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First Byte

Migrated an award-winning marketing agency off WordPress onto a static Cloudflare Pages site — 238 pages, a 21-city × 7-service local-SEO matrix, a playable Blackjack lead-capture game, and a $250/mo Launch landing page — in 53 commits over 14 days.

First Byte homepage — digital marketing agency in The Woodlands, TX, desktop
First Byte homepage on mobile

CLIENT SNAPSHOT

  • Brand
  • Website
  • SEO
  • AI
Business
First Byte (firstbyte.agency)
Industry
Digital marketing agency
Location
The Woodlands, Texas
Owner
Sean
Service area
21 cities across Greater Houston
Target customer
Small & mid-sized businesses across retail, tech, professional services, banking, e-commerce, hospitality & restaurants

THE MISSION

What this project set out to do.

  1. Migrate it.Off WordPress and its legacy plugin stack onto static Cloudflare Pages.
  2. Blanket local search.A 21-city × 7-service matrix — 140 landing pages, written original per city, not spun.
  3. Get quoted by AI.An llms.txt, conversational schema, and a knowsAbout entity graph built for AI Overviews.
  4. Convert differently.A rigged-in-favor Blackjack game that plays for real and ends in a lead form.
  5. Sell the offer.A $250/mo Launch landing page with a real monthly/annual toggle and comparison table.

THE POWERS WE DEPLOYED

The same lineup — pointed at a machine shop.

The same roster we run for service pros — here it is pointed at a marketing agency. Each power is a real service on this site.

Aaron as Brand Man + AI ManBrand Man + AI ManHero Web Design A 238-page custom design system, a SaaS-grade /launch pricing page (monthly/annual toggle, five-column comparison table, structured sign-up form), a sticky mobile call bar, and a fully playable Blackjack lead-capture game — 754 lines, no jQuery, no dependencies.Aaron as CF ManCF ManSuper Hosting Static Cloudflare Pages on the global edge, Pages Functions for lead capture, KV for anonymized social proof, free auto-SSL, and one-click rollback to any deploy. No PHP, no database, no plugins — nothing to hack.Aaron as Prompt ManPrompt ManSearch Engine Optimization 140 service × city pages, 156 FAQPage schema blocks, and a deep Organization + Person + knowsAbout entity graph — plus an llms.txt and conversational H2s written the way ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews quote a source.

WHAT GOT BUILT

The numbers.

238pages built, from a handful of WordPress templates
140service × city landing pages (21 cities × 7 services)
52original blog posts
156FAQPage schema blocks deployed
14 days53 commits, start to ship
$250/moproductized Launch offer, its own landing page
0plugins, databases, or servers to hack
“I know marketing and technology, so I’m probably harder to impress than most clients. Aaron impressed me. He thinks past the website, connects the dots between traffic, messaging and conversion, and builds around the business result—not the deliverable.”
SeanFirst Byte Agency

BEFORE & AFTER

What changed.

BeforeAfter
HostingWordPress on a traditional hostStatic, edge-cached Cloudflare Pages
Page count4 services + a few pages238 pages, incl. 140 geo pages
Local SEO7-city areaServed in schema21 cities + 140 landing pages
Structured dataOne malformed AIO SEO block@graph: Organization + ProfessionalService + FAQ across 156+ pages
AI searchNonellms.txt + conversational schema + knowsAbout graph
Lead captureBroken Gravity FormBlackjack lead engine + /launch form + edge Functions
CMSWordPress + pluginsStatic HTML + a Python build pipeline
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