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Ten Studies, Ten Kinds of Proof

New builds that ranked in weeks, a rebuild that cleared years of SEO damage, an accountant who fact-checked her own website, our own site held to the standard we sell, and clients measured in decades. Every figure is real, dated, and re-checkable.

Raise the Roofs London Limited · Steve Ball and John Ireland, directors

Raise the Roofs London: A Roofing Company Website in the Roofer's Own Words

Steve Ball has been roofing since 1988. He and John Ireland run Raise the Roofs London from West Wickham, and they wanted a site that wins calls from homeowners in the towns they cover. We built a 47-page roofing website from their own answers, jobs and photographs, with prices shown VAT included, all 76 reviews word for word and nine area pages written about local roofs. It went live on 26 October 2026, so there are no results yet. We say so.

  • 47 indexable pages, each written from Steve's own answers
  • 76 reviews word for word, none left out
  • 22 prices from one list, VAT included and shown first
  • 10/10 AI Discovery Files found and attributed
Read the full case study about Raise the Roofs London

Splat Decorating Ltd · Colin Fry, founder and director

Splat Decorating: A Painter and Decorator Website Built for Better Enquiries

Colin and Harry Fry are father-and-son painters and decorators in Beckenham, Bromley, Chislehurst and West Wickham. Colin asked for better enquiries, not more of them. We built a 37-page site from 958 of his own camera originals, with published starting prices, area pages written from real jobs, every review word for word and a Google profile put right. It went live on 19 October 2026, so the ranking verdict is still to come.

  • 854 real job photos, every one captioned
  • 37 indexable pages, each 86% or more its own words
  • 134 old URLs redirected in a single hop
  • A+ security headers, 8 of 8 present
Read the full case study about Splat Decorating

MC Transports · Motorcycle collection and delivery, Brewood, Staffordshire

MC Transports: A Motorcycle Transport Website Priced From Two Postcodes

Sean Hamilton already ran Lockerfella and Brewood Removals with us when he started a third business: motorcycle collection and delivery from Brewood. It had no photos, no reviews and no history, and one rule from Sean: real photos and confirmed claims only. This is how we built a 28-page site that prices any job from two postcodes, the bugs we caught in our own work, and why the ranking results are still to come.

  • 28 indexable pages at launch
  • £99 local price, quoted from two postcodes
  • A+ security header grade, no unsafe-inline
  • 100 PageSpeed, mobile and desktop
Read the full case study about MC Transports

Tickdoc · Accounting practice, Eastleigh, Hampshire

Tickdoc: The Accountant Who Fact-Checked Her Own Website

Tickdoc is an accounting practice in Eastleigh, Hampshire. We replaced its old WordPress site with a fast, hand-built one where every figure is checked against GOV.UK, and its director, Sibo Armstrong, reviewed every article and page herself. Ten of the twelve articles came back with corrections. It scores 100 on all four PageSpeed categories on mobile, and it launched in October 2026, so the ranking verdict is still months away. We say so.

  • 100 mobile PageSpeed, all four categories
  • 10 of 12 articles the client corrected before launch
  • 48 of 48 colour pairs passing WCAG, measured
  • 19 automated quality gates in one command
Read the full case study about Tickdoc

Cordley Solutions · UK consumer-brands distribution, Herefordshire

Cordley Solutions: A Brochure Site With One Job, Passing Supplier Due Diligence

Cordley Solutions is a brand-new UK consumer-brands distribution business whose website exists to convince brand suppliers it is worth trading with. We contrast-tested the client's own palette at kickoff, dropped his accent colour on measured evidence, and went from empty folder to live in three days. No invented scale, no stock-photo team: honest copy as the trust strategy.

