Websites · Hosting · Digital Marketing · AI Search
More visibility. More leads. More growth.
Full-service web design, managed hosting, and digital marketing from a lean Minnesota team — now part of the J2 Creative Works family. We make sure customers find you, trust you, and keep coming back.
What we do
Three practices, woven tightly together.
Most agencies treat hosting, design, and SEO as separate departments. We don’t — the infrastructure shapes the design, the design shapes the search story, and we keep all three under one roof.
Managed WordPress hosting
A platform built so you never get a 3 a.m. call: edge caching, daily backups, tested updates, and uptime monitoring, quietly working.
- Edge caching via Cloudflare, 300+ POPs
- Automatic daily backups, 30-day retention
- SSL, malware scanning, and performance budgets
Web design & development
Custom, block-based WordPress, hand-built. No page builders, no template clutter, no tech debt to inherit.
- Brand & product discovery, then wireframes and mockups
- Accessible by default — WCAG 2.2 AA
- Lighthouse 95+, documentation & training included
Search & AI optimization
Be findable wherever people are looking, including the half-dozen new search engines that aren’t Google.
- Technical SEO: schema, sitemaps, canonicals
- AEO & GEO for ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews
- Local & map optimization, plain-language reporting
How we work
A process designed to not surprise you.
Discover
Goals, audience, and the honest state of what you have today.
Design
Wireframes, then full mockups you sign off on before a line of code.
Build
Hand-built blocks, accessible markup, and a staging link from day one.
Launch
Migration, redirects, analytics, and training for your team.
Optimize
Hosting, updates, search, and plain-language reporting every month.
Minnesota-based · Senior-led · Focused
Direct access to the people doing the work.
Minnetonka Digital was founded by Joshua Smith after 20+ years across SEO, paid advertising, social, web development, and ecommerce. It’s a focused team, not a massive agency, building and maintaining WordPress sites for small businesses — with direct access to the people doing the work. No sales rep, no tier-one queue, no handoffs.
Why Minnetonka
A small studio with big-agency services.
We’re not an agency with 200 employees and a six-month onboarding. We’re senior-led, Minnesota-based, and obsessed with the boring details that make digital marketing actually work.
- 01Minnesota-based, accessible.
Real conversations, not ticket queues — you’ll talk to the same people from the first call through year five.
- 02WordPress specialists.
It’s the only platform we build on — years of opinions, patterns, and quiet expertise.
- 03Speed and security, first.
Every site we ship is optimized from day one: edge caching, image pipelines, and hardened hosting.
- 04AI-ready optimization.
SEO, AEO, and GEO so your site shows up on Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
- 05No long-term contracts.
Stay because you want to — we earn the relationship every month.
Start a conversation
Your next site, built to perform.
Tell us what you’re working on — a redesign, a launch, or a site that needs to be rescued. We’ll send a thoughtful reply within one business day.