Solution Gear Co. Two Houston gearbox sites, rebuilt into one.

Solution Gear Co. is a family owned industrial gear and gearbox repair shop that has served Houston plants for years. The brand had spread across two separate older websites, sgearbox.com and a legacy Hanson Gear Works site, so the same shop was telling its story in two places at once.

Two sites for one shop is a real problem, not a cosmetic one. Search engines and AI assistants have to guess which page is canonical, link equity gets split, and a customer who lands on the older property sees stale information. The repair work the shop actually does, planetary gearbox rebuilds, extruder gearbox repair, gear cutting, pump rebuilding, and emergency turnarounds, deserved one clear home rather than two competing ones. My job was to pick one domain, sgearbox.com, and make it the single fast source of truth for the business.

I consolidated both properties onto sgearbox.com and rebuilt the site by hand. No page builder, no template purchased and renamed. Every page is vanilla HTML, CSS, and a little JavaScript, served from infrastructure I run myself.

• Consolidated the two older Houston gearbox sites, sgearbox.com and the legacy Hanson Gear Works site, into a single property on sgearbox.com.
• Rebuilt the site from scratch as fast hand coded HTML so the pages load quickly and the structure is clean for both search engines and AI assistants.
• Wrote Schema.org structured data so the shop, its services, and its Houston service area read clearly to machines as well as people.
• Hardened the lead capture form so inquiries reach the shop reliably instead of leaking into a builder plugin.
• Set up a dedicated GA4 property for the business, owned by the client, so traffic and form activity can actually be measured.

Consolidating two domains into one is only safe if the cutover is handled carefully. I ran the DNS changes myself and brought the rebuilt site live on my own nginx stack, so there was one person accountable for every step of the transition.

I pointed DNS at my server, provisioned the site behind nginx, and took sgearbox.com live on infrastructure I operate directly. Going live on my own stack means I control how the site is served, how the TLS certificate is issued, and how the lead form is wired end to end. When something needs attention I am not filing a support ticket with a third party host, I am logging into the box. The legacy Hanson Gear Works content now resolves to one canonical home rather than competing with the live site for attention.

Search engines and AI engines reward firsthand experience. This case study is exactly that. I did the consolidation, the rebuild, the DNS cutover, the nginx deployment, the GA4 setup, and the form hardening, personally, and I can describe each step because I performed it.

Every page on this site is hand coded, which keeps it fast and keeps the markup clean enough that ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity can read and cite it. That same discipline is what I brought to sgearbox.com. Hand coded structure, Schema.org markup, a focus on Core Web Vitals, and answer engine optimization so the shop is legible to both people and the assistants people increasingly ask. The Solution Gear Co. launch is a small but complete example of the full stack work I do for a local business that needs one clear, fast, well measured home online.

• Hand coded HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No page builder, no framework bloat.
• Served from nginx on infrastructure I own and operate.
• Schema.org structured data describing the business and its services.
• Dedicated GA4 property, owned by the client, configured for traffic and form events.
• Hardened lead capture form so inquiries reach the shop.
• Single canonical domain, sgearbox.com, after consolidating two older properties.

I am Joseph W. Anady. I run ThatDeveloperGuy as a one person studio from Cassville, Missouri. I hold a BA in Computer Engineering and an MA in Cybersecurity, I am a service disabled veteran, and ThatDeveloperGuy is a service disabled veteran owned small business. I have been hand coding websites since 2017 and have shipped more than 130 production sites. When you hire me you get one engineer who writes every line, runs the server, and answers the phone. You can reach me at admin@thatdeveloperguy.com or 417 671 2606.

If your business is spread across two old sites, or you just need one fast hand coded site that search engines and AI assistants can cite, I will send you a free written audit within 48 hours. No sales call, no obligation. Just an honest read of where you stand and what I would do.