  • 2.59:1 the contrast ratio that killed the accent colour
  • 5 reference sites measured before designing
  • 3 days from empty folder to first live deploy
  • 13.92:1 body-text contrast the final palette ships
Read the full case study about Cordley Solutions

Lincolnshire Chauffeur Services · Executive chauffeur travel, Bicker, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire Chauffeur Services: A 23-Page Flagship Built on Honest Data

Lincolnshire Chauffeur Services has been driving passengers to UK airports from Bicker since 2006. Its new site is a 23-page flagship: a split-flap departures board, nine hand-written town pages, mobile PageSpeed 99 with every vital green, and journey times published honestly as estimates until the client verifies each one.

  • 23 pages designed, written and shipped
  • 2006 chauffeur firm trading since
  • 99 mobile PageSpeed, every vital green
  • 9 hand-written town pages
Read the full case study about Lincolnshire Chauffeur Services

Brewood Removals · Removals company, Brewood & the West Midlands

Great Reviews, Zero Rankings: How We Rebuilt a Removals Firm's Website

Brewood Removals had a 5.0 rating from 74 Google reviews and still ranked nowhere. The old WordPress site had swelled to 247 URLs, around 160 of them near-identical doorway pages. This is how we diagnosed it, why we rebuilt to 25 deep pages instead of patching, and why 225 old URLs now return 410 Gone. It launched on 12 June 2026, so the ranking verdict is still months away, and we say so.

  • 5.0 rating from 74 Google reviews
  • 0 page-one rankings it earned
  • 247 to 25 pages after the rebuild
  • 225 old URLs set to 410 Gone
Read the full case study about Brewood Removals

Lockerfella · Independent locksmith, Brewood & West Midlands

Lockerfella: #1 on Google, ChatGPT and Gemini in 21 Days, With Zero Backlinks

We launched a brand-new site for a one-man locksmith on 8 April 2026. Nineteen days later ChatGPT and Gemini ranked it first for "Brewood locksmith". Two days after that, Google followed. Zero backlinks, zero domain history. This is the full build, the decisions behind it, and what happened in the May 2026 core update.

  • #1 on Google, ChatGPT & Gemini
  • 21 days from launch to triple #1
  • 100/100 mobile PageSpeed, all 4 metrics
  • 0 backlinks needed
Read the full case study about Lockerfella Locksmiths

Press Forge · Our own site: pressforge.co.uk

How We Got Our Own Agency Site to PageSpeed 100

Agencies tell you speed matters, then run their own sites at 70. In April 2026 we took pressforge.co.uk through a full performance pass: 2.8 MB cut from the image library, 400 KiB of unused reCAPTCHA JavaScript deferred, per-page CSS bundles. Every figure is from this site's own build history, and you can re-test it yourself right now.

  • 2.8 MB cut from the image library
  • 400 KiB of unused JS deferred per form page
  • ~58 KB global CSS bundle, minified
  • 100 the score the techniques target
Read the full case study about Press Forge: PageSpeed 100

Richard Antrobus · The Employment Law Solicitors

Nearly 20 Years, One Law Firm: What Long-Term WordPress Care Actually Looks Like

Richard Antrobus has been with us since the mid-2000s. Multiple full rebuilds, thousands of pages of UK employment-law content, and a site that now draws very heavy organic search traffic. This is what a client relationship looks like when it outlasts the iPhone, including the upgrade we talked him out of.

  • ~20 yrs continuous client relationship
  • Multiple full site rebuilds across that span
  • Thousands of pages of employment-law content
  • £10/mo the upgrade we chose over £30/mo
Read the full case study about The Employment Law Solicitors

How We Write These (and What We Won't Do)

Every case study here follows the same rules as the rest of this site, set out on our editorial standards page. Clients are named only with consent. Dates come from launch records and Search Console, not memory. Where a client's business data is private, we say so and keep it out, even when the number would flatter us.

We also publish what didn't work. The Lockerfella study includes the head-term ranking it has not won yet, because a case study that only reports wins is an advert. New studies are added when the next project produces results worth writing about, and not before.

Mark McNeece, Founder & Lead Developer at Press Forge

Every case study on this page was built and written by Mark McNeece, founder of Press Forge and 365i.

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