San Diego SEO company, ranking businesses across San Diego County and Southern California
If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are. You see the first improvements in 20 days. Month to month, no long contract.
30 minutes on Google Meet. For businesses doing $20k a month or more.
4.8
on Google, from 197 reviews
4.6
on Trustpilot, from 55 reviews
Top 5%
SEO agencies in the world, by Mayple
13 yrs
ranking businesses in the US and Canada
As seen in and rated on
Crowded map. Vague promises.
San Diego is the second biggest city in California, and every search here has a dozen businesses fighting for three spots on the map. Most agencies sell a template with the city name swapped in, then ask for a year to see if it works.
What a San Diego search on Google Maps looks like
Three spots. Everyone else waits behind “More places”.
Google shows three businesses under the map. Our job is to put you in one of them, for the searches that bring in paying customers.
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San Diego customers search for San Diego businesses. A page that says “Southern California” and nothing else gives Google no reason to show you here.
02
Sign for 6 or 12 months, wait 3 to 6 for something to move, and read reports about “visibility” while the calls go elsewhere.
03
Google Maps shows different businesses in La Jolla, Mission Valley and Chula Vista. One page for the whole county can’t win all three.
Most agencies hide the timeline. We put ours in writing.
See our guaranteesReal names. Top positions.
Clients across California and the West, and the searches they now win. Type any of them into Google yourself.
Sanjay Grover MD · Newport Beach, CA · Plastic surgery
#17 #1
“Best plastic surgery near me”, Google Maps
A 20-day campaign in one of the most competitive cosmetic surgery markets in the country. “Best breast augmentation surgeons” went from #15 to #1, “cosmetic surgeons near me” from #24 to #2. Seven of eight target searches finished in the top three.
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Sacramento, CA · HVACGo Pro Plumbing, Heating & Air, #1When the AC stops working, people call one of the first businesses Google shows them. A competitor pays for the ad at the top. Go Pro is the first business Google ranks right underneath it.Read the case study
Google search: Las Vegas car wrap · first result
Las Vegas, NV · Vehicle wrapsPurple Flare Wraps, #1On Google for “Las Vegas car wrap”, followed by 78 conversions from organic search in June 2025.Read the case study
Southwest Kitchen and Bath · Tucson, AZ · Remodelling
5 at #1
Searches on Google Maps
Kitchen and bath remodel searches, first on the map.
Client-confirmed result
Angkorscape · Seattle, WA · Landscape design
#1
“Luxury landscape design”
And named in Google’s AI answers for Seattle.
Read the case study
360 Hazardous Cleanup · Louisville, KY
#50 #2
Average spot on Google Maps
All 8 target searches in the top three after 20 days.
Read the case study
★★★★★ Trustpilot
“We hired them about 6 months ago with guarantees they met a month earlier than expected. […] We had an in-house SEO team for years […] they could never do what AM can do, even if we gave them twice the time.”
Dates first. Then the work.
Days 1 to 20
We search your services from the parts of San Diego you serve, fix whatever slows your website down or hides it from Google, and set up your Google Maps listing so it shows for the searches that bring paying customers. You see the first improvements inside 20 days. That’s our first guarantee.
Days 21 to 60
Pages for each service and each area you cover, mentions of you on trusted San Diego and industry websites, and listings in the local directories Google checks. Your qualifying keywords reach page one within 60 days. That’s our second guarantee.
Day 61 on
More searches, more neighbourhoods, then North County, Orange County and Los Angeles if you serve them. And your name in Google’s AI answers and ChatGPT when people ask who to hire.
Every San Diego plan includes
Every job that moves you up. Done for you.
Google decides who ranks in San Diego from your Maps listing, your website, who mentions you, how close you are to the searcher, and now what its AI can say about you. We run all eight jobs below, so you never juggle five vendors or learn the jargon.
01 · Google Maps
Your Google Business Profile is the listing in the three spots under the map. We choose the categories San Diego customers actually search, list every service, add real photos of your work and post regular updates, so Google has everything it needs to show you for the right searches.
What you get: more calls, website visits and direction requests from Google Maps.
02 · Reviews
Reviews are one of the signals Google weighs, next to relevance, distance, links and your website. They are also what customers read before they pick up the phone. We set up an easy way to ask happy customers at the right moment, and every review gets a reply.
What you get: a steady flow of fresh reviews that give people who find you a reason to call.
03 · Local listings
Google checks that your name, address and phone number match everywhere: Apple Maps, Bing, Yelp, Nextdoor, and San Diego and industry directories. We correct the wrong ones and add the missing ones.
What you get: Google trusts your San Diego address and shows you nearby.
04 · Website fixes
We fix what stops Google reading your website: slow pages, broken links, pages it can’t find, layouts that break on phones. Then we add the code behind the scenes that tells Google what you sell, where you work and when you’re open.
What you get: every page you have can rank, on phones as well as laptops.
05 · Pages that rank
One page for each service you sell and each area you serve, written the way people search here: “dentist La Jolla”, “HVAC repair Chula Vista”, “personal injury lawyer Mission Valley”. Each answers what buyers ask before they call.
What you get: you show up for dozens of searches across the county, not just one.
06 · Trusted mentions
Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for. We earn mentions and links from San Diego news and community sites, business associations, suppliers and partners. No spam and no link farms.
What you get: enough authority to pass bigger competitors with older websites.
07 · AI answers
When someone asks ChatGPT or Google’s AI who to hire in San Diego, it names businesses it can check. We give it clear facts about you, answers to the questions your customers ask, and mentions on the sites it reads.
