“Ben and his team are excellent! They are professional and extremely responsive when support is needed. My entire online presence has improved since working with McGinnis Made. I highly recommend them if you want to take your digital presence to the next level.”
MCG | Always Outperform. Never Outsourced.
At the corner of
Code & Creativity.
More than developers. More than designers. We understand people, how they connect, and what moves them — then we build websites, brands, and campaigns that outwork the competition.
What we do 
Where we work: 401 Market St., Suite 502, Steubenville, OH. The lit window is ours. Nerds with people skills. And style.
That is me. Not an account manager, not a ticket queue — the founder, on your account, from the first call through year five. We build the site, get it found, and put paid attention behind it, then keep all three running so you never have to think about any of it. When a project needs real software underneath, we build that too.
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Website Design & Development
A site that loads in under 2 seconds, works on every phone in the truck, and actually turns visitors into calls.
Premium Managed Hosting Included 02Local & Technical SEO
We get you ranking in your service area on Google — and now showing up when people ask ChatGPT and AI search for a recommendation.
Built for AI Search Visibility 03Digital Marketing & Paid Ads
Paid campaigns, social, photo and video content — built to feed the website and the phone, not just rack up impressions nobody can spend.
Photography + Videography Included 04Premium Hosting, Management & Support
We host on best-in-class infrastructure, then handle updates, backups, security, and speed in-house so nothing sits broken.
In-house 24/7 support included“Ben and his team have been very easy to work with! Professional, responsive, creative! They continue to improve online presence for our medical practice!”
“Easy to work with, good response time, assists in strategizing, very reasonable rates. Would recommend to anyone!”
The upgrade
Your old site is costing you the job.
Slow load times, broken layouts on mobile, a contact form nobody trusts — customers bounce before they ever call. Here’s what changes when MCG takes over.
Before
The site you’re embarrassed to send people to
- Slow to load, worse on mobile
- Outdated design that undersells the work
- Nobody at the wheel — updates take weeks
- Invisible in local Google & AI search results
After MCG
A site that works as hard as you do
- Loads in under 2 seconds, every device
- Built to convert visitors into calls and leads
- Unlimited updates, 12-hour average turnaround
- Optimized for Google and AI search visibility
Thirty minutes, with the founder.
Talk with Ben Not sure which side of this your site falls on?
Talk it through
Prefer to just talk it through?
Grab 30 minutes on our calendar and we’ll go through what your site and marketing actually need.
Schedule a Meeting Or call us directly — (740) 346-9737
Why MCG
Why choose MCG?
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We’re Not Playing Pretend
Started by an Ohio State grad in Columbus, McGinnis Creative Group is headquartered in Steubenville with a real office, a real team, and real accountability.
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You Get a Winner, Not a Freelancer
We’re past the “one guy in a coffee shop” phase. You get professional project management, dedicated specialists, and work that ships on schedule. Every site is designed, built and supported by our own team in the United States — nothing goes offshore.
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Unlimited Updates. Seriously.
Your business changes. Your website should too. We don’t nickel-and-dime you for updates. Need a new page, a new photo, a new offer? Send it over.
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We Obsess Over Details
Every line of code. Every keyword. Every pixel. We’re the team that finds the edge cases, tests the forms, and checks it on the phone in the truck.
By the numbers
150+ Active premium websites live & managed
5.0 Google rating from 18 verified reviews
12hr Average turnaround on change requests
<2s Average site load time
24/7 Real support, no days off — unlimited updates included
Where we work
Serving Greater Pittsburgh — and every market across the tri-state area.
We work with businesses that have real work to do — contractors, clinics, real estate teams, and local brands across Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. No matter where you are in the tri-state area, you get the same direct communication, fast turnaround, and work that holds up.
- Headquarters
Steubenville
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Pittsburgh
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Weirton
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Wheeling
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Columbus
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Akron
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Cincinnati
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Somewhere else?
No matter where you are in the tri-state area, you get the same direct communication, fast turnaround, and work that holds up.
Let’s Talk
Just launched
New sites, live now.
The latest we have built and launched for businesses across the Ohio Valley. Click through to the real thing.
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McBane Insurance & Financial Services
A fifth-generation, family-owned independent agency with three offices in eastern Ohio.
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Polaris Home Funding Corp.
Mortgage lending for the Ohio Valley, Licking County and Tuscarawas County.
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JD Homes
Kitchens, cabinets, rentals, storage and cash home buying from a Wintersville showroom.
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Go Go Pest Control
Woman-owned pest control, licensed in Ohio and West Virginia.
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Cedar One Commercial
Commercial brokerage, leasing and property management for the Ohio Valley and Pittsburgh.
Case Studies
Real clients. Real results.
Every project comes with the receipts — click into a case study to see the actual traffic and ranking gains behind it.
Creegan’s Windows Plus
Auction Ohio Real Estate
Precision Aesthetics
Cedar One Realty
Superior Urgent & Primary Care
CHANGE, Inc.
How we build
Most agencies won’t tell you how they decide.
We publish the reasoning — what we use, what we refuse, and the tool we used for years before the evidence changed our minds. If you want to know whether we know what we are doing, read it rather than take our word for it.
Start here
Build What Makes You Different. Buy Everything Else.
- The only question worth asking about a tool is whether it lets the job get done properly for this client — not whether it is popular, and not whether it is the one the agency already knows.
- Two common failures, same shape: the shop that uses one platform for everything because it is all they have, and the shop that writes everything from scratch and becomes the only people who understand it. Both choose for the vendor's convenience.
- Wix Wix Isn’t Why Your Website Is Broken. Here’s Why It’s Still the Wrong Choice.
- Squarespace Squarespace Locks the Door Behind You. Their Own Documentation Says So.
- Woo → Shopify WooCommerce Makes You Its System Administrator. Shopify Doesn’t.
- GoDaddy GoDaddy’s Website Builder Can’t Do Local SEO. I Mean That Literally.
- Elementor We Built on Elementor for Years. Here’s What Changed My Mind.
Google reviews
Verified 5-star reviews from real clients.
We'd rather let the people we've worked with do the talking.
Let’s get to work 
Let’s talk about your 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. You will be working with me, not an account manager.
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