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Founder & CEO

Justin Yingling

Twenty years of building websites, front end and back end. Ten of those years running the Phoenix office of a Valley agency. SiteRyze is what that work looks like without the layers in between.

Born in New Mexico · Raised in Phoenix · Living in Peoria

Justin Yingling, founder and CEO of SiteRyze

Justin started SiteRyze in 2024 after fourteen years inside other people’s agencies, most of it fixing the same problem: a business with a real reputation and a website that gave none of it away.

He works on both halves of that. The build itself — WordPress, Shopify, hosting, speed, forms, tracking — and the marketing that runs on top of it, from search to paid ads. Every audit SiteRyze sends out is written by him.

Background

Twenty years, three chapters.

2010

Van Tuyl Group

Started as a Digital Marketing Specialist at one of the largest automotive groups in the country, then moved up to Senior Digital Marketing Specialist and Developer. Dealership marketing is a hard school: enormous inventory feeds, thin margins, and paid media that has to pay for itself the same week.

2014

Fose + McKay

Joined as a Web Developer, was promoted to Technical Director, and led the Phoenix office for ten years. Front end, back end, and the client conversations — which is where he learned that most website projects fail on the brief, not the build.

2024

SiteRyze

Started SiteRyze to work directly with owners instead of through account layers. Same standard of build, shorter line between the person paying for the work and the person doing it. How projects run here.

Selected clients

Who the work was for.

A decade of builds out of the Phoenix office — symphonies, state retirement systems, national foundations, hospital groups and a vacuum shop on 35th Avenue. Different budgets, same problem underneath: a lot of institutional knowledge and a website that gave none of it away. Nicole Young designed the sites, the graphics and the ad creative across this list; Justin built and implemented them.

  • The Phoenix SymphonyWebsite build, content, local marketing
  • PSPRSPublic Safety Personnel Retirement System — custom website build, content
  • Silent WitnessWebsite build, content
  • US Soccer FoundationCustom website build, content
  • Pharmaceutical Care Management AssociationCustom website build, content, internal site
  • Valleywise HealthThen MIHS — custom website build, content, email marketing
  • US Chamber of CommerceCustom website build, content
  • 35th Avenue Sew and VacCustom website build, content, local SEO, paid ads
  • Support Sky HarborCustom website build, content
  • Jim Waring and other local candidatesCustom website build, content
  • Diane and Bruce Halle FoundationCustom website build, content, photography
  • Cox PACCustom website build, content, HR tools

Plus ten years of smaller builds, rebuilds and rescues that never got a logo on a slide.

The other hats

Not only the websites.

Ten years in one building means you end up owning whatever nobody else owns. A fair amount of what Justin did at Fose + McKay never had a client name on it.

01

Servers and hosting

Migrated the agency’s servers and every web property it hosted onto VPS and dynamic shared environments that could actually scale — instead of a rack of sites all queueing behind whichever one had a busy morning.

02

Internal systems and tooling

Rebuilt the foundation of tools the agency ran on day to day. That is what let it grow vertically — take on more work without adding a person for every new account.

03

IT, email and everything else

Email migrations, accounts and access, and the ordinary IT that keeps an office working. Business photography too, when a shoot needed doing and there was no budget to hire it out.

A lot of hats. It is also why very little on a SiteRyze project has to be handed to somebody else.

What he handles

The technical side of your account.

01

Design and build

Custom website development on WordPress and Shopify, built to be edited by the people who own it rather than by whoever built it. Speed, mobile behavior and forms are part of the build, not a phase after it.

Search and local visibility

SEO, Google Business Profile, citations and the technical groundwork underneath both. He also sets the measurement up front so you can tell which calls came from where.

03

Audits

Every free audit is fifty-eight checks written by hand — rankings, technical health, content, design, local presence — with the fixes ranked by what they are worth. See a real example.

Off the clock

Away from the desk.

Justin was born in New Mexico and raised in Phoenix, and lives in Peoria now. He is a Cardinals fan, which in most seasons is a test of character. When he is not working he is usually behind a camera, in the garage building furniture, at the gym, or looking for an excuse to get to the beach.