SEO company in San Francisco, ranking businesses across the city and the Bay Area
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, with our prices published.
30 minutes on Google Meet. For businesses doing $20k a month or more.
4.8
on Google, from 199 reviews
4.6
on Trustpilot, from 55 reviews
Top 5%
SEO agencies in the world, by Mayple
17 yrs
ranking businesses in the US and Canada
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828,000 people. 47 square miles. Three spots on the map.
The Census Bureau counts 827,526 people in San Francisco on 46.7 square miles of land, about 17,700 to the square mile. 63% of households rent, 34% of residents were born outside the US, and the median household earns $139,801 a year. From the Marina and Pacific Heights to the Mission, the Sunset and Bayview, it is a city of tight, distinct neighborhoods. When a pipe bursts in a 1920s flat, a lease goes wrong or a move comes up on two weeks’ notice, people pick up a phone and search, and Google answers with three businesses on the map and ten links below it. If you aren’t in those spots, the job goes to someone who is.
Source: US Census Bureau 2024 American Community Survey via Census Reporter, for the City and County of San Francisco
Most people pick from the three businesses Google shows on the map. Fourth place still has a listing, but far fewer people ever see it.
Google favors businesses close to the searcher. Ranking in the Marina doesn’t mean you show up in the Mission, the Outer Sunset or Bayview.
Improvements in 20 days. Page one in 60 days, or we work free. And our prices are on the website.
Our guarantees
Page one in 60 days, or we work free.
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Flowers in February. Taxes in April. Bed bugs in August. Every season, a new rush.
We pulled twelve months of Google search volume for San Francisco. Florist goes from 1,900 searches a month to 5,400 in February and March. Wedding venue climbs from 1,600 in December to 4,400 in March and April. Tax preparer runs from 70 in November to 1,300 in April, then drops to 110 in May. Divorce lawyer goes from 480 to 1,900 in May, solar from 170 to 720 in May and August, and bed bugs from 1,900 in winter to 4,400 in August. Whatever the season, the businesses already in the top three when demand spikes are the ones that take the work.
searches a month
1,900 to 5,400
searches a month
1,600 to 4,400
searches a month
70 to 1,300
searches a month
480 to 1,900
searches a month
170 to 720
searches a month
1,900 to 4,400
Each chart runs January to December and is scaled to its own busiest month, shown in green. Source: Google Ads search volume for San Francisco, last twelve months, pulled October 2026.
Tax preparer goes from 210 searches in January to 1,000 in March and 1,300 in April, then falls to 110 in May. CPA runs 880 to 1,600 a month at around $22 a click, and bookkeeping around $33 a click. Rankings take longer than one tax season to build, so our 60-day page-one guarantee gives you a date to plan around: start in the fall, be in the top three by February.
Florist peaks at 5,400 searches in February and March, and wedding venue at 4,400 in March and April, when the year’s events get booked. A catering click costs around $19 on Google Ads in San Francisco. Hair salon and nail salon each average 8,100 searches a month, and pilates 5,400.
On Google Ads in San Francisco, a click costs around $194 for personal injury attorney, $146 for DUI lawyer, $139 for divorce lawyer, $86 for emergency plumber, $60 for wrongful termination lawyer and $39 each for moving company, therapist and garage door repair. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a per-click bill.
Loma Prieta, 5:04 p.m., October 17, 1989.
Magnitude 6.9. Almost 5,000 buildings to fix.
At 5:04 in the afternoon on October 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the Santa Cruz Mountains, about 60 miles southeast of San Francisco. It killed 63 people, injured 3,757 and caused about $6 billion in property damage. In San Francisco, part of the Bay Bridge collapsed and liquefaction badly damaged buildings in the Marina District. The buildings that fared worst were the city’s classic wood-frame apartments with open garages on the ground floor, known as soft-story buildings. In 2013 the city made strengthening them mandatory: almost 5,000 buildings, home to about 111,000 people. Structural engineers, contractors, foundation crews and remodelers did that work. Today an owner who needs that kind of work does what everyone does: searches, and calls one of the first names Google shows. Seismic retrofit averages 260 searches a month in San Francisco at around $16 a click on Google Ads, a structural engineer click costs around $26 and a bathroom remodel click around $36. Being one of those first names is the job.
