#01 / Studio

Your website
should be your
best salesperson.

Most business websites look fine and do very little. We design high-performance websites, drive Google rankings and build campaigns that bring qualified clients and sales — from Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), for businesses across South Africa, the United Kingdom, the EU, the US and Australasia. We stop when we’re proud. Not before.

Google Certified Partner · Recertified 10× · 115 five-star reviews · Established 2008
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04 / Work

The latest from the studio. Named with permission.

Websites that do real work.

Why our clients outrank

You can build a website with one prompt. That doesn’t mean you should.

Everyone has seen the results by now. Sites that look the same, read the same and rank nowhere. There is a real fatigue setting in — and your customer feels it a few seconds before they could put a name to it.

What we do takes longer, on purpose. Eighteen years of technical expertise, search engineering and hard-won design judgement, pointed at one thing: your audience, and what it takes to win them.

That combination is why our clients outrank their peers in most of the markets we build for. Not because a page looks handsome — because it is engineered to be found, built to be read, and put together to turn a visitor into an enquiry.

Yours gets built for your business and nobody else’s. We spend the time. That is the whole difference, and it is not a difference a prompt can close.

01

Engineered to be found

Search structure, schema, speed, crawlability, the technical layer most people never see. It is what decides whether you appear at all — long before anyone judges how the page looks.

02

Designed for your audience

Not a template with your logo dropped in. Your colours, your type, your structure, shaped around the people you actually need to convince. We never reuse a look from one client on the next.

03

The same people, year after year

Most of our team has been here more than ten years, over a thousand websites deep since 2008. They know your business by the second project and are still doing the work on the fifth.

We stop working when we are proud.

Most websites are reworked about five times before they go live. A sixth round costs money, so that is usually where it stops. We don’t count ours. We keep going until the work is done — until nobody on the team can look at it and say, not yet. You never see the versions in between. You just get the one that came out the other side.

Anyone can have a website by tonight. Outranking your market takes longer.

A footnote: we consult Nova, our own AI system, along the way. It has not changed how we work — it lets us do this faster and better than we ever could before. How we use it →

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05 / Reviews

115 five-star Google reviews. Their words, not ours — every quote below is verbatim.

Trusted by clients locally, nationally and internationally.

5,0

Average across 115 Google reviews

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“From concept creating to the final photoshoot and website, they guide you every step of the way. From the day the website went live, I had people phoning the very next day.
Annemie ErasmusPhotoshoot + website · Google review
Been a client since our business started in 2010 and still a client
DJ Greg O Gee AdamsClient since 2010
They are genuinely the best in their field. Their work is clean, modern, and tailored to exactly what you need.
Nidele ElsWebsite + Shopify store
We were still in the testing phase of the website when I received my first queries for assessments. Produced business for my practice from day 1.
Danelle BoschNew practice website
Hands down the best company to work with to get your company's presence noticed on Google. Riaan is what he says he is and does what he says he will do, without any hidden agendas.
Wayne CecilGoogle visibility
This is the second time that I am launching a website with Riaan and his team...and as usual their service is world class!
Riette KotzeSecond website launch
IT Design is the absolute best when it comes to website design and SEO. Their service is of international standard and their staff really go the extra mile.
Tanya van ZylWebsite design + SEO
Absolutely outstanding. IT Design is extremely knowledgeable in their work and I would 100% suggest them for anyone that is looking for expert digital marketers & the best website devs & designers in the world, and that's not an overstatement.
Ramon CoetzeeDigital marketing

115 reviews · 5,0 · Google Verified — quotes verbatim, authors named

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Riaan Miles, founder of IT Design

Riaan Miles · Founder

06 / Focus

We stick to one lane — and we dominate it.

For two decades we’ve gone deep on one thing — Google. The full ecosystem, end to end.

Not generalists. Specialists who’ve spent eighteen years mastering the single platform that drives more business than any other — and we keep recertifying. 10× and counting.

Today the studio engineers Google visibility for clients across South Africa — with major retainers in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban — plus the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, the US and Australasia. All from one Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth) team.

The Google stack — mastered, end to end

SEOGoogle AdsAnalytics (GA4)Search ConsoleMerchant CenterTag ManagerMy BusinessYouTube
1999
Entered IT sector
2008
Studio established
115
Five-star Google reviews
1 000+
Clients served
07 / FAQ

Common questions, honest answers.

Real questions from real client conversations — answered direct.

  • Every project is unique — there is no fixed turnaround we quote off a list. Most clients don’t know exactly what they need at the first meeting, and we don’t pretend to either. The first meeting is for listening: who you serve, what the site has to do commercially, where the gaps and the proof are. From there, Riaan guides the conversation toward a brief we can honestly cost and timeline. Once the brief is locked, the schedule is locked in writing — and you always know where the project stands.

  • No. We work with clients across South Africa — Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Pretoria and beyond — and internationally in the USA, Australia, the Netherlands, England and New Zealand. Most work is done remotely with clear communication every step of the way.

  • We’re a Google Certified Partner — a status the team maintains by writing annual exams and staying current with Google’s ranking criteria through its podcasts and documentation. We reverse-engineer every website from the commercial result. Before a single pixel is designed, we ask what the business needs — leads, sales, or subscriptions — and shape the design, user experience and page speed around the perfect client. Templates are generic. Our sites are built around your business, your customers and your growth goals.

  • Google’s own position is that no one can promise a specific timeline — and we won’t either. Their documentation states plainly that "crawling can take anywhere from a few days to a few weeks" and that "Google doesn’t guarantee that it will crawl, index, or serve your page." Once a page is indexed, ranking depends on content quality, technical foundation, trust signals (E-E-A-T) and competition in your niche — all of which compound over time. In practice we typically see indexing and early Search Console signals settle in the first weeks. Long-tail impressions build over the months that follow. Primary commercial keywords stabilise over longer periods as authority earns its place. Every market is different — a low-competition local query behaves nothing like a high-competition national one. If you need traffic from day one, before SEO has had time to compound, that is exactly what Google Ads (CPC) is built for. We run both side by side for most clients — paid for immediate visibility from launch, organic to compound underneath.

  • Yes, but the rules of the game have changed. AI engines look for structured facts and citations, not just keywords. We build sites that are machine-readable so AI can confidently quote your business. Three layers we use to make a site AI-ready: (1) atomic answers — clear 50-word definitions at the top of each topic, easy for AI to lift; (2) JSON-LD schema markup — tagging your prices, services, locations and How-To steps so the AI knows exactly what it’s reading; (3) topical authority and FAQ blocks — giving AI the exact Q&A pairs it needs for conversational queries.

  • Yes. Our Website Care Plans cover security updates, backups, performance monitoring and content changes — keeping your site fast, secure and current.

08 / Contact

Ready to grow your business online?

Tell us about your project — no obligation, no lock-ins. We’ll review your details and come back with a tailored next step.

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