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Website design
Pages written and coded by hand, quick on a phone, with your number a thumb's reach away. The finished site is yours to keep.
How a build comes togetherUnion County seatIncorporated 1843
Web design & SEO in Monroe, NC
Hand-coded websites, local search work and Google listing coaching for the shops, trades and offices around the courthouse square and out along US 74. One person does the work, and you own every page of it.
- Fixed quotes, in writing
- No templates
- The site is yours
Union County CourthouseBuilt 1886 ยท the square
The portico
Three kinds of help, one set of hands
Most Monroe owners come in needing one of these and leave having sorted out all three. Each has its own page if you'd like the details.
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Local SEO
Work on the pages, listings and signals that decide who appears when a neighbor searches for what you do. Priced after a free review.
What local search work coversIII
Google Business Profile
A step-by-step playbook for your listing that we work through together. You hold the keys; we never ask for manager access.
Inside the listing playbookWhy the county seat
A town with a lot of front doors
Monroe was laid out on purpose. In 1843 the new county's first commissioners chose a spot near the middle of Union County for its seat, and the town took the name of James Monroe, the fifth president. It grew into a trading center for Piedmont farms, and once the railroad arrived in 1874 it sat on the line between Charlotte and Wilmington.
Trade is still the point. The historic district downtown, roughly bounded by Jefferson, Church, Windsor and Stewart streets, keeps brick buildings such as the Secrest Building and the Monroe Hardware Company building, both from 1928. US 74 runs east and west through town, US 601 runs north and south, and the Monroe Expressway gives through traffic a way around the city entirely.
That last part matters for a business. When fewer people discover you by driving past, more of them meet you on a phone first: in the map results, on your Google Business Profile, or on a page that answers the exact thing they searched. A well-built website and steady local SEO work are how you stay in that first glance.
The 2020 census counted 34,562 people in Monroe, and nearly a third of them, 31.7%, identified as Hispanic or Latino. If a good share of your customers would rather read in Spanish, a set of Spanish-language pages built from translated copy can be part of the plan. Ask about it when you request a quote.
Cornerstones
Laid down one stone at a time
A few dates from the town's own record, all from sources listed in our research notes. Your business is the next stone.
- 1842Union County is carved from parts of Anson and Mecklenburg counties.
- 1843Monroe is incorporated as the county seat and named for President James Monroe.
- 1847Work starts on the public jail, now Monroe City Hall and possibly the oldest building in town.
- 1874The Carolina Central Railway reaches town, tying Monroe to Charlotte and Wilmington.
- 1886The Late Victorian Union County Courthouse goes up, crowned with a large cupola.
- 1906The Seaboard Air Line puts up a pressed-brick passenger depot.
- 1913A Classical Revival post office is built with a portico of Corinthian columns.
- 1922Two three-bay wings are added to the courthouse.
- 1928The Secrest Building and the Monroe Hardware Company building rise downtown.
- 1988The downtown historic district joins the National Register of Historic Places.
- NextYour business, found online. Start with a quote
Order of business
How a project proceeds
Four steps, the same for a five-page site as for a fifteen-page one. How quotes are figured has the money side.
The first hearing
You call or send the form. Roger looks at your current site, your Google listing and the businesses that show up ahead of you, then talks it through with you.
A quote in writing
You get a fixed price, the page list and a timeline on paper before any work starts. Half the build fee gets it moving.
Drafts on a private link
The pages come together on a preview address only you can see. You mark what should change and it gets changed.
Opening day
The other half is due when the finished site is handed over for your review. Once you approve, it goes live and gets connected to Google's tools.
Recent work
Three projects, three real hometowns
None of them are in Union County yet. Each card lists where the client actually does business. Read more about each project.
Mount Gilead, NC
Tillery Labradoodles
A family breeding program whose waitlist used to be hard to find. The rebuilt site leads with words from puppy families, puts an application beside every litter and now runs to sixteen pages where there were only a handful.
Nationwide
DefenseCompliance.ai
Plain-English guides to CMMC, the cybersecurity standard for defense suppliers, plus free self-assessments so a small contractor can spot weak points before hiring help.
Lake Norman, NC
Trey Hamrick, Realtor
Month-to-month SEO for a lake-area Realtor, with pages built around the waterfront communities home buyers already search for by name.
On the record
What clients have said
Printed word for word from Google reviews. More context on the testimonials page.
Entry I
Roger was very helpful and knowledgeable about website design.
Entry II
Roger is a first class businessman. He consistently delivers value to me and my business. His knowledge is deep and wide which is quite rare in today's world. He is obsessed with delivering value to his clients. I would recommend him to anyone I know.
Entry III
Very detail oriented. Walked me through every step of the process. We have improved tremendously since we began. Money well spent. We are seeing the return immediately
Before you call
Quick answers
There are more on the questions page, or read about Roger and how the shop runs.
Do you have to be in Monroe to work with me?
No. The office is in Mooresville, about 51 miles up the road, so nearly all of it gets done over the phone, by email and on a shared screen. Plenty of good websites get built without anyone sitting in the same room.
Will I own the website?
Yes. The domain, the words, the photos and the code files all belong to you. If you ever want to move it somewhere else, it goes with you.
How long does a new site take?
A small site can be live in about a week once the content is settled. Bigger builds take two to three weeks. Your written quote spells out the schedule.
Can you promise the top spot on Google?
No one honestly can. What we can do is fix what's holding the site back, build pages that answer real searches and help you run a clean, complete Google listing.
Open for business
Bring your website to the square.
Tell Roger what the business does and where the site stands today. He'll look it over and reply with plain advice and a written quote. No charge for the look.