Sources: US Geological Survey and San Francisco Public Press. Search figures: Google Ads, San Francisco.
Get found by the people searching235,000 households rent. Every lease is a search.
Of San Francisco’s 371,841 households, 235,275 rent their home, 63% of the city, according to the Census Bureau’s 2024 American Community Survey. Every move in and move out sends people to Google: for movers, storage, cleaners, locksmiths and handymen, and on the other side of the lease for property managers and lawyers. In San Francisco, moving company averages 1,000 searches a month at around $39 a click, storage units runs 590 to 1,900 at around $18, property management averages 590 at around $18, eviction lawyer runs 90 to 320 and landlord attorney costs around $19 a click.
Of San Francisco households
63%
rent their home: 235,275 households, against 136,566 that own.
A move in San Francisco is booked in days, not months. Movers, cleaners, storage and locksmiths win it by being in the top three on Google Maps when the search happens, with reviews that answer the question before the call: how soon, how much, and do they know these stairs.
Renters search for tenant lawyers and owners search for landlord attorneys and property managers. They are different searches with different winners, so each side gets its own pages, its own keywords and its own spot on the map.
34% of San Franciscans were born outside the US and many more arrive from other states. People new to a neighborhood can’t ask a neighbor who to call yet, so Google Maps, the reviews on it and Google’s AI answers decide who gets the job.
Source: US Census Bureau 2024 American Community Survey, 1-year, housing tenure and place of birth for San Francisco, via Census Reporter. Search figures: Google Ads data for San Francisco over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026.
Our results
Just a few of the businesses we rank on Google, on Google Maps and in AI answers, from a moving company in Asheville to stores that sell across the country. Every card is a crop of the real screen, competitors and all. Look at the search, then look at who’s first.
How to read a card: the quoted words are the exact search a customer typed. “Before” is where the business ranked when we started, from our rank tracking. “Now” is the position in the screenshot.
Google search
The list of websites under the map. Many came from outside the top 100, where nobody sees them.
Swipe sideways for more →
Google search
for “Pediatric Chiropractor”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Trenton
for “Swimming Pool Enclosure in Trenton”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Margate City
for “Skin tightening treatment Margate City”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Fort Myers
for “Laser Tattoo Removal”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Hillsboro
for “fence builder hillsboro”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Ecommerce
for “UNC hat”
Before
Page 5
Now
#3
A small store above New Era and Amazon for the hat UNC fans wear. Read the case study.
Google search · Calgary
for “Same Day Emergency Dentist in NE Calgary”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Toronto
for “Mortgage north york”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Ontario
for “Newmarket mortgage broker”
Now
#3
Result number 3 for the exact search, shown in the screenshot.
Google search · Calgary
for “sedation dentist in calgary”
Before
#4
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Calgary
for “NE Calgary Dental Services”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#2
Result number 2 for the exact search, shown in the screenshot.
Google search · Calgary
for “sedation dentists calgary”
Before
#5
Now
#2
Result number 2 for the exact search, shown in the screenshot.
Google search · Calgary
for “restorative dentistry”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#4
Result number 4 for the exact search, shown in the screenshot.
Google search · Calgary
for “Orthodontics in NE Calgary”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#7
Result number 7 for the exact search, shown in the screenshot.
Google search · Toronto
for “Scarborough mortgage broker”
Now
#4
Result number 4 for the exact search, shown in the screenshot.
Google search · Edmonton
for “Executive Protection Dogs Edmonton”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Margate City
for “Microneedling Margate City”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Margate City
for “Medical weight loss Margate City”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “Fuel tank on trailer”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “Drone Cinematography for Commercials”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “Best Pool Enclosures”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “vacuum cleaners for sale”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “Aluma Sport 615”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Bronx
for “Bronx Drone Services”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result, right under the map listings.
Google search
for “Retractable Pool Dome”
Before
#28
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “Portable Fuel Tank Trailer”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “Aerial Video Production”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · Las Vegas
for “Las Vegas Car Wrap”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “Gas Trailer”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “cavachon puppies for sale”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search
for “Gasoline Trailer”
Now
#1
The first unpaid result for the exact search.
