Population
8,049
People in Newport searching for the businesses around them.
Newport, AR · Jackson County
Websites and local search for Newport businesses.
Websites and local search for Newport businesses, run by a firm thirty-five miles up Highway 67 in Walnut Ridge. An ASU–Newport town where the river brings a second set of customers every spring.
The market we know
A White River seat where Highway 67 brings the buyers.
Newport is the seat of Jackson County, sitting on the west bank of the White River where Highway 67 and Highway 14 cross. About 8,000 people, with Arkansas State University–Newport drawing students and the river bringing through-traffic, anglers, and fishing tournaments through downtown. The agricultural economy that built the town — rice, soybeans, cotton — still matters; so does the smaller industrial base along the rail corridor and the highway.
What that means for a small business in Newport: your customers are a mix of regulars who know exactly which Newport business they want and visitors who are looking for whatever’s good and nearby. That second group searches before they buy. “Restaurants in Newport AR,” “auto repair Newport,” “hotel near White River” — the queries that decide whether they pull off the highway or keep going to Batesville or Jonesboro.
Newport’s problem is rarely the business itself. It’s that the listing was built for people who already know the town — so the visitor searching from the bridge finds no hours, no photo of the dining room, and no particular reason to choose you over the next result down.
Local Presence handles it alongside the website itself. From $500 a month you get the build, the hosting, the listing work, the citation cleanup, and a report that tells the regulars apart from the highway traffic.
The market
Newport by the numbers.
County
Jackson County
We work the whole county, not just the city limits.
From our door
35 mi
Walnut Ridge to Newport. Close enough to know the market.
Roger Pemberton
Founder, Kotik Solutions
Walnut Ridge, Arkansas
Who runs it
Hi — I'm Roger. I'm thirty-five miles up the road in Walnut Ridge.
Kotik Solutions is in Walnut Ridge, thirty-five miles up Highway 67 from you. Two decades in IT, graphic design, and digital marketing, now spent building websites and running the local search work behind them. Newport carries two customer bases that barely overlap — the Jackson County regulars who already know your name, and the tournament and campus traffic that finds you on a phone or not at all. If you're a Newport or Jackson County owner, book a call. If we're not the right fit I'll point you somewhere we can help.
More about KotikWhy Kotik
A small firm, working directly with the people next door.
You work with the person doing the work. No account-manager layer, no handoffs.
Up Highway 67 from Newport
Thirty-five miles up Highway 67, in Walnut Ridge. We know the Newport results, the tournament weekends that move them, and what a Jackson County buyer types before they drive anywhere.
One monthly number
The site, the hosting, the Google listing, and the search work are all in the $500 a month. Quoted on a call before you commit.
No long contracts
Month to month. We would rather keep clients because the work is working than because a contract says so.
Real reports
A monthly update in plain language: what was done, what it produced, what is next — tied to calls and searches, not vanity numbers.
What we do for Newport
Local Presence — from $500 per month.
Everything a local business needs to get found in its own town — the website, the Google listing, and the search work — in one monthly number.
A custom local-business website, built, hosted, and kept current — included in the monthly, nothing up front
Google Business Profile setup and ongoing management
Local citations and listing consistency across the directories that matter
On-page local SEO for your town and county
Structured so AI assistants can read and recommend you
Monthly reporting on calls, searches, and where you rank
Covers a standard local-business site. Larger custom builds — deep product catalogs, booking or ordering systems, multi-location sites — are scoped and quoted separately.
Would you rather own it outright? Local Build + AI builds the same site and hands it over — from $2,500, one-time project, nothing monthly. Compare both.
Nearby towns we serve
Working across Northeast Arkansas.
Newport is one of the towns we run websites and local search work for. Here are the closest others — same corner of the state, same kind of work.
Want to be the Newport business that shows up first?
One call to look at your current site, your Google listing, and where you stand in local search. We will tell you plainly whether we can help.