BAY AREA SEO SERVICES
Bay Area SEO services
for small businesses.
I am a Bay Area SEO company working with small businesses across the San Francisco Bay Area, from the East Bay to the Peninsula, on the local SEO that decides who gets found. Start by running the free checker on your own website. It shows you what is holding the site back before you spend a dollar with me.
No signup wall. The checker reads your live pages and gives you the list.
WHAT THE CHECKER LOOKS AT
Three questions
about your site.
Search engines decide whether to show you based on a small number of things. These are the three that move local rankings most, and the checker reports on each.
01 / CAN GOOGLE READ IT
The technical
foundation.
If Google cannot crawl a page, nothing else on this list matters.
02 / DO YOU SHOW UP LOCALLY
The map pack
decision.
Local rankings are decided mostly on your profile, not your website.
03 / WHAT TO FIX FIRST
Ranked by
what moves.
Most sites have three problems worth fixing and twenty that are noise.
Layout sample. Your results come from your own pages.
ONE CLIENT, WITH DATES
Black Gem Limo, Bay Area. Five months of work to June 2025, then stopped on purpose. By January 2026 organic clicks had recovered on their own, with no active SEO and no ad spend. One client, one industry, one market, and I do not guarantee positions.
Check the result, with the dates ↗WHAT YOU ACTUALLY GET
What local SEO
actually includes.
Every engagement is some combination of these three. I tell you which ones your site needs after the audit, not before you have paid for anything.
A site search
can read.
Crawl and index fixes, page titles and descriptions written per page, heading structure, internal links, schema markup and mobile performance. This is the work that makes everything else possible.
Technical SEO details ↗Showing up
on the map.
Google Business Profile setup and cleanup, categories, hours, service areas, photo cadence, review replies and citation consistency across directories. Google Business Profile SEO is what decides whether you appear in the map pack at all.
See a local example ↗Pages for what
people search.
Keyword research against your actual city and service, then service pages and blog posts built for those searches. Includes the internal linking so a new page inherits authority instead of sitting alone.
Read the blog ↗Number four is reporting, and it gets its own section below, because a report you cannot read is the thing most agencies count as a deliverable and I do not.
HOW THE WORK RUNS
Audit, priorities,
build, report.
Four stages, in this order, every time. Scroll and the panel shows you what you actually receive at each one.
Audit
I pull your Search Console and Analytics, crawl the site, and check your Google Business Profile. The output is a written list of what is broken with the evidence sitting next to each item, not a score with no explanation.
Priorities
Every finding gets ranked by what it is likely to move against how long it takes. You approve the order before anything is touched. Most sites have three things that matter and twenty that do not, and the twenty are where agencies bill their hours.
Implementation
I do the work. Technical fixes, page rewrites, profile cleanup, content. You see each change as it ships rather than discovering it in a monthly summary written by somebody who did not do it.
Reporting
Monthly, straight from Search Console and Analytics. Clicks, impressions, average position, and which pages moved. Plus what I did and what is next. Every client gets this dashboard at their own domain.
STAGE 01 / THE AUDIT
Findings, with evidence.
STAGE 02 / THE ORDER
Ranked, and agreed.
STAGE 03 / THE WORK
Shipped, one at a time.
STAGE 04 / THE DASHBOARD
Sample figures, for layout
Next month, in order
- Build the three service pages the keyword research identified
- Reply to the four new reviews
- Fix the two pages that dropped out of the index
I built this dashboard myself. It is not a reseller tool, which is why I can tell you where any number on it comes from.
If a stage finds nothing worth doing, I tell you that instead of billing for it. The audit on a small, well built site sometimes comes back with two items, and that is a legitimate result rather than a failure to find enough work.
Three months before rankings move. Six before it is a reliable number of calls.
Hachi hosts the long game here, because the honest answer to "how fast" is the thing most agencies will not say out loud. SEO compounds, which also means it is slow at the start.WHERE I WORK
A Bay Area SEO company,
nine cities.
Search results change city by city. Someone in Concord and someone in Fremont typing the same words get different businesses back, because Google weighs proximity. Each city page covers what is actually different about competing there.
All service areas →BEFORE YOU ASK
Questions I
get every week.
Should I start with SEO or with my Google Business Profile?
If most of your customers find you by searching a service plus a city, start with the profile. It is faster and it is free. If people already find you but do not call, the website is the problem. The checker tells you which situation you are in.
How long before I see anything?
Google Business Profile changes can show inside two weeks. Website SEO is slower. Expect three months before rankings move and six before that turns into a reliable number of calls. Anyone quoting you faster is either lucky or lying.
Can you guarantee I rank number one?
No. Rankings depend on your competition, your industry, how old your domain is and things Google does not publish. I guarantee the work gets done and that you can see the data yourself. Nobody can guarantee a position.
Does the free checker mean you fix my site too?
No, the checker is a diagnosis. Implementation is separate, and I agree scope and price with you before starting. Plenty of people run the checker, fix the list themselves and never hire me. That is a fine outcome.
Who actually does the work?
I do. There is no account manager and no junior staff. I built the SEO checker and the client dashboard on this site myself, which is unusual for someone selling local SEO, and it means when you ask where a number comes from I can answer.
How is a one person SEO company different from a bigger Bay Area SEO firm?
A bigger firm sells you a team, and usually a reporting tool somebody else built. Here the person you talk to is the person doing the work, and I wrote the software myself: the free SEO check on this site and the client dashboard. When a number looks wrong, I can open the code and tell you why. What you give up is size. I take a small number of clients at a time.
Do you work outside the nine cities listed?
Yes, anywhere in the Bay Area. The work happens in Search Console, your Google Business Profile and your website, so I do not need to be in your city to do it. Your location still matters for rankings, which is why each city page explains what is different about competing there.
What does it cost?
Project work is quoted after the audit, because a five page site and a fifty page site are not the same job. There is also a fixed price consultation that delivers the audit and the prioritized plan as a standalone deliverable. Pricing is on the pricing page.
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