Google search · King of Prussia
for “Semaglutide Treatment in King of Prussia”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#2
Number 2 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Drone Video Production”
Now
#2
Number 2 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Pool Enclosure Designs”
Before
#100
Now
#2
Number 2 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · King of Prussia
for “non-surgical facelift Prussia”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#2
Number 2 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · Arizona
for “Pool Enclosures Arizona”
Now
#3
Number 3 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · King of Prussia
for “Lip fillers King of Prussia”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#3
Number 3 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “jura coffee maker”
Now
#3
Number 3 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Electric Fence Wire Winder”
Now
#3
Number 3 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Live Broadcast Drone Services”
Now
#3
Number 3 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Pto Wire Winder”
Now
#3
Number 3 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · New York
for “Drone Companies NYC”
Now
#3
Number 3 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Small Aluminum Pontoon Boats”
Now
#3
Number 3 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Retractable Pool Enclosure Attached to House”
Before
#16
Now
#4
Number 4 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Mini Pontoon Boats for Sale”
Now
#4
Number 4 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · New York
for “NYC Drone Services”
Now
#4
Number 4 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · Moncton
for “solar panel installation moncton”
Now
#2
Number 2 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · Mississauga
for “solar panels mississauga”
Now
#2
Number 2 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · Moncton
for “Solar panels moncton”
Now
#2
Number 2 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Residential Solar Panel Installation”
Now
#2
Number 2 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search
for “Residential solar companies”
Now
#2
Number 2 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · Alexandria, Virginia
for “alexandria fence builder”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#8
Number 8 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google search · Alexandria, Virginia
for “fence company alexandria va”
Before
Not in top 100
Now
#9
Number 9 of the unpaid results, on page one.
Google Maps
The box of three businesses with a map, and the full list people see when they tap it. HVAC, fencing, law, septic, furniture and more.
Swipe sideways for more →
Google Maps
for “luxury watch buyers”
Before
Not shown
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps · Asheville, North Carolina
for “local movers”
Every point
1st or 2nd
Each green dot is one spot on the map where the search was run. On the August 2023 grid, every dot shows them first or second.
Google Maps
for “cedar fencing company”
Before
Not shown
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “vinyl fence installation Fulton”
Before
Not shown
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “car accident attorneys near me”
Before
#10
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “motorcycle accident attorney Dedham”
Before
#10
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “personal injury lawyer Pikesville”
Before
#13
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “septic cleaning near me”
Before
#12
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “AC repair”
Before
#13
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “heating services”
Before
#11
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “black aluminum fence”
Before
Not shown
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “cedar fence installation Fulton”
Before
Not shown
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “aluminum fence installation Fulton”
Before
Not shown
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “cedar fence installation”
Before
#4
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “car accidents lawyer”
Before
#5
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “slip and fall lawyers near me”
Before
#9
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “HVAC repair”
Before
#16
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “HVAC installation”
Before
#14
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “mini split installation near me”
Before
#14
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “air conditioner maintenance near me”
Before
#11
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “air conditioning repair services”
Before
#10
Now
#3
Number 3 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “AC installation”
Before
#14
Now
#3
Number 3 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “aluminum fence installation Cleveland”
Before
#16
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “cedar fence installation Cleveland”
Before
#15
Now
#3
Number 3 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “luxury furniture stores”
Before
#10
Now
#1
Top of the Maps list, below any ads.
Google Maps
for “luxury dining tables”
Before
#12
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps · Pikesville, Maryland
for “best accident attorney pikesville”
Before
#10
Now
#2
Number 2 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “septic tank and drain field installation”
Before
#10
Now
#3
Number 3 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “septic system”
Before
#15
Now
#3
Number 3 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps
for “septic companies near me”
Before
#14
Now
#4
Number 4 in the Maps list, competitors and all.
Google Maps · Pikesville, Maryland
for “accident law firm pikesville”
Now
#3
Number 3 in the Maps list, below one ad.
