Step 1
Discovery & Audit
One thorough read of your site, search footprint, and competitive landscape so every recommendation starts from ground truth — not assumptions.
Vancouver’s search results are dominated by businesses that built their digital presence years before most of their competitors even had a website. Real estate, home services, healthcare, hospitality, almost every category already has an established player sitting on page one, and a site that has not been touched since it launched is losing ground to them every day.
The issue is rarely the quality of the business itself. It is usually that the website never told Google exactly what the business does, where it operates across the Lower Mainland or who it actually serves. Pages that read the same for Kitsilano as they do for Surrey. A Google Business Profile that is half filled in. Those gaps are what keep a good business invisible while a weaker competitor with better on-page SEO gets the call instead.
Search engine optimization is the fix, though it is a build, not a switch you flip. Done right it becomes a source of steady, qualified traffic that keeps compounding, without paying for every single click the way paid search demands.
Qualified lead rate from properly structured local landing pages compared to a single homepage
Average cost per lead versus paid search only, after twelve months of organic investment
Average increase in non-brand organic sessions after six months for Vancouver service business clients
These numbers come from our Vancouver and Lower Mainland client work. Your results will depend on your industry, how competitive your category already is and how quickly changes can go live. We give you a realistic picture before we start, not after six months of guessing.
Web design, online business optimization (OBO), and managed website hosting are part of how we work in Vancouver too — each line of business has its own city page when published, scoped to local search, conversion, and uptime.
We begin by mapping exactly where you rank today, what your strongest local competitors are doing better and what is stopping Google from showing your site to Vancouver searchers in the first place.
From there we build a plan. Technical fixes come first, since content built on top of a site Google cannot crawl properly does not rank no matter how good it reads. Then we build out your service pages around how people actually search across the region. If you serve Kitsilano, Commercial Drive, the West End or reach further out to Richmond and Burnaby, each area gets content written specifically for it instead of one page trying to cover everything.
Your local business visibility gets the same attention, because a large share of Vancouver’s local searches end at the map pack, not the website. Getting that listing complete and accurate is often the difference between a call and a scroll past.
Everything we do gets reported back in plain English. You will know exactly what changed, why we made that call and whether it is actually working.
Every SEO engagement follows the same five-step rhythm — built around your site's real technical state, your market, and the search behaviour of your actual buyers.
One thorough read of your site, search footprint, and competitive landscape so every recommendation starts from ground truth — not assumptions.
A prioritized plan covering technical fixes, content gaps, and local or national opportunity — scoped to your vertical and what you can actually implement.
Technical fixes ship, priority pages get optimized, internal linking gets structured, and schema gets applied where it moves the needle.
Reporting anchored to non-brand sessions, qualified leads, and conversion proxies — not vanity rankings. We adjust based on what the data shows.
As early wins index and compound, we expand into adjacent keywords, new service areas, and deeper content clusters — scaling what works.
Vancouver is really a collection of very different pockets of demand. Someone searching from Kitsilano for a contractor is not behaving the same way as someone in Richmond searching for the same service, and treating the whole metro as one audience leaves real search volume on the table.
We build your program around that. That means local SEO content mapped to the specific areas you serve, a Google Business Profile that reflects your real coverage and a keyword research strategy that does not assume every part of the region searches the same way.
Vancouver also has one of the most linguistically diverse populations in the country, with large numbers of people searching in Mandarin, Cantonese, Punjabi and Tagalog. If those communities are part of your customer base, we can build content that captures that demand instead of ceding it to a competitor.
Check out how we boosted traffic and conversions for these businesses
A small roofing contractor in Chicago came to us with a basic 2-page Wix website that wasn’t ranking anywhere on Google and brought in almost no traffic. We rebuilt the site on WordPress, added fully optimized pages, implemented technical fixes and built out a clean SEO structure.
Traffic 4 to 120 Monthly Visitors Search queries 35+ Top-Ranking Keywords New Keywords From 0-2 to ~10 calls/month View Case Medicinal Spa SEO Case StudyA California medical spa saw a 419% boost in organic traffic and consistent lead flow after 12-months of SEO focused on local rankings, content optimization & Google Business Profile optimization.
Traffic +419% Traffic Growth Search queries +160+ Ranking Keywords New Keywords ~ +300% Inquiries View Case E-Commerce Pet Supply SEO Case StudyA new Canadian pet supply store launched with zero authority and no organic visibility. SEOrca built a data-driven SEO foundation across structure, content and technical fixes. Within 18 months, the site hit 8,000 organic visitors/month and doubled conversions.
Traffic ~8,000 Monthly Visitors Search queries 7.1% Conversion Rate New Keywords 200+ Keywords Ranked View Case Calgary Law Firm SEO Case StudyA Calgary law firm saw a 163% boost in organic traffic and doubled its client inquiries after a 12-month SEO campaign focused on visibility, technical cleanup and trust-building through optimized service content.
Traffic +163% Organic Traffic Search queries ~12,800 Search Queries New Keywords 61+ New Keywords View Case Dress Rental SEO Case StudyA local dress rental studio grew from city-level visibility to ranking nationally for niche long train gown keywords after a full site redesign and SEO campaign focused on technical optimization and a correct eCommerce structure.
Traffic +171% Organic Traffic Search queries ~230K Impressions New Keywords 78+ New Keywords View Case Manitoba Cannabis Dispensary SEO Case StudyA locally owned dispensary in Manitoba improved visibility and customer traffic with a 176% increase in organic visits after a 9-month SEO strategy focused on local search, product schema and content optimization.
Traffic +176% Traffic Search queries ~6,500 Search Queries New Keywords 42+ New Keywords View Case Seattle Plumbing SEO Case StudyA Seattle-based plumbing company struggling with visibility saw a 212% traffic increase after a full SEO overhaul focused on local rankings, site structure and Google Business Profile optimization.
Traffic +212% Traffic Search queries +10,000 Search Queries New Keywords 35+ New Keywords View Case
Most clients see the first movement within two to three months once technical fixes are live and new pages get indexed. Vancouver is a competitive market, so the larger gains tend to build over six to twelve months. We walk you through what a realistic timeline looks like before we ever start work.
Send us your website and tell us what you are trying to grow. We will come back with an honest read of where you stand and what a program would involve.
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