SEO Services
Small Business SEO Services That Start With Honesty.
Here's what most SEO services are actually selling you: a dashboard. Monthly reports. Position graphs. A lot of green checkmarks that feel like progress but don't add up to anything real.
I don't do that.
What I offer is small business SEO services built on the actual work. Audit first. Strategy second. Implementation if you're on WordPress. No ranking guarantees, no vanity reports, no activity theater.
That might sound less exciting than a colorful dashboard. It is. It also works.
The Process
Here's How It Works
SEO isn't a product you buy once and walk away from. It's a process with a logical sequence. You can't build a strategy without knowing what you're working with, and you can't implement without a strategy worth implementing.
Before anything else, I need to know what's actually going on with your site. The audit covers a crawl-based technical review, keyword and content gap analysis, on-page issues across your priority pages, and local SEO health if relevant.
You get a clear, prioritized list of what's broken, what's weak, and what to fix first. No jargon. No 40-page PDF designed to look impressive and be ignored. A document you can actually act on.
Complex sites with significant technical issues or large page counts are scoped separately.
Any PlatformOnce I know what's wrong, we build the plan to fix it. Keyword research scoped to your actual services and your actual competition, not just whatever has high search volume nationally. A content roadmap. On-page recommendations with specific instructions for every priority page.
You get a document. A real strategy. Something you or your team can execute, hand to a writer, or bring back to me for implementation.
Any PlatformThis is where I go into your site and do the work. RankMath setup and configuration. Title tags, meta descriptions, permalink structure. Schema markup. Internal linking. Technical fixes from the audit. On-page optimization where it counts most.
Scoped before we start so there are no surprises. Typical small business projects run six to ten hours.
WordPress OnlyNot every client needs this. But if you want a partner paying attention to your site over time — consistent content strategy, periodic technical checks, optimization as your site grows — this is how we structure it.
Ongoing SEO folds into the monthly retainer. One relationship, not a separate contract for every service.
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Who this is for
You have a site. It exists. But people aren't finding it — or they're finding it for the wrong things.
After 15 years of working with small businesses, I can tell you the problems are almost always the same. No keyword strategy. Pages optimized for nothing in particular. A Google Business Profile that hasn't been touched since setup. Content that's genuinely useful but invisible because nothing's been done to help search engines understand it.
These are fixable problems. They just require someone to look at your site honestly and tell you what's actually wrong.
This is also the right fit if you're building a new site and want to get the SEO foundation right from the start — not six months after launch when you realize no one's showing up.
In Practice
A small studio's site was stuck on page three. Key service pages weren't showing up anywhere useful. Six months of foundational work moved several competitive keywords onto page two — with a handful landing on page one.
Not overnight. Not magic. Just the right structural work done consistently.
Boundaries
What I don't do
This matters as much as what's included. Be skeptical of anyone who doesn't have a list like this.
Ranking Guarantees
No one can promise you a specific position on Google. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something that isn't theirs to sell.
No Vanity Reporting
You'll get monthly updates showing what was done and how it moved the needle — not colored ranking grids dressed up to look like progress.
Link Building Campaigns
Link building matters. Systematic outreach campaigns are outside this scope. The strategy document includes guidance — the execution is yours.
Non-WordPress Implementation
Strategy and advisory works for any platform. Getting into your Squarespace or Wix backend doesn't. That's a deliberate boundary, not an arbitrary one.
Frequently Asked Questions.
Your Site Has More Potential Than It's Showing.
You've done the hard work of building something worth finding. Let's make sure people can actually find it.