Hand-built WordPress sites that load in under 1.5 seconds, pass Core Web Vitals, and are structured for search from the first wireframe — not retrofitted six months later.
Thomas McKee Website Design & SEO Solutions is based in Springfield at 1300 W State St, Springfield, MO 65806 — this is our home market, not a service radius we reach into.
Thomas McKee has been building websites since 1996 — more than 600 client projects across southwest Missouri — and has been voted Best SEO in Springfield six consecutive years by Rising Star Reviews. Every project is handled personally. There are no junior account managers, no offshore production team, and no handoff after the sale.
Hand-built WordPress sites that load in under 1.5 seconds, pass Core Web Vitals, and are structured for search from the first wireframe — not retrofitted six months later. Most sites go live in 4–8 weeks.
Seven services plus a free audit, all run by one person under one strategy. Start with any of them — most Springfield clients begin with a website or an audit and add from there.
Conversion-focused, mobile-responsive WordPress sites built by hand.
From $2,497 flat-rate, with a 50/25/25 payment planLocal SEO, on-page, technical and Google Business Profile work built to win the 3-Pack.
Campaigns from $797/month, month-to-monthCampaigns built on dedicated landing pages with full call and conversion tracking.
Management from $497/month plus ad spend, with no markup on spendWooCommerce stores with conversion-tuned checkout, payments, shipping and eCommerce SEO.
Stores from $3,997, typically 8–12 weeksManaged WordPress hosting on LiteSpeed with Redis caching, free SSL and daily backups.
From $9.99/month, with free migration on annual plansWeekly updates, daily backups, uptime monitoring, malware scanning and content edits.
Care plans from $277/month, month-to-monthStrategy, content, scheduling and reporting across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X.
Plans from $497/monthA graded review of your site, Google Business Profile and rankings, with the highest-leverage first move.
Free, with no obligation and no sales pressureFull service detail lives on the main service pages: Website Design · SEO Services · Google Ads Management · eCommerce Website Design · WordPress Hosting · Website Maintenance & Support · Social Media Management · Free Website Audit.
Real client sites you can open and check. Every result below is from published, verifiable work.
Service area pages built for Springfield, Nixa and Ozark with real location-relevance signals, ad and landing page alignment, and conversion improvements across the site. Result: 166 additional form fills and a 140% lift in search impressions.
Visit the live site →HVAC landing pages built for combined paid and organic intent, conversion-focused copy, and full call and form tracking. Result: 122 additional calls per month at a $74.61 cost per lead and 2× return on ad spend.
Visit the live site →Custom WordPress build paired with on-page SEO from launch — category metadata, internal linking and indexation hygiene baked into the architecture rather than retrofitted. Result: 130% growth in organic sessions and a 21% revenue lift.
Visit the live site →Live, unedited Google reviews pulled straight from the Google Business Profile — the same profile behind six consecutive Best SEO awards.
Springfield has about ~170,000 people in Greene County. Here is what actually changes about Website Design when the client is based here rather than somewhere else.
Springfield is the third-largest city in Missouri and the commercial anchor for the entire southwest quadrant of the state. The employer base is unusually diversified for a metro this size: two competing hospital systems in CoxHealth and Mercy, three higher-ed institutions in Missouri State, Drury and OTC, and a cluster of national headquarters including Bass Pro Shops, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Jack Henry & Associates and Prime Inc. Underneath that sits a deep bench of independent trades, professional services, medical and dental practices, and retail.
Springfield is the most competitive local search market in the 417 by a wide margin. Nearly every service category here has established local agencies bidding on it, plus national lead-gen networks buying the top of the paid results. Ranking here is won on technical execution and review depth, not on being the only option — because you never are.
Springfield demand is year-round rather than seasonal, but two rhythms matter: the academic calendar moves a real share of the population in August and May, and home-services search spikes hard with the first freeze and the first 95-degree week.
Springfield sits inside the map pack radius of our Springfield location, which means local pack visibility is realistically winnable here with the right Google Business Profile work alongside the site.
Because the market is crowded, the differentiator here is almost never design — it is page speed, correct schema, and a Google Business Profile that is actually maintained. Sites that load in under two seconds and answer the searcher's question above the fold are what separate page one from page three in Springfield.
Work is delivered across all of Springfield and the surrounding Greene County area, including these districts and corridors.
Main routes: I-44, US-65, US-60 / James River Freeway, MO-13 Kansas Expressway.
Businesses and organisations worth knowing if you're building or growing a company in Springfield. No referral fees are involved in any of these — they're listed because they're genuinely useful.
The first stop for any new or growing Springfield business. Chamber membership is also one of the most reliable local citations and link sources you can get — it helps your search visibility as well as your networking.
202 S John Q Hammons Pkwy, Springfield, MO 65806
(417) 862-5567
Free, genuinely useful business counselling for Missouri owners — business planning, financing and market research. Hosted through Missouri State University and available across the region.
Springfield is our home market — the office is at 1300 W State St, Springfield, MO 65806.
Because the market is crowded, the differentiator here is almost never design — it is page speed, correct schema, and a Google Business Profile that is actually maintained. Sites that load in under two seconds and answer the searcher's question above the fold are what separate page one from page three in Springfield.
Most builds run 4–8 weeks from kickoff to launch. The variable is almost always content — how quickly photos, service details and copy approvals come back. Sites where the content is ready move fastest.
No. Existing copy is reviewed, restructured for search and readability, and expanded where a page is too thin to rank. Writing from scratch is available if you'd rather not.
From $2,497 flat-rate, with a 50/25/25 payment plan. Pricing is the same whether you're in Springfield or Springfield — there's no location surcharge. Full pricing is published at thomasmckee.com/pricing-plans, and the free strategy call gives you a firm number for your specific situation.
Same service, neighbouring towns. If your business sits between two of these, either page works — or call and we'll sort it out in two minutes.
See every town we cover on the service areas index.
Book a free strategy call or request the free audit. You get an honest read on where you stand and what to do first — whether or not that involves hiring anyone.
