Web design & SEO for Ketchikan businesses.
We’re an online-first engineering team. We don’t have a storefront in Ketchikan — we build for Ketchikan businesses remotely and fast: the website your customers find, the AI that answers the phone, and the SEO that puts you in front of local searches and AI answers.
Ketchikan is Alaska's 'first city' and a major cruise port at the southern tip of the Inside Passage, with an economy of tourism, fishing, and seafood.
The Ketchikan business landscape
Ketchikan is home to about 8,033 residents in Ketchikan Gateway Borough. Here’s what the local business picture looks like.
CBP reports at county level; figures are for Ketchikan Gateway Borough, not the city alone. There are 603 business establishments here — about 44.1 per 1,000 residents. In a market that size, the businesses that show up first on Google and in AI search win the calls.
Biggest local sectors
- Retail Trade96
- Transportation and Warehousing72
- Construction68
- Accommodation and Food Services66
- Health Care and Social Assistance51
Source: U.S. Census County Business Patterns (county-level). Population: US Census Bureau Vintage 2024 Population Estimates (SUB-EST2024), 2024.
Locally, Ketchikan’s economy leans on cruise tourism, commercial fishing and seafood processing, maritime services — anchored around Creek Street and the Ketchikan cruise-ship docks. The businesses that most need to be found here are tourism-dependent and local-service businesses competing for a seasonal cruise market.
What we build for Ketchikan businesses
With hundreds of thousands of cruise visitors researching excursions online, businesses that don't appear in search lose the season's revenue.