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SEO services that start with how the site is built.

Most SEO problems are technical or structural before they're about content. Pages load slowly, render in ways search engines struggle to read, compete with each other for the same searches, or describe the business too vaguely to be chosen for anything. We diagnose those problems — and because we also build websites, we can usually fix the code that causes them, instead of sending a list of recommendations to a developer who may never get to it.

Technical SEOOn-page SEOLocal SEOEntity SEOStructured dataAI-search readiness

The work covers the three places customers now look: traditional search results, local map listings, and the answers produced by AI search tools. It's measured against what matters to the business — whether the right people find you and get in touch.

Definition

What is SEO?

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the work of making a website easy for search engines to find, understand and trust, so that it appears when people search for what the business offers. It has three parts that depend on each other:

  • Technical SEO — whether search engines can crawl, render and index the site efficiently
  • Content and on-page SEO — whether each page clearly matches what people search for, and whether the site as a whole covers its subjects thoroughly
  • Authority and trust — whether other sources, reviews and consistent information across the web confirm the business is credible

For businesses that serve a local area, local SEO adds a fourth: visibility in map results, driven largely by Google Business Profile. And increasingly, AI-search readiness — making the business easy for AI systems to identify and describe — builds on all of the above.

SEO isn't a one-time task. Competitors publish, search engines change how they evaluate pages, and businesses add services and locations. The foundations are built once; visibility is maintained continuously.

What's included

What you get

Every engagement starts with an audit. What follows depends on what it finds — not every site needs every item below, and we won't bill for work that won't move anything.

Technical SEO audit and fixes

We examine how search engines experience the site and fix what's getting in the way:

  • Crawlability — internal links that reach every important page, an accurate XML sitemap, a correctly configured robots.txt
  • Indexing — making sure the right pages are indexed and the wrong ones (thin archives, filtered duplicates, staging copies) aren't
  • Rendering — confirming that content search engines need is present in the page as served, not only after JavaScript runs
  • Canonicalization — one authoritative URL for each piece of content, so ranking signals aren't split between duplicates
  • Redirects — broken links and redirect chains cleaned up; permanent redirects where URLs have changed
  • Performance — page speed and Core Web Vitals, particularly on mobile
  • Mobile usability — readable text, usable forms and tap targets that work on a phone

Where the site allows it, we make these fixes in the code directly.

On-page SEO and content architecture

Each important page given one clear job: a single topic, matched to the searches that express it, with titles, headings and content that make that job obvious. Then the structure between pages — which pages link to which, and why — organized so the site shows search engines how its subjects relate. This is how a site builds topical authority: not by publishing more, but by covering its subjects completely and connecting them logically.

It's also where we find keyword cannibalization — several pages competing for the same search, none of them winning. Consolidating or differentiating those pages is often one of the quickest improvements available.

Local SEO and Google Business Profile

For businesses that serve customers in a specific area or across several locations:

  • Google Business Profile optimized — categories, services, service areas, hours, photos, posts and questions
  • Business name, address and phone number made consistent across the web
  • Location and service-area pages written with real local substance, rather than one template with the town name changed
  • A process for earning genuine reviews and responding to them

Semantic and entity SEO

Search engines increasingly understand the web as entities — businesses, people, places, services — and the relationships between them. Entity SEO makes those relationships unambiguous: who the business is, what it does, where it operates, who leads it and what it's known for. That clarity comes from consistent content across the site, clear "about" and service information, and structured data that states it directly.

Structured data

Schema markup that tells search engines explicitly what a page represents — the organization, its services, its locations, its people, its articles and its FAQs. Structured data only helps when it accurately describes what's visible on the page, so we write it to match, and don't add markup for things the page doesn't contain.

AI-search readiness

Covered in detail below. In short: making the business easy for AI answer engines to identify and describe accurately, using the same foundations as good SEO.

Redesign and migration protection

If a rebuild or platform change is planned, we map every changed URL to its new equivalent, preserve content that ranks, and check the new site technically before launch. Most traffic lost after a redesign is lost through avoidable migration mistakes.

Reporting against real outcomes

Monthly reporting on visibility, search traffic and — where tracking allows — the inquiries it produces. Rankings are reported as a means, not an end.

Local SEO

Local SEO in detail

How does local SEO work?

When someone searches for a service with local intent — "dentist near me," "roof repair in [city]," "family therapist [area]" — search engines show a map with a small number of businesses alongside the regular results. Visibility in that map depends mainly on three things:

Relevance

How well the business matches the search

Google Business Profile categories and services; service pages on the website

Distance

How close the business is to the searcher or the area named

Accurate address or service areas; location pages for each real location

Prominence

How well known and trusted the business appears

Reviews, consistent business listings, links and mentions, website authority

Distance can't be changed. Relevance and prominence can — and many businesses leave both underdeveloped.

