Real audits, real fixes, real rankings— for small business websites that should be showing up on Google and aren’t.

A full crawl of your site to identify every issue Google cares about: crawlability and indexation gaps, broken internal links, missing or duplicate meta tags, improper canonical tags, thin or duplicate content, schema markup gaps, Core Web Vitals failures, mobile usability issues, HTTPS and security issues, and sitemap or robots.txt problems. Each issue is ranked by impact and mapped to a specific fix with estimated effort. You get the audit as a plain-English report, not a Screaming Frog CSV dump.

Those agencies sell cold outbound, automated audits generated by a tool, and six-month retainers that mostly produce reports. I do real technical audits by hand, fix what is actually broken, and hand you the result. No retainer, no ongoing fee, no monthly "SEO report" that does not tell you anything. If your site is fundamentally fine and just needs content production (which I do not do), I will tell you that instead of billing you.

Technical fixes — sitemaps, schema markup, Core Web Vitals, indexation — often move rankings in 2–6 weeks once Google re-crawls. Keyword and content work takes longer, 3–6 months minimum, because Google needs to see sustained topical authority build. Anyone promising you #1 rankings in 30 days is either lying or about to run a link-buying scheme that gets you penalized. Honest work takes honest time.

No. Link-building is either slow and organic (content, PR, real human relationships) or it is the gray-hat kind that works until Google updates an algorithm and you lose everything. Neither is a good fit for a one-person practice delivering fixed-price work. I will flag link-worthy content opportunities during the audit, but building the links is your move — or an agency that specializes in it.

Technical SEO is the plumbing: can Google crawl, index, render, and understand your site correctly? Does your site load fast? Is the schema markup right? Are you canonicalizing properly? Content SEO is the substance: does your site actually say useful things about the topics you want to rank for, written well enough that humans link to it? I do technical SEO and foundational content mapping (what pages you need, what each should target). Ongoing blog content is a different operational commitment I do not take on.

Yes, and this is where SMBs get the biggest lift fastest. Local SEO — Google Business Profile optimization, LocalBusiness schema, city-specific landing pages, review aggregation, NAP consistency — moves small business rankings faster than national SEO ever will. If you are trying to rank for "contractor Abbotsford" or "dentist Maple Ridge," you are competing against other local SMBs, not national brands with agency budgets. The fix is usually a clear-cut set of technical and content changes.

Probably not. Most SMB websites do not need monthly SEO work — they need their technical SEO fixed once, a keyword map they can follow, and then their team (or you) focused on publishing something useful every quarter. If you are in a high-velocity content category and genuinely need ongoing optimization, there are specialist agencies for that — I am happy to point you at good ones. For most SMBs, a one-time audit plus implementation plus quarterly check-ins is plenty.

I audit and fix all three. WordPress has the most technical flexibility (I can implement most fixes directly). Wix and Squarespace have platform-imposed limits — some fixes require workarounds, and a handful are not possible at all (which is part of why I build the Five-Year Website on Next.js). Shopify I audit and implement within the platform’s theme and app ecosystem. If the audit concludes your platform is itself the problem, I will tell you that honestly — but I will not push a rebuild just because I do rebuilds.