Ranking isn't magic.
It's fewer, better pages.
Most SEO pitches are 40-suburb doorway pages and monthly 'content packages' that no one reads. That's not going to work in 2026. Fewer pages, written for a real reader, technically sharp—that does.
Everything on this list.
Nothing on the upsell.
- (01)Technical audit — Core Web Vitals, crawl, schema, canonicals
- (02)Local setup — Google Business Profile, citations, reviews flow
- (03)Keyword map — 10–20 pages, not 200
- (04)Content plan — 2 to 4 real posts per month
- (05)On-page fixes, monthly — titles, meta, internal links, schema
- (06)Backlinks — earned, not bought. No PBNs, no link packages.
- (07)Tracker — your rankings, plus the ones I'll admit to missing
- (08)Monthly strategy call — 30 minutes, no dashboard cosplay
Five steps. Boring. On purpose.
New domain, no authority, competitive niche. We mapped real search intent, wrote 10 focused articles, fixed the technical baseline, and built internal links that reinforced the right pages. Six months in: 19k monthly organic clicks and no doorway page exposure to write off.
Read the full case study→
Things I get asked.
Answered plainly.
No FAQPage schema. On purpose. Google's been penalising it since 2023.
How long until I see results?＋
Technical wins show up in 2–6 weeks. Content and local: 3–6 months. If someone quotes you 30 days, walk out.
Are you going to make me 40 suburb pages?＋
No. Programmatic doorway pages have never aged well, and they age worse under the 2024+ spam updates. I'll build 4–8 excellent local pages.
Do you guarantee rankings?＋
No. Anyone who does is either lying or about to be.
Can you do the writing too?＋
Yes—drafts in my voice or yours, edited by a subject-matter person. If I'm learning your field, I'll tell you.
Do you use AI content?＋
For drafts and research, yes. For publishing, only after a full human rewrite. Pure AI content is not ranking in 2026; I'm not about to gamble your site on it.