What you get: your name in the answer, the way Angkorscape is in Seattle.
08 · Proof
Every keyword we work on, where it stood the day we started and where it stands now. Search any of it on Google yourself. No vanity charts.
What you get: proof the work is paying off, measured against our two guarantees.
Want to see which of the eight is holding you back? We’ll show you on the call.
One county. A dozen different maps.
San Diego County runs from Oceanside down to the border at San Ysidro and inland to Escondido and El Cajon, with the 5, the 15, the 8 and the 805 cutting through it. Google Maps ranks businesses partly by how close they are to the person searching, so the top three in Pacific Beach is not the top three in Kearny Mesa. We check your rankings from every part of the county you serve, then build the pages and listings to win each one.
We put our money where our rankings are.
Guarantee 01
20days
If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period.
What we measure: your traffic, what that traffic is worth, how much authority your site and its pages carry, and how many other sites link to you, against the day we start.
Guarantee 02
60days
If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are.
What counts: at least one high-value search for your business on page one of Google.
No long-term contracts. Results keep you here. Paperwork doesn't.
Same searches. Different deal.
Awkward Media
The usual agency deal
First results
Visible improvement in 20 days, or $200 back on top of that period’s payment
“Give it 3 to 6 months”
Page one
Qualifying keywords on page one in 60 days, or we work free until they are
No date in writing
Contract
Month to month
6 to 12 months
Proof
Client names and rankings you can search on Google yourself
Percentages with no names
AI answers
Included in every plan: Google’s AI answers and ChatGPT
An add-on, or missing
Who it’s for: San Diego businesses already doing $20,000 a month or more. Ranking brings in leads, and you need enough trade behind you to turn them into work.
Why we cap it: we take on 15 new clients a month, so we can keep the ranking promises we make to the clients we already have.
Your next step
A free 30-minute strategy call on Google Meet. We search your service in San Diego, live, and show you who holds page one and the top three spots on Google Maps, why, and what it takes to pass them.
Bring with you
We search your market live
The way your customers do, in the towns you serve.
We show who's above you, and why
On Google, on Maps and in the AI answers.
You leave with a road map
Yours to keep. If we can help, we'll invite you to work with us.
For established businesses doing at least $20,000 a month.
FAQ
What San Diego business owners ask us before they hire an SEO company.
Book my free strategy callOur plans for Google Maps and the main Google results (local and organic SEO) run $1,497 to $5,000 a month, and $5,000+ a month when you have several websites. Every plan is month to month and includes AI SEO. Where you land depends on your service and how strong the businesses above you are in San Diego. You get your exact number on the free strategy call.
You should see the first improvements within 20 days. If you don’t see visible improvement in your key metrics within the first 20 days, we refund $200 on top of returning your payment for that period. If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are.
Eight jobs, all done for you: we set up and run your Google Business Profile, grow your Google reviews, fix your local listings, fix your website so Google can read it, build a page for each service and area you serve, earn mentions on trusted websites, get you into AI answers, and show you every ranking each month so you can check it on Google yourself.
Yes. In Newport Beach, Dr. Sanjay Grover’s plastic surgery practice moved from #17 to #1 on Google Maps for “best plastic surgery near me” in 20 days, with seven of eight target searches in the top three. In Sacramento, Go Pro Plumbing, Heating & Air is the first business Google Maps lists for “HVAC contractor”, right under the ad.
We choose the categories that match what your customers search, list every service, add real photos and post regular updates, and keep new reviews coming in with a reply to each one. Then we make sure your name, address and phone number match on every directory Google checks, so it trusts your San Diego location.
Yes. Google Maps favours businesses close to the person searching, so a business in Chula Vista, Kearny Mesa or Carlsbad wins its own part of the county first. We check your rankings from each neighbourhood you serve, build a page for each one and point your listings and mentions at them, so you rank where your customers actually are.
Yes. Each city gets its own pages and its own search targets, and if you have a second location it gets its own Google Business Profile. That is how Candace and Basil won two cities at once: their Mississauga store went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps while their Toronto store went from #18 to #2.
Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from San Diego news and community sites, business associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms and nothing that could get your website penalized.
The one that puts dates in writing and shows you rankings you can search yourself. Ask every agency three things: what moves in 20 days, what is on page one in 60, and what happens if it isn’t. Our guarantees answer all three, and we’re rated 4.8 on Google from 197 reviews.
Call our San Diego line on +1 619 558 3888, 9am to 5pm Eastern (6am to 2pm Pacific), or book a free strategy call. We work with businesses right across San Diego County and Southern California, and every strategy call runs on Google Meet, so you never need to drive anywhere.
Local SEO gets you onto the map and into the three businesses listed under it when someone nearby searches. Regular SEO gets your website into the main Google results below. Most San Diego clients run both, because the same work feeds the two.
AI SEO is included in every plan, and it works to get your business named when San Diego customers ask Google’s AI or ChatGPT who to hire. Angkorscape is #1 on Google for “luxury landscape design” and named in Google’s AI answers for Seattle.
Every keyword we work on, where it stood the day we started and where it stands now, plus what we did that month and what comes next. Every ranking is one you can search on Google yourself, measured against our 20-day and 60-day guarantees.
No. Every plan is month to month. Results keep you here, not paperwork.
Established businesses already doing $20,000 a month or more: clinics and cosmetic surgeons, dentists and orthodontists, law firms, home services and HVAC, retailers and ecommerce brands. We take on 15 new clients a month, so we can keep the ranking promises we make to the clients we already have.
