would rather sit down in person before starting something this size, that is a short drive to arrange — and if you would rather do the whole thing by email, that works just as well.
Talk to usFour steps, no mystery
Reach Out
Tell us what you need in a quick message or call. No long forms, no pressure.
Get a Plan
We map out scope, timeline, and a clear price so you know exactly what to expect.
We Build
You watch it come together with real previews and easy rounds of feedback.
Launch
We go live, hand over the keys, and stay on call for whatever comes next.
What businesses here usually ask
We are in Oakdale, PA, just west of the city — a real address and a 724 number, not a virtual office. Plenty of our work is for businesses nowhere near Pennsylvania, but this is where we live, and meeting you is a short drive rather than a flight.
It depends entirely on what you buy. A website is a one-off project and you get a fixed price before anything starts. SEO, ads and social are monthly, and they are only worth beginning if you can keep them going for six months or more — a short burst wastes the money. We will tell you which of those your budget actually fits before you commit to any of it.
Google Ads can bring calls the week they go live. SEO normally takes three to six months before meaningful movement, longer in a competitive trade. A new website is typically four to eight weeks from kickoff to launch. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is either lying or planning something that will get you penalized.
The three results next to the map are ranked mostly on your Google Business Profile, your reviews, and whether your name, address and phone number match everywhere they appear online. Distance from the searcher counts too, which is why a shop in Bethel Park and a shop downtown are running two different races. For most local businesses it is the first thing worth fixing.
No. Every service here stands on its own and most clients start with one — usually the website, or the ad account that is quietly wasting money. We would rather fix the thing costing you the most and be asked back than sell you a bundle you did not need.
Then ask us for a second opinion rather than a pitch. We will look at the site, the rankings or the ad account and tell you honestly what we see — including when the answer is that your current setup is fine and your money is better spent elsewhere.
Ready to be found in Pittsburgh?
Tell us what you are trying to fix — the website, the rankings, the ad spend, or all three. You will get a straight answer and a fixed price before anything starts.