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Websites · est. 1999

Before the ads. Before social media.
You need a website that works.

We've been building tattoo artist and studio websites — and syndicating portfolios — since the mid-90s. Some clients have been with us over 20 years. We'll be here for the next 20.

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27
Years Building
40+
Studio Sites Live
20+
Years · Longest Client
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Still Shipping
The killer feature

Post to Instagram.
Your website updates itself.

This is the differentiator. Every Instagram post you make flows automatically into your website — captioned, tagged, categorized, SEO'd, and indexed on tattoonow.com. No CMS to log into. No backlog. No "I'll update the site next week" guilt. Post the way you already do; everything downstream takes care of itself.

  • AI captions — rewritten for SEO without losing your voice
  • Auto-tagging — style, subject, body placement, all categorized
  • Schema markup — Google sees structured data, not just pixels
  • Three places at once — your site, your GBP, tattoonow.com
01 · The Foundation

A website isn't a marketing tool — it's what every ad stands on.

Before you spend a dollar on paid traffic, your portfolio has to live somewhere you control. Inquiries have to land in a real inbox. Your work has to be discoverable when someone in your city types "tattoo artist" into Google. Skip this step and everything downstream leaks.

"These guys built my site before most of the internet existed and they've kept it running ever since. I've outlasted three booking apps, two Instagram redesigns, and a decade of agency promises. My site is still here. And so are they."
— Cecil Porter, Cecil Porter Studios

Social Media

Rented attention. Spikes and decays.

  • Algorithm decides who sees you — you don't.
  • A post dies in 48 hours, then you start over.
  • The platform owns the reach — you rent it.
  • When the platform changes, your business shifts with it.

Search Engines

Earned authority. Compounds forever.

  • You decide what shows up. Nobody throttles you.
  • A page keeps earning for years. Work compounds.
  • You own the domain, the traffic, the inquiries.
  • When algorithms shift, your foundation holds.
02 · The Network · Since 1999

Syndicated portfolios. Since day one.

Since 1999, every TattooNOW artist's portfolio has lived in two places at once — on their own website, and on tattoonow.com. It's the DNA of the platform. You're not buying a website. You're joining a network that was running before Google existed.

Post once — to Instagram, the way you already do. Your work goes to your site, your socials, your Google Business Profile, and a domain Google has been indexing for 27 years. No competitor offers this. Most of them are younger than our longest-tenured clients.

  1. Step 1
    You post
    Instagram, the way you already do. Zero workflow change.
  2. Step 2
    We process
    AI rewrites captions, applies tags, resolves categories, generates SEO metadata.
  3. Step 3
    Your website
    Portfolio, blog, SEO metadata — live and indexed.
  4. Step 4
    Social channels
    Cross-posted where it makes sense, on your rules.
  5. Step 5
    Google Business
    Your GBP stays active — signals Google rewards.
  6. Step 6
    tattoonow.com
    Syndicated to the network we've run since 1999.
03 · The Audit

Want us to apply that lens to your current site?

Before we talk about building anything — let's look at what you already have. Free audit. We apply the same standards we've been refining since 1999 to your existing site and show you exactly where it's losing you clients and what it would take to fix.

43 checkpoints. Six pillars. Real numbers. Delivered within 48 hours. You're free to take the report and run with it — no strings.

Six pillars

  • Search visibility & indexing
  • Portfolio presentation & taxonomy
  • Inquiry flow & conversion gaps
  • Site speed, mobile, Core Web Vitals
  • Content freshness & automation
  • Hosting, security, reliability

What you get

  • Overall score (0–100)
  • Critical issues flagged with impact estimates
  • Opportunities sorted by lift vs effort
  • Delivered within 48 hours
  • Tailored to your actual site, not generic copy
  • Yours to keep, no strings

Why it's free

If your foundation is solid, we'll tell you. If it's not, you'll know exactly what to fix — whether or not you ever work with us. Most audits surface 8+ opportunities and 2–3 critical issues.

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04 · What We Build

A professional foundation — done right the first time.

Every TattooNOW website ships with the essentials baked in. Nothing to bolt on later. Nothing to regret.

