Developer-led · San Clemente, California
Web design, development & SEO in San Clemente, California.
We are Div Digital — a developer-led agency based up the coast in Laguna Beach. We build fast, search-ready websites for San Clemente businesses and make sure Google and the AI engines send customers your way.
01 — Why local matters
A San Clemente partner who writes the actual code.
San Clemente is the Spanish Village by the Sea — a real downtown, a world-famous surf break, and a business community that runs on local loyalty.
San Clemente has something most of south OC lost: an actual main street. Avenida Del Mar’s shops and restaurants, the Pier and T-Street crowds, North Beach’s revival, and the surf culture anchored by Trestles at the south end give the town a genuine local economy — and one that visitors and residents alike navigate by search, increasingly through AI assistants.
It is also a maker’s town. Surf, outdoor, and lifestyle brands grew up here, and the Rancho San Clemente business park and Talega’s neighborhoods add B2B firms, trades, and practices to the mix. Whether the customer is a tourist choosing lunch or a wholesale buyer comparing brands, the strongest online answer wins.
We are engineers — former CNN, Sony Music, and Columbia web leads — twenty minutes up the coast. We write the code that makes a Del Mar storefront, a surf brand, or a Talega practice the answer that comes back.
02 — Who we help
Built for San Clemente businesses.
The categories we know in this market — and what we do for each.
- Surf, outdoor & lifestyle brands
- San Clemente’s heritage industry. Shopify and custom e-commerce engineered for speed, structured product data, and being cited when an AI is asked for the best gear.
- Restaurants & Del Mar retail
- The storefronts of Avenida Del Mar, the Pier Bowl, and North Beach. Discoverable menus, structured data, and review signals that win both locals and visitors.
- Home services & construction
- The trades keeping a beach town’s housing stock standing — from Spanish bungalows to Talega. We engineer the local search presence that wins the call.
- Medical, dental & wellness
- Practices serving San Clemente’s neighborhoods. Credibility signals built the way Google and the AI engines actually read them.
- Coastal real estate & rentals
- Agents and rental operators from Shorecliffs to Cotton’s Point. Fast sites, IDX/MLS integration, and the local visibility that wins the appointment.
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
San Clemente, in person.
We are based in south Orange County and come to you. Neighborhoods and areas we cover across San Clemente:
- Avenida Del Mar & downtown
- San Clemente Pier & T-Street
- North Beach
- Talega
- Rancho San Clemente
- Forster Ranch
- Marblehead
- Riviera District
- Shorecliffs
- Trestles & south end
Not listed, or just outside San Clemente? 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 — San Clemente.
Do you come down to San Clemente in person?
Yes — we are based in Laguna Beach, twenty minutes up PCH. We meet at your shop on Del Mar, your office in Rancho San Clemente, or anywhere in town.
We are a surf/lifestyle brand selling online. Do you do e-commerce?
Yes — Shopify and custom storefronts are core work for us. Speed, structured product data, and clean information architecture decide both conversion and whether AI assistants cite your products when someone asks for the best. We engineer all of it.
My customers are locals. Does AI search matter to me?
Locals use it too — and so do the visitors deciding where to eat and shop after a day at the beach. The same engineering that wins Google’s map pack — speed, structured data, reviews — is what gets you named in AI answers. One foundation, both surfaces.
Do you only do SEO, or the whole website?
The whole thing. Design, WordPress, Shopify and custom development, SEO and AI optimization, analytics, security, and marketing automation. One local partner for the full suite.
07 — Start a conversation
In San Clemente? We’ll come to you.
Tim replies directly within the hour during business hours. Or email tim@div.digital.
Retainers start at $600/month — five senior-engineer hours toward whatever your business needs: SEO, ads, site work, accessibility, AI visibility.