Developer-led · Newport Beach, California
Web design, development & SEO in Newport Beach, California.
We are Div Digital — senior engineers serving Newport Beach from neighboring Laguna. We build the kind of fast, credible, search-ready websites that high-value clients expect — and we make sure Google and the AI engines put you in front of them.
01 — Why local matters
A Newport Beach partner who writes the actual code.
Newport is a town of professionals selling trust. Your website and your search presence are the first thing a prospective client judges.
In Newport Beach, the buying decision is high-stakes and research-heavy. People choosing a wealth manager, an attorney, a surgeon, or a $4M listing agent do their homework — and that homework increasingly starts by asking an AI “who is the best…” before they ever click a link.
The competition here is sophisticated and well-funded. Fashion Island, Newport Center, the Balboa Peninsula, and the harbor are dense with firms spending real money on marketing. Looking polished is the baseline; being found and being cited is the edge.
Most agencies serving Newport are marketing shops that outsource the build. We are the opposite — engineers who led web teams at CNN, Sony Music, and Columbia before founding Div. For professional-services firms whose reputation is the product, that technical credibility shows up in the work.
02 — Who we help
Built for Newport Beach businesses.
The categories we know in this market — and what we do for each.
- Wealth management & finance
- Compliance-aware sites that establish authority. We build the E-E-A-T signals — team credentials, structured data, citations — that AI engines require before naming a financial advisor.
- Law firms
- Practice-area pages that rank locally and get cited in AI answers to legal questions. Fast, secure, and structured so both Google and ChatGPT trust them.
- Medical & cosmetic practices
- A fiercely competitive Newport category. We engineer the review signals, doctor bios, and procedure pages that win both the Google map pack and the AI recommendation.
- Luxury & coastal real estate
- High-end listings, MLS/IDX integration, and the local search visibility that puts an agent at the top when a buyer asks an AI for the best in Newport.
- Yachting, marine & hospitality
- Harbor-front businesses and the visitor economy around them. Discoverable, fast, and built to be recommended by AI trip-planners.
03 — The full suite
One local partner for every digital service.
Most businesses stitch together a web person, an SEO vendor, a designer, and an email tool. We are all of it, under one roof — see the full services list.
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Web design & development
WordPress, Shopify, Drupal, and custom React / Node builds. Fast, accessible, semantic, and engineered to last — not a page-builder that bogs down in a year.
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SEO, AIO & GEO
Traditional search optimization plus the new layer: making your site machine-readable and citable by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews.
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Creative & brand
Brand strategy, UX/UI design, and information architecture — the design and the engineering done by the same team, so nothing gets lost in handoff.
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Analytics & security
Proper analytics implementation, performance optimization, and security audits — so you can see what is working and trust that the site is safe.
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Marketing automation
Email campaigns, lead scoring, and customer-journey work across Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot, and the rest. The pipeline that turns visitors into conversations.
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AI & data
Automated workflows, generative-AI integration, and data analysis that give a small team the leverage of a much larger one.
04 — Where we work
Newport Beach, in person.
We are based in south Orange County and come to you. Neighborhoods and areas we cover across Newport Beach:
- Fashion Island
- Newport Center
- Balboa Peninsula
- Balboa Island
- Corona del Mar
- Lido Isle
- Newport Coast
- Newport Heights
- Mariners’ Mile
- Big Canyon
- Eastbluff
- Back Bay
Not listed, or just outside Newport Beach? We work across all of south Orange County — and with enterprise clients nationwide. Tell us where you are in the form below.
05 — Why Div
Engineers who do marketing — not marketers who outsource the build.
Three senior engineers with sixty-plus combined years. We write the code that makes your site fast, secure, and machine-readable to both Google and the AI engines.
Tim Hobert led web engineering at CNN.com, SonyMusic.com, and Columbia.edu before founding Div Digital in September 2014. Shawn Gregg was Head of Web Production at Sony Music Entertainment. Ramon Pujol Cots is an Acquia Certified Developer and career enterprise consultant. Read the full team page, or start with a free AI visibility audit.
06 — Questions
Frequently asked — Newport Beach.
We are a professional-services firm. Why a developer-led agency over a marketing agency?
AI optimization and technical SEO are engineering disciplines first. Most agencies serving Newport are marketing teams that subcontract the build, so the technical foundation — speed, structured data, machine-readability — is an afterthought. We write that code ourselves. For a firm whose product is credibility, that difference is visible in the result.
Are you actually local to Newport Beach?
Yes. We are based in neighboring Laguna Beach and meet Newport clients in person — Fashion Island, Newport Center, anywhere in town. Close enough to be there this week, not a remote vendor.
Can you handle compliance-sensitive industries like finance and healthcare?
Yes. We build accessibility, security, and compliance considerations into the foundation, and we are careful with claims and review handling in regulated categories. We will flag anything that needs your compliance team before it ships.
Do you provide more than SEO?
Yes — the full suite. Web design, WordPress and custom development, SEO and AI optimization, analytics, security audits, and marketing automation (Salesforce, Marketo, HubSpot). One senior partner for all of it.
07 — Start a conversation
In Newport Beach? We’ll come to you.
Tim replies directly within the hour during business hours. Or email tim@div.digital.