01 · Portfolio

A portfolio that honors the work

High-resolution galleries. Style-based taxonomy. Client-facing presentation that reflects the caliber of what you actually do — not a grid of thumbnails.

02 · Inquiries

Qualified inquiry forms

Custom intake forms that ask the right questions upfront, route straight to your CRM, and cut the back-and-forth before it starts.

03 · SEO

Search-friendly from the ground up

Schema markup, proper heading hierarchy, fast load times, mobile-first, sitemap generation, canonical URLs. The foundation search engines reward.

04 · Hosting

Up since websites existed

We don't outsource your uptime to someone we've never met. Our platform has been live for over 25 years. We'll be live for 25 more.

05 · A Year In

What actually changes once this is running.

Features don't matter. Outcomes do. Here's what working tattooers and shop owners tell us they notice 12 months after launching a TattooNOW site.

The phone stops ringing mid-tattoo

Before"Do you guys do piercings too? What time are you open tomorrow? How much for a small tattoo?" — phone ringing during your appointment, again.

AfterThe questions people used to call about — hours, pricing ballparks, services, aftercare, walk-ins — are answered on your site. Google routes them there first. Your client in the chair gets your full attention; the noise stays outside the studio.

You can leave town and still see the shop running

BeforeYou're at a convention in Berlin. Your studio is seven time zones away. Is anything actually happening back home?

AfterInquiries, bookings, traffic, new posts going live — all visible from your phone at 3am Berlin time. Travel to the convention you've been putting off. Take the family on vacation. Your studio stays visible to the web while you're invisible to it.

Overnight, your posts queue themselves up

BeforeWeekend morning. You meant to update the site a month ago. You haven't opened the CMS in six months. Guilt.

AfterInstagram posts get pulled in, tagged, categorized, and staged overnight. In the morning you spend 60 seconds reviewing and hit publish. Or let them go live automatically. The backlog never happens. The guilt never happens.

Your inbox fills with actual inquiries

BeforeYou check your inquiries. Same three forwarded DMs from Instagram as last week.

AfterClients who searched for your style and your city — not the ones who happened to scroll past. They arrive with their idea, their reference, their location, their budget. The form asked the right questions before they hit send.

06 · The Work

Peek into the live sites.

Every site below is something we built and still run. No mockups. No "previous work that's no longer live." Working sites, working traffic, working inquiries — the same platform we'll build yours on.

Artist site
Cesar Perez
Keene, NH
Open ↗

Solo artist portfolio + booking. Indexed on tattoonow.com from day one.

Studio site
Darkside Tattoo
East Haven, CT
Open ↗

Multi-artist shop. Roster, booking, blog, all under one brand.

Convention site
Icons & Prodigies
icons-prodigies.tattoodirectories.com
Open ↗

Event landing — tickets, schedule, attending artists.

More sites we built & run

Artist sites

Studio sites

Convention sites

07 · Track Record

Here long enough. Scaled far enough.

Two questions matter when you hand someone your website: will they still be around in five years, and can they handle what you throw at them? We've answered both, repeatedly, since before most of today's tattooers started the craft.

1999
Founded
2005
First 20-year clients
2026
Today
2046
Still here
200
Convention artist pages in a week. Pipeline is the point — 200 is just what happens when you point it at a big convention.
Daily
Digest videos delivered on autopilot. Your studio's posts from the last 24 hours, compiled into Reels-ready collages.
40+
Studios on one platform. One improvement reaches every tenant. One patch protects every client.
"We've been with TattooNOW since before most of my clients were born. They've rebuilt the site for me three times as the web changed, and I've never had to think about it. That's the whole deal — they keep the foundation sound so I can focus on the work."
— Guy Aitchison · Tattoo Artist · Co-founder, Reinventing the Tattoo · Client since ~2001
08 · Pricing

Built for the long run. Priced to be fair.

A one-time build fee to launch. A simple monthly platform fee to keep your site hosted, syndicated, and fed with automated content from your Instagram. No long contracts. No surprise charges.