AI answers
The written answers at the top of Google and in ChatGPT. They name a few businesses. These are ours.
Swipe sideways for more →
Google AI Mode
for “fence company chantilly”
Now
Cited
The first source listed beside the AI Mode answer.
Google AI Overview
for “Bridge Loans for NonProfits”
Now
Cited
Linked as one of the sources beside Google’s written answer.
Google AI Overview · Mabton
for “Separation Lawyers in Mabton”
Now
Named
Named in the first line of Google’s written answer, 16 miles away in Yakima.
ChatGPT
for “Best carpet cleaning company in Michigan”
ChatGPT’s answer opens with one “Recommended Company”: Modernistic.
ChatGPT
for “divorce lawyer mabton wa”
First of the three firms ChatGPT lists, with its phone number.
Google AI Overview · Toronto
for “Mortgage Refinancing for Renovations Toronto”
Now
Cited
Linked as a source inside Google’s written answer.
Google AI Overview
for “Luxury Landscape Designers”
Now
Cited
Named in Google’s written answer and linked as a source beside it.
Claude
for “divorce lawyers kennewick”
Now
Listed
Listed by name, with rating and phone number, in Claude’s answer.
ChatGPT
for “family lawyers mabton”
Now
Listed
First firm in ChatGPT’s list, with its phone number.
ChatGPT
for “mabton family attorney”
Now
Listed
First firm in ChatGPT’s list, with its phone number.
ChatGPT
for “kennewick family attorney”
Now
Listed
Named in ChatGPT’s list of five family law attorneys.
More stories, with the full numbers: our SEO case studies, including Covers in Play, The Game Caps, Go Pro Plumbing, Heating and Air and Angkorscape. Or read what our clients say.
Your ranking, from the Marina to the Excelsior.
Google Maps doesn’t show everyone the same results. Someone searching in the Marina sees a different top three from someone in the Mission, and someone in the Outer Sunset sees another. In a city this dense, the map can change from one hill to the next. So we don’t check your ranking from one spot. We run your searches from a grid of points across every neighborhood and city you serve, and you get that map back every month: green where you’re in the top three, red where you aren’t yet. Then we go after the red.
A grid, not a guess
Your real position from dozens of points across San Francisco.
Fixes aimed at the gaps
Neighborhood and city pages, listings and links for the places you don’t win yet.
Check it yourself
Every search we report, you can type into Google.
How Google picks the top three
Google says its local results are based mainly on relevance, distance and prominence. Here is what each one means for a San Francisco business, and what we do about it.
San Francisco
Ring one: inside the city
Ring two: around the bay
Alameda County
Oakland, Berkeley
San Mateo County
Daly City, South San Francisco, San Mateo, Burlingame, Redwood City
Marin County
Sausalito, San Rafael
Contra Costa County
Walnut Creek
How well your listing and website match the search. A business whose profile and pages name each service it offers matches more searches than one that names only its trade.
How far your business is from the person searching, or from the town they name. You can’t move your address, so we win close to home first and then reach further out with town pages and local mentions.
How well known your business is. Google builds this from many signals: links from other sites, your details on directories, your website, your reviews, and how people engage with your business. Reviews are one visible, countable part of it, not the whole picture.
The business closest to one customer is far from the next, so one listing rarely covers every place around San Francisco on its own. That’s why we plan it place by place. Want the deeper version? Read how we expand your Maps radius, our guide to getting your Google Business Profile right, or how local SEO brings in the normal results and AI answers too.
Day 1 to page one.
Day 1
We search your services across the neighborhoods and cities you serve, map who holds the top three and page one, and fix what’s broken on your Google Business Profile and website. We agree your qualifying keywords in writing.
Day 20
Listings cleaned up, service and city pages live, reviews coming in. 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.
Day 60
If your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are. Links and mentions from San Francisco websites are building behind the scenes.
Day 61 and on
We push for the top three on the map, add searches, neighborhoods and cities, work to get you named in AI answers, and report every ranking each month so you can check it yourself.
Eight jobs. We do all of them.
Every plan, every month. Every job aims at one thing: your phone ringing from Google Maps, the normal Google results and AI answers, wherever San Francisco searches.
