Have been working with Ben for over 4 years, extremely professional
Washington, PA
Web Design & Local SEO for Washington County
Washington sits almost exactly between us and the city — 25 miles east of our Steubenville office, 23 miles south of downtown Pittsburgh. Close enough to meet in person, and far enough from the city that your search results are still genuinely local.
Who you actually get 
You are hiring me.
That is me. Washington County is 25 miles from my desk and I make the drive. You get the founder on your account from the first call, and because we have no clients here yet, everything I build in this county is yours alone.
Read this before you hire in Pittsburgh
You are 23 miles from Pittsburgh. You should not be paying Pittsburgh rates.
Washington County businesses get quoted like downtown accounts and serviced like small ones. We are 25 miles the other direction — inside the same metro, outside the same overhead, and with no clients here we would have to protect you from.
A downtown agency
City pricing, suburban attention
- A rate card built around a downtown lease you will never visit
- Likely working with businesses in your category across the metro already
- Washington County treated as an outlying account
- Sold by a principal, run by an account coordinator
MCG
Same metro, no conflicts, no overhead
- Washington County is open territory for us — nothing we build here competes with anything else we build
- Twenty-five miles is a drive, not a flight. We show up.
- The founder on the account, not a coordinator with a checklist
- Unlimited updates, 12-hour average turnaround, hosting and support in-house
The receipts
The kind of work we would be doing for you in Washington.
Real sites, live right now, for businesses that pay us to keep them fast. Hover to stop one and look at it.
One of the Seven Counties That Make Up the Pittsburgh Metro
Washington County is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area proper, not a neighboring region that borrows the name. That matters for search: a business here competes for Pittsburgh-adjacent terms while still owning a distinct local market of its own. MCG builds websites and local SEO strategy around both — the county you actually serve, and the metro you sit inside.
Local search
Search Along the I-70 and I-79 Corridor
Washington sits where I-70 and I-79 cross, which is why so much business here is corridor business rather than strictly neighborhood business. A contractor in Houston serves McMurray, a practice in Canonsburg draws from Peters Township and the South Hills both. We build local SEO around the area a business genuinely covers instead of pinning everything to one municipality and hoping the radius works itself out.
It also means the competitive picture is different from the city's. Washington County searches are less saturated than Pittsburgh proper, so a well-built page here competes against other county businesses rather than against agencies buying their way into a downtown result. That is a materially easier fight, and it converts better.
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Google Business Profile strategy
Categories, services, service areas and posts configured for how Washington County customers actually search.
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Neighborhood-level content
Pages and sections built around Canonsburg, McMurray, Peters Township and the communities you serve, not a single county-wide keyword.
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Citation and listing cleanup
Consistent name, address and phone across the directories that still feed local rankings.
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Technical SEO foundation
Speed, crawlability, structured data and mobile performance — the parts that decide whether good content ever gets seen.
Design
A Website Built to Turn a Search Into a Call
A site that looks good and generates nothing is a brochure. Every page we build is designed around the path from search result to phone call — clear structure, fast loading on the phone someone is actually holding, and an obvious next step on every screen.
We will be straight about where we stand in this market: our office is in Steubenville and Washington County is expansion territory for us, not a client base we can point at yet. What we can point at is Pennsylvania work — we manage both branches of Voto Manufacturers Sales, in Steubenville and Clarion, PA, and we spent several years as the web and SEO partner for Trinity Anglican Seminary in Ambridge, over in Beaver County, until the seminary grew enough to bring it in-house.
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Conversion-focused design
Layouts built around the decision a visitor is trying to make, with the next step never more than a scroll away.
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Mobile-first performance
Sub-two-second loads on a phone, because that is where most local searches finish.
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Premium managed hosting
Hosting, backups, security and updates handled in-house rather than pointed at a support queue.
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Unlimited updates and support
Ongoing changes are part of the engagement, not billed per request.
Why MCG
Why Washington County businesses work with us
01
Close Enough to Show Up
Twenty-five miles is a drive, not a flight. When a project needs a room and a whiteboard, we are in one with you.
02
Built for the Metro, Priced for the County
You get an agency that works Pittsburgh-metro search without the overhead of a downtown address baked into the invoice.
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One Team, Clear Reporting
Design, SEO, hosting and support stay connected, with straightforward reporting tied to the work that matters.
Questions
Washington County questions, answered
Do you have an office in Washington, PA?
No. Our office is in Steubenville, Ohio, about 25 miles west, and Washington County is one of the seven counties in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area we work. We meet in person when a project calls for it and work remotely when it does not.
Have you worked with Pennsylvania businesses before?
Yes. We manage both branches of Voto Manufacturers Sales Co., in Steubenville and in Clarion, Pennsylvania, and we were the web and SEO partner for Trinity Anglican Seminary in Ambridge, Beaver County, for several years. Neither is in Washington County — we would rather tell you that plainly than imply a local roster we do not have yet.
Which communities in Washington County do you cover?
The whole county. Most of the work concentrates around Washington itself, Canonsburg, McMurray, Peters Township, Houston, Cecil and out toward Burgettstown, but we build around wherever your customers actually are.
Is ranking in Washington County different from ranking in Pittsburgh?
Considerably. Pittsburgh proper is a saturated search market with regional and national agencies competing for the same terms. Washington County searches are more specific, less contested, and closer to a buying decision — which usually means faster results for less spend.
Can you redesign our existing site rather than starting over?
Usually, yes. Most sites we take over are outdated rather than broken, and we rebuild while preserving what already works — existing rankings, content, and the URLs Google has indexed.
Serving Washington County and the southern Pittsburgh metro
- Downtown Washington
- Canonsburg
- McMurray
- Peters Township
- Houston
- Cecil Township
- Burgettstown
- Washington County
Google reviews
Verified 5-star reviews from real clients.
Washington, PA 
Let's talk about your Washington project.
Tell us where you are and where you want to go. We’ll give you a straight answer about what it takes to get there — and whether we’re the right team for it.
Ben McGinnis — Founder. Every account is personally backed by me.
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A free audit of your current site, rankings and local listings — no pitch deck, just a straight read on where you stand.
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