Artist · Base Site
$1,500
$49/mo · or $499/yr (save $89)
  • Website + syndicated portfolio — your own site, plus live on tattoonow.com from day one
  • SEO baked in — schema, sitemap, mobile-first, fast load
  • Inquiry forms — custom intake, routes to your CRM
  • Content automation — Instagram posts flow to your site
  • Network authority since 1999 — inherit the Google standing
Studio · Multi-Artist
$3,000
$49/mo · or $499/yr (save $89)
  • Everything in the Artist plan, plus:
  • Multi-artist support — unlimited artist pages under your studio brand
  • Daily digest video automation — posts-to-Reels without a human editor
  • Full studio branding — logo system, colors, typography dialed in
  • Priority support — direct line, no ticket queue

What can I afford?

Pick a tier, dial in what you can put down today and what you can pay monthly. We'll show you the payoff timeline.

Solo artist site, syndicated to the network.

Build fee$1,500
Down payment−$300
Financed$1,200
Payoff timeline8 months
Platform fee at launch$49/mo · or $499/yr

Payment plan covers the one-time build fee only. Platform fee starts when your site goes live. No interest. No penalty for early payoff.

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09 · Your Journey

You just bought the foundation. Here's where it can go.

Your website doesn't need to be more than a website on day one. But the same team that builds your site is here for everything that comes after — when you're ready, and only then. Most of our 20-year clients started with just a website.

  1. You are here
    Website + syndicated portfolio
    Your own site, every post syndicated to TattooNOW from day one.
  2. Later
    Email list
    Capture + nurture. Turn visitors into ongoing conversations.
  3. Later
    CRM + routing
    Automated inquiry handling. Book consultations in your sleep.
  4. Later
    Funnels + ads
    Now you have a foundation worth sending paid traffic to.
  5. Later
    Multi-location ops
    Full business platform. Same team. Same phone number.
10 · FAQ

Answers to what every tattooer asks.

Why can't I just use Instagram?

Instagram is a feed; your website is a business. A post disappears in 48 hours and reaches whoever the algorithm decides — a website is your permanent storefront, searchable on Google, owned by you, and working while you sleep. The artists calling us for help now are the ones who told us a few years ago they didn't need a site.

How are you different from Squarespace or Wix?

Squarespace and Wix are built for restaurants and photographers. They don't understand tattoo style taxonomies, they don't sync to Instagram correctly, and they can't syndicate your portfolio to a domain Google has indexed since 1999. You can launch on our platform today and inherit 27 years of network authority — that's not buyable any other way.

What am I actually paying $49/mo for after the build?

Three things working in the background, every day: hosting on a platform that's been continuously live since 1999, syndication so every new post gets indexed on tattoonow.com alongside your own domain, and content automation so your Instagram posts flow into your site, GBP, and the network tagged and SEO-optimized. Cancel any time, no penalty. The annual plan ($499/yr) saves you about three months.

Do I own my domain and content?

Yes. 100%. You own the domain, every photo, every bio, every inquiry. We host and maintain — we don't hold your content hostage. If we vanished tomorrow your domain and content would still be yours. This isn't a walled garden.

What happens if I ever leave TattooNOW?

You take your domain and content. We'll do a clean transfer to whatever host you want, no drama. You'd lose the syndication to tattoonow.com and the content automation — both are ours. Your site keeps running. Our longest sites have been live continuously for 20+ years; we'd rather build trust than lock you in.

How long until I actually show up on Google?

Two answers. Your syndicated portfolio on tattoonow.com starts ranking immediately because tattoonow.com already ranks. Your own domain builds authority over 6–18 months of consistent posting, which is why the content automation matters. Most clients see measurable organic traffic within 3–6 months.

How long does it take to build, and what do you need from me?

2–4 weeks for an artist site, 4–6 weeks for a studio. We need your Instagram handle, a short bio (we can help), your shop location + contact info, and a preference for style or service categorization. That's it — we pull photos from what you've already posted. Onboarding is a 30-minute call, not homework.

What happens when an artist joins or leaves my studio?

New artists get their own page inside your studio site within 24–48 hours of handover — portfolio syncs from their Instagram, bio goes live, inquiry form routes to you. Artists who leave get their page archived (not deleted) so past work stays discoverable on tattoonow.com — protects your studio's SEO from the 404 penalty.

A website that will outlast every trend.

From $1,500 to build + $49/mo to run. 27 years of track record behind you. Payment plans if the timing isn't right today.

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