Book my free strategy callWe pick the right categories, 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 San Francisco searches, neighborhood by neighborhood. More on Google Business Profile optimization.
We set up an easy way for happy customers to leave a review and reply to every one. Reviews are one of the signals Google weighs, and they’re what people read before they pick up the phone. More on local SEO.
Your name, address and phone number, matching on every directory Google checks, from US business directories to the big data providers that feed maps, apps and voice assistants. More on Maps radius expansion.
Faster pages, a site that works on every phone, and behind-the-scenes labels that tell Google what each page is about, so nothing on the technical side holds your rankings back. More on technical SEO.
A real page for each service, neighborhood and city you serve, from Pacific Heights to Bayview, written for the people searching there. No city-name swaps. More on on-page SEO.
Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for. We earn mentions from San Francisco news, neighborhood and community sites, associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms. More on link building.
We work to get your business named when people ask Google’s AI or ChatGPT who to hire in San Francisco. Included in every plan, never an add-on. More on AI SEO.
Every ranking, every month, with the searches listed and the ranking grid attached, so you can check any of it on Google yourself. More on SEO services.
Lawyers, retrofits, movers. The searches San Francisco runs on.
Personal injury attorney: around $194 a click
A personal injury attorney click costs around $194 on Google Ads in San Francisco, a DUI lawyer click around $146, divorce lawyer around $139 and wrongful termination around $60. Immigration lawyer runs 320 to 2,900 searches a month and employment lawyer 320 to 1,900. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days, and Florida Probate Law Group is #1 statewide.
How we plan it: law firm SEO.
Plumber: about 3,600 searches a month
Plumber averages 3,600 searches a month in San Francisco and electrician 3,600. An emergency plumber click costs around $86 on Google Ads, plumber near me around $39 and locksmith around $21. Water heater holds at 480 to 720 searches every month of the year. Non-Stop Air Conditioning and Heating has all 8 of its tracked searches in the Google Maps top three.
How we plan it: plumbing SEO and SEO for electricians.
Seismic retrofit: around $16 a click
Seismic retrofit averages 260 searches a month and foundation repair 140, at around $16 and $18 a click. A structural engineer click costs around $26, bathroom remodel around $36, kitchen remodel around $24 and roof repair around $27, and general contractor averages 590 searches a month. R.A. Woodall Roofing is #1 for “roofing contractor Williamsburg”.
How we plan it: construction SEO.
Dentist near me: 6,600 to 9,900 a month
Dentist near me runs 6,600 to 9,900 searches a month in San Francisco. Dermatologist averages 2,400, invisalign 1,900 and therapist 1,600, at around $39 a click. A cosmetic dentist click costs around $28 and botox around $18. Sanjay Grover MD went from #17 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days.
How we plan it: dental SEO and therapist SEO.
Property management: around $18 a click
In a city where 63% of households rent, property management averages 590 searches a month, eviction lawyer runs 90 to 320 and landlord attorney costs around $19 a click. Rodent control costs around $39 a click and pest control around $31, and bed bugs climbs to 4,400 searches in August.
How we plan it: pest control SEO.
Moving company: around $39 a click
Moving company averages 1,000 searches a month in San Francisco at around $39 a click, and movers another 720 at around $21. Storage units runs 590 to 1,900 at around $18, cleaning service averages 720 and garage door repair costs around $39 a click.
How we plan it: moving company SEO and self-storage SEO.
Hair salon: 6,600 to 12,100 a month
Hair salon runs 6,600 to 12,100 searches a month and nail salon 6,600 to 14,800. Pilates averages 5,400, acupuncture 1,900, florist peaks at 5,400 in February and wedding venue at 4,400 in spring. A catering click costs around $19.
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Search figures: Google Ads data for San Francisco over the last twelve months, pulled October 2026. Ranges run from the quietest month to the busiest; single figures are monthly averages.
All 47 square miles. And across the Bay.
Most agencies write one “San Francisco” page and hope it covers 828,000 people. It doesn’t. Google shows a different top three in the Marina than in the Mission, and a different one again in the Outer Sunset or Bayview. Hills, fog and a few blocks of distance split the city into dozens of small markets. So we plan area by area: the neighborhoods you already win, the ones close enough to take next, and the ones worth a page of their own.
