SEO services for small businesses that get you found on Google

Google takes time to trust a new page: it has to find it, read it and see that visitors stay. That clock starts the day the page goes live, and there's no paying to speed it up.

Meanwhile, the businesses at the top keep getting the visits, the calls and, with them, the reviews that keep them there. Every month you wait is another month of head start for them. To see where you stand, request the free audit.

Google crawls your site, stores the pages it finds useful and, when someone searches, ranks the ones that answer best. Search engine optimization means helping it at each of those three moments, and it comes down to four things, often called the pillars of SEO. It's common for a site to get one or two right and forget the rest: great copy on a site that takes forever to load, or a lightning-fast site with three pages that answer nothing. If you suspect something's off under the hood, an SEO audit finds it and ranks it by what it costs you.

The riskiest moment is changing websites. If old addresses disappear without pointing anywhere, Google loses what it learned from them. That's why every redesign we do includes a website migration that keeps what already brings you visits: we keep the domain and every old address points to its new page.

There are two ways to get SEO done: a consultant working on their own or a larger SEO company. Pure SEO consulting often ends in a list of recommendations someone else has to carry out; an agency usually makes the changes too. Either can work well or go wrong, and how the person in front of you works matters more than the label.

A freelance SEO expert gives you direct contact with whoever does the work. The limit is one person's time: if they're busy, you wait, and if copy needs writing, the site needs changes or the Maps listing needs fixing, you end up coordinating other people. We're two SEO specialists, Òscar Bordetas and Carles Encinas, and between us we cover every piece: searches, copy, website, Google listing and tracking, at a published monthly fee.

Whoever you pick, ask them to show you what they'd do for your business before you pay; we send you that for free in the audit. Be wary of anyone guaranteeing first place, and check that the website, domain and Google accounts will be in your name. Google's own guide to hiring an SEO also suggests asking what results they expect and in what timeframe.

A small business doesn't need the same SEO as a national store with thousands of products. An auto shop, an accounting office or a remodeling company usually has a handful of services, a clear service area and competitors you can name on page one. That works in your favor: with a few well-built pages and a solid Google Business Profile, there's a lot of ground to gain.

Most of your customers search nearby. For those searches Google shows a map with three businesses first, and the listing, the reviews and a website that backs up the listing decide who gets in. That's why, in almost every small business project, website SEO and local SEO go together. If you run an online store, the work is quite different and we cover it in ecommerce SEO.

A monthly fee we quote for your business after the free audit, because it depends on how many services and areas there are to work on and how much competition you have. It includes the setup (keyword research, the pages you're missing, your Google Business Profile and the fixes to your site) and then each month's work: new pages, reviews, local mentions and lead tracking. There's no setup fee and no long-term contract; you can cancel with 30 days' notice.

You don't pay the first fee until the setup is live and you've checked it. If your business also needs a new website, that's separate and paid once it's done; we tell you in the audit, before anything starts. To compare with other agencies, read how much SEO costs; all our prices are on our pricing page.