Built by Lionel. Never Handed Off.
CY Online Marketing And SEO is one person — Lionel Yates, a developer and SEO with more than ten years of experience, serving businesses within about 19 miles of Devon, PA.
Lionel Yates builds websites, writes WordPress plugins, and does SEO for small businesses around Devon, Pennsylvania. He works from 321 S Valley Forge Rd, a short drive from Lancaster Avenue and the horse show grounds. He's the person who answers the phone, the person who writes the code, and the person who shows up when something breaks. There's no sales team and no account manager. There's Lionel.
He's been doing this work for more than ten years. Long enough to have built sites by hand while everyone else reached for page builders, and long enough to have cleaned up the mess those builders leave behind. In that time he's watched Google change its rules a dozen times and watched agencies sell the same packages anyway. The lesson stuck: fundamentals hold up. Fast pages, clean code, honest content. That's what he builds, because that's what keeps working.
Lionel only takes clients within about 19 miles of Devon. That's not a limitation he tolerates; it's a choice he made. It means he can sit across a table from every client, walk through their shop or office, and understand what they actually sell before he writes a word of copy or code. It means a problem on Tuesday can be a meeting on Wednesday. Work travels better across a table than through a ticket queue.
Hiring a big agency means hiring a process: a salesperson, a project manager, a junior developer you'll never meet. Hiring Lionel means hiring Lionel. He gives you a fixed written quote before work starts, explains decisions in plain English, and hands over everything when the job is done — the site, the domain, the content, all of it yours. If that sounds simple, that's the point. Simple is what most small businesses actually need.
Four things you can hold us to
Do the Work Yourself
The person you hire is the person who builds your site, writes your plugin, and runs your SEO. Nothing gets passed to a subcontractor or a junior. What gets promised in the meeting is what gets built at the desk.
Say It Straight
No jargon, no padded reports, no dressed-up excuses. If something's working, you'll hear it. If it isn't, you'll hear that too, along with what changes next. Clients make good decisions when they're given plain information.
Put It in Writing
Every job starts with a fixed written quote: what's included, what it costs, when it's done. If the scope changes, the paper changes first. Surprises belong at birthday parties, not on invoices.
You Own Everything
Your domain, your hosting, your code, your content. Lionel sets things up in your name from day one and documents how it all works. If you ever leave, you leave with everything and owe nothing.
Anywhere within 19 miles of Devon
That's the deal: if we take your project, you get the founder across the table, not a video call with a stranger. See all 17 towns.
Want to meet before you decide anything?
Coffee is free and so is the first consultation. Message Lionel, tell him where you are, and pick a spot.