What you get
What our SEO work covers
Search work is maintenance, not a one-off project. Here is what the monthly fee actually buys.
Technical audit and fixes
Crawl errors, broken links, duplicate pages, slow templates and mobile faults found and fixed first. There is no point promoting a site search engines struggle to read.
Keyword research
What people in your towns actually type when they need your trade — which is rarely the phrase a business uses about itself.
Pages written for real queries
Content written for the searches that bring enquiries, in language your customers use, not stuffed with repetitions of a target phrase.
Google Business Profile
Categories, service areas, hours, photos and posts kept accurate and current. For local trades this is often worth more than the website itself.
Citations and reviews
Consistent business details across the directories that matter locally, and a workable process for earning reviews rather than buying them.
Reporting that means something
Rankings, yes — but mostly calls and enquiries, because that is the number that pays for the work.
How it runs
How the first six months run
Technical first, content second, signals third. Doing it in another order wastes the first three months.
Audit and research
We audit the site and research your market and competitors before recommending anything at all.
Fix the technical faults
Crawlability, speed, mobile and structure sorted out so the pages we build can actually rank.
Build the pages
Service and location pages written for the queries the research identified.
Earn the signals
Profile, citations, reviews and genuinely relevant links, reported monthly.
Symptoms
Why a good business ranks badly
Almost never because the business is worse. Usually because of one of these.
- Ranking on page four for your own core service
- A site search engines cannot crawl properly
- Pages targeting terms nobody actually searches
- A Business Profile with the wrong hours or address
- No new reviews in twelve months
- Competitors ranking above you in your own town
- Pages that load slowly on a phone
- Content written about you rather than for customers
The difference
Cheap SEO versus work that holds up
The gap shows up around month four, which is usually after the cheap contract has been paid.
| The $199-a-month version | Done properly | |
|---|---|---|
| Keywords | Whatever is easiest to rank for | What your customers search |
| Reporting | Ranking screenshots | Calls and enquiries |
| Content | Thin and spun | Written for your trade |
| Links | Bought directory listings | Genuine local relevance |
| Technical faults | Left untouched | Fixed before anything else |
| What is promised | “Page one in 30 days” | An honest timescale in months |
Service area
Local SEO across the Lower Mainland
Most of our clients want to be found in the towns they actually serve, which is a different job from ranking nationally — and a far more achievable one.
Questions
SEO questions we get asked
How long does SEO take to work?
Local results often move in two to three months. Competitive terms take six to twelve. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is either targeting phrases nobody searches or doing something that will cost you later.
Can you guarantee a number one ranking?
No, and neither can anyone else — nobody controls the results page. What we can commit to is the work, the reporting and honesty about what is realistic for your market.
What is local SEO?
Optimising to appear for searches with local intent: your town plus your service, and the map results. It covers your Google Business Profile, consistent business details across the web, reviews, and pages written for the areas you serve.
Do I need a new website to rank?
Often not. Many sites rank far better after technical fixes and better content on the pages that already exist. We tell you honestly which situation you are in after the audit.
What do you actually do each month?
Technical monitoring and fixes, new or rewritten pages, Business Profile work, citation and review activity, and a report. You get a plain list of what was done, not just a rankings chart.
How do you report results?
Monthly, covering rankings for the terms we agreed, organic traffic, and — most importantly — calls and form enquiries, so you can see what the work returned rather than just that numbers moved.
Next step
Let's see where you actually rank.
We audit the site, research what your market really searches for, and show you the gap in plain numbers before you commit to anything.