Offices, towers and the old port, where law firms, clinics, restaurants and new condos share the map.
From the bay up the hills: old flats, big houses and some of the busiest shopping streets in the city.
The sunny middle of the city, packed with Victorians, small shops and corner businesses.
The fog belt out to Ocean Beach, block after block of homes and families.
Bayview to the county line, with the city’s industrial land and some of its fastest-changing streets.
The Golden Gate: 4,200 feet of span. Page one: 60 days, in writing.
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. Better odds.
Awkward Media
The usual agency deal
First results
Improvements in 20 days. Both promises are set out in full in our SEO guarantees.
“Give it 6 to 8 months”
Page one
Page one in 60 days, or we work free.
No date in writing
Price
Google Maps from $1,497+ a month. Google rankings from $2,697+.
“Call us for a quote”
Contract
Month to month
6 to 12 months
Proof
Named clients, real rankings and the screenshots to prove them
“A local HVAC company”, no name, no ranking
Local pages
A page for each neighborhood and city you serve, the Marina to Oakland
One “San Francisco” page for 828,000 people
Rank tracking
A ranking grid across every part of the city you serve, every month
One position, checked from one spot
AI answers
Included in every plan: Google’s AI answers and ChatGPT
An add-on, or missing
Who it’s for: San Francisco businesses doing $20,000 a month or more, with the crew to take on more work.
Why we cap it: Very limited spots left for the month of October. We put a cap on clients we can take in to keep our promises.
Your next step
A free 30-minute strategy call on Google Meet. We search your service in San Francisco, live, neighborhood by neighborhood, 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 Francisco business owners ask us before they hire an SEO company.
Book my free strategy callGoogle Maps starts at $1,497 a month. Google rankings start at $2,697 a month. Both go up for multiple locations, multiple websites and complexity. Every plan is month to month and includes AI SEO. Where you land depends on your service, how many neighborhoods and Bay Area cities you want to win and how strong the businesses above you are. You get your exact number on the free strategy call, and the prices are published on our website before you ever talk to us.
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.
Some searches are crowded and others are wide open, and the only way to know is to look. Competition is set search by search and neighborhood by neighborhood, not for the whole city. “Plumber san francisco” and “plumber noe valley” are different fights with different winners. On the call we search yours live, show you who holds each spot and agree the qualifying keywords our 60-day guarantee covers, in writing.
Yes, if you’re already doing $20,000 a month or more and want more of the same work. Ads charge you for every click, and in San Francisco a personal injury attorney click costs around $194, a divorce lawyer click around $139 and an emergency plumber click around $86. A page-one ranking keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click, and our guarantees put dates on it, set out in full in our SEO guarantees.
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, neighborhood and city 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.
Because most don’t put a date on anything. We do it in writing: 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, and if your qualifying keywords aren’t on the first page of Google within 60 days, we keep working for free until they are. Our prices are published, every plan is month to month, and every ranking we report is one you can search yourself.
No. Google ranks your business, its listing, its reviews and its website, not your agency’s address. We check your rankings from San Francisco itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, so you see what your customers see. Our clients rank #1 in cities we have never had an office in: Angkorscape for “luxury landscape design” in Seattle, Sanjay Grover MD on Google Maps in Newport Beach, and Ranallo on Google Maps in Massachusetts. What matters is results you can search yourself, with dates in writing.
Yes. Sanjay Grover MD in Newport Beach went 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. On the West Coast, Angkorscape is #1 for “luxury landscape design” in Seattle and named in Google’s AI answers. Maurice and Sons went from 18 of 19 searches outside the top 100 to 15 in the top three in 21 days. On the call, we show you results in your own industry.
Yes, one step at a time. Google Maps favors businesses close to the person searching, so you win the neighborhoods around your address first. Then we build a page for each neighborhood you serve, check your ranking from a grid of points across them, and point your listings and mentions at the areas where you aren’t in the top three yet. A second location gets its own Google Business Profile, which 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, for the searches where Google looks past distance. On the map, people searching in the Marina mostly see businesses near the Marina, so we win your own area first and then build pages, links and mentions aimed at the areas you want next. In the main Google results below the map, where location counts for less, a strong page can rank across the whole city.
