Our story
Vancouver SEO started because we were tired of watching great local businesses hand thousands of dollars a month to agencies that produced pretty PDF reports and very little else. The founders came out of in-house SEO roles at Vancouver tech companies and SaaS startups, where every dollar spent on marketing had to justify itself with pipeline. When we moved to the agency side, we brought that same accountability with us.
Today we work with dentists, contractors, boutique retailers, law firms, clinics, e-commerce brands and B2B SaaS companies across Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley, the Island and beyond. Some clients want the Map Pack for one neighbourhood. Others want to rank nationally for a category their product invented. Either way, our job is the same: understand the business, ship the work, measure honestly.
What we do best
We are a focused agency, not a full-service marketing shop. That is on purpose. Everything we take on falls under six core disciplines: Local SEO for businesses that live and die by Google Business Profile and the Map Pack, keyword research that maps real buyer intent to real revenue, on-page SEO that fixes the pages already trying to rank, technical SEO for sites that Google struggles to crawl or trust, content strategy that builds topical authority instead of empty word counts, and link building that earns editorial mentions from sites your competitors cannot easily reach.
Because these six areas are our whole world, we stay current. Core Web Vitals updates, Google's helpful-content system, the AI Overview rollout, Bing's Copilot indexing — we read the docs, run the tests, and adjust the playbook so clients do not pay to be our lab rats.
The team
We are deliberately small. Every account is run by a senior strategist with at least five years of hands-on SEO work — not passed to a junior after the sales call. Our specialists cover technical SEO (log-file analysis, JavaScript rendering, schema, Core Web Vitals), content (writers with subject-matter experience in trades, health, legal and SaaS), and outreach (link acquisition via digital PR, resource pages, and journalist queries). When a project needs skills we do not have on staff — advanced conversion-rate optimization, YouTube SEO, paid media — we say so and refer to trusted partners rather than fake expertise.
Results that show up in your bank account
Ranking reports are easy to fake. Traffic graphs are easy to inflate with the wrong keywords. What matters to our clients — and to us — is qualified leads, booked calls, and closed revenue. Every engagement starts by wiring GA4, Search Console, call tracking and CRM data into a single dashboard so we can see which SEO work actually moved the business, not just the vanity metrics. On average our clients see a 3x to 6x return on retainer inside the first year; a few outliers do much better than that, and we are happy to share case studies on request.
Our values
No lock-in
Month-to-month agreements. If we stop earning our fee, you should be able to walk away without a legal fight.
Plain English
No "synergy," no "leveraging paradigms." If you cannot explain the strategy to your accountant, we have not explained it well enough.
Own our mistakes
Google updates, links get disavowed, tests fail. When something breaks, we tell you the same day — with the fix, not the excuse.
Local first
We live here. We know Kitsilano is not Coquitlam, and that BC's regulated industries have search rules Toronto agencies miss.
Why work with us
You should hire Vancouver SEO if you want a partner who treats your marketing budget like their own money, who will tell you when SEO is not the right channel for the job, and who will still be around in two years to answer your emails. You should probably hire someone else if you want a 40-person agency with a slick pitch deck, or a set-it-and-forget-it service that promises page-one rankings in 30 days. Real SEO is compounding, patient work — and the clients who get the biggest wins are the ones who understand that from day one.