Common local SEO problems we fix

Multi-location businesses

Businesses with several locations need each location represented properly — its own Business Profile, its own page with location-specific content, and consistent structure across all of them. Getting this right at the start is far easier than untangling duplicated profiles and pages later.

AI search

AI-search optimization in detail

What is AI-search optimization?

AI-search optimization — also called answer engine optimization (AEO) or generative engine optimization (GEO) — is the practice of making a business easy for AI systems to identify, understand and describe accurately. It applies to AI-generated summaries in search results and to AI assistants people ask for information and recommendations.

What we can — and can't — tell you

The companies that build these systems don't publish exactly how they choose sources, and they change them often. Anyone who claims to know precisely how a particular AI system ranks or cites websites, or guarantees that a business will be recommended, is overstating what can be known.

What is observable is that clear, consistent, well-structured and credible information is easier for any system to use correctly. So the work focuses on practices that make sense regardless of how any one system works:

How it fits with SEO

AI-search optimization isn't a separate service bolted on. It's what thorough SEO looks like now that some of the audience summarizes rather than lists. Every SEO engagement we run includes it; we don't sell it separately as a replacement for the fundamentals.

Process

How an SEO engagement runs

01

Audit

Technical review, content and keyword mapping, local presence, competitor comparison, and a check of how consistently the business is described across the web.

02

Priorities

A ranked list of fixes by likely impact and effort, agreed with you before work begins. Technical and structural problems usually come first: content built on a broken foundation underperforms.

03

Foundations

Technical fixes, page consolidation, internal linking and structured data.

04

Visibility

Content for services and questions that aren't covered well yet, local presence, and authority-building — month by month.

05

Reporting and review

Monthly reports and a regular review of what's working, with the plan adjusted accordingly.

Worth knowing

Common SEO mistakes

  1. 01

    Publishing more content before fixing the foundations. New articles on a site with indexing or cannibalization problems often rank for nothing.

  2. 02

    Targeting search volume instead of intent. A term with fewer searches but clear buying intent usually produces more business than a popular informational one.

  3. 03

    Treating a redesign as a design project. Redesigns without redirect mapping regularly erase years of search visibility.

  4. 04

    Installing an SEO plugin and stopping there. Plugins provide settings; they don't make decisions about structure, content or priorities.

  5. 05

    Adding schema that doesn't match the page. Structured data should describe what's visible. Markup for content that isn't there can be ignored or treated as spam.

  6. 06

    Measuring rankings instead of inquiries. Ranking first for a term nobody buys from is not an outcome.

  7. 07

    Buying links. Paid link schemes carry real risk and rarely produce lasting results.

Who it's for

Is this you?

SEO is most valuable for businesses where one customer is worth a meaningful amount and most customers start with a search. Our search work includes healthcare and clinical psychology practices, real estate businesses, and contractors and home-service companies. Usually, the situation looks like one of these:

If a single customer isn't worth much to you, SEO may take too long to pay back. We'll say so on the first call.

Investment

What it costs

SEO is priced after the audit, because what a site needs varies enormously. The main factors:

Size and technical state of the site

A site with indexing or migration problems needs foundational work first

Number of services and locations

Each needs its own properly built page and, for locations, its own profile

Competition in your market

Crowded markets need more content and authority work

Content production

Whether pages need writing from scratch or improving

Whether a redesign is planned

Migration protection is a distinct piece of work

See the full pricing guide →

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

How long does SEO take to work?+

Technical fixes can show effects within weeks, once pages are recrawled. Meaningful gains in competitive searches usually take several months or more, depending on the market and the site's starting point. Claims of fast results for competitive terms usually involve terms nobody searches.

What's the difference between technical SEO and content SEO?+

Technical SEO is whether search engines can find, render and understand your pages. Content SEO is whether those pages say what people search for, clearly and completely. Technical problems limit what content can achieve, so they usually come first.

Do you guarantee rankings?+

No. Nobody controls how search engines rank pages, and guarantees in this field are a warning sign. We commit to the work, the priorities and transparent reporting.

Can you do SEO on a site you didn't build?+

Yes. We audit whatever platform you use. If the platform itself is the obstacle, we'll tell you, but most sites can be improved without a rebuild.

What is local SEO?+

Visibility for searches with local intent, particularly in map results — driven by your Google Business Profile, consistent business information, reviews, and location-relevant pages on your website.

What is AI-search optimization?+

Making the business easy for AI systems to identify and describe accurately, through clear entity information, answer-first content, named authorship, structured data and strong traditional SEO. It builds on SEO rather than replacing it.

Do you write content?+

We plan content architecture and produce or improve service and location pages as part of the work. For specialist subjects — medical, legal, technical — content should be reviewed by the people with that expertise before publication.

How do you report results?+

Monthly: visibility, search traffic, and — where tracking is set up — the inquiries that search produces.

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We'll review the site's technical health, how it's structured for search, how consistently your business appears across the web, and where you stand against competitors — then walk you through what we'd fix first.