Yes. Oakland, Berkeley, Daly City, South San Francisco, San Mateo, Redwood City and the Marin towns are their own markets to Google. Each one you serve gets its own page and search targets, your listings carry every city you cover, and we track your ranking in every one of them each month.
Yes. After Loma Prieta, San Francisco made retrofits mandatory for almost 5,000 soft-story buildings, home to about 111,000 people, and that work still sends owners to Google. Seismic retrofit averages 260 searches a month at around $16 a click, a structural engineer click costs around $26 and a bathroom remodel click around $36. We build a page for each service and each neighborhood you cover, so an owner in the Richmond and a property manager in the Mission both find you.
Yes. Law has the most expensive clicks we measured here: around $194 for personal injury attorney, $146 for DUI lawyer, $139 for divorce lawyer and $60 for wrongful termination lawyer on Google Ads in San Francisco. Immigration lawyer runs 320 to 2,900 searches a month and employment lawyer 320 to 1,900. Ranallo went from #10 to #1 on Google Maps for “car accident attorneys near me” in 20 days, and Florida Probate Law Group is #1 for “Florida probate lawyer” statewide.
Yes, on both sides of the lease. 63% of San Francisco households rent, so the city runs on these searches: property management averages 590 a month at around $18 a click, eviction lawyer runs 90 to 320, tenant lawyer 50 to 140 and landlord attorney costs around $19 a click. Each side gets its own pages and its own keywords, because renters and owners search for different things.
Yes. Moving company averages 1,000 searches a month in San Francisco at around $39 a click, storage units runs 590 to 1,900 and cleaning service averages 720. In a city where most people rent, moves come up fast, and the companies in the Google Maps top three with the best reviews take most of them.
Yes. Plumber averages 3,600 searches a month in San Francisco and electrician 3,600, an emergency plumber click costs around $86 on Google Ads and a locksmith click around $21. Non-Stop Air Conditioning and Heating in Cape Coral has all 8 of its tracked searches in the Google Maps top three, and we’d run the same plan for a San Francisco trade.
Yes. Dentist near me runs 6,600 to 9,900 searches a month in San Francisco, dermatologist averages 2,400 and therapist 1,600 at around $39 a click. Clinics fight over the same few spots on the map in every neighborhood. Sanjay Grover MD went from #17 to #1 on Google Maps in 20 days, and Burloak Centre Dentistry is #1 for both emergency and cosmetic dental searches in Oakville.
Months before their season. Tax preparer goes from 70 searches in November to 1,300 in April, florist peaks at 5,400 in February and March, and wedding venue at 4,400 in March and April. Rankings take weeks to build, so the businesses that start in the fall are the ones in the top three when the rush comes.
Our guarantees and plans are built for businesses that serve customers in a place: the searches people make when they need a service near them, on Google Maps and in the main results. If your customers find you by searching for a local service, we’re a fit. If you sell software nationally, ask us on the call and we’ll tell you honestly whether our plans fit.
Ask every agency four things: what will move in 20 days, what will be on page one in 60, what happens if it isn’t, and which named clients you can search for yourself. Then ask for the price and how long the contract runs. We answer all of it in writing, with published prices, month-to-month plans and a 4.8 rating on Google from 199 reviews.
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. Reviews are one of the signals Google weighs. Then we make sure your name, address and phone number match on every directory Google checks, so it trusts your San Francisco location.
Yes. Plumbers, movers, cleaners, contractors, locksmiths and dog walkers can run their Google Business Profile as a service-area business, with the address hidden and the areas they cover listed. Google still uses your business location when it decides who to show, so we build pages and mentions for every area you serve to carry you further.
Yes. Google ranks the businesses other websites vouch for, so we earn mentions and links from San Francisco and Bay Area news, neighborhood and community sites, merchant associations, suppliers and partners. No spam, no link farms and nothing that could get your website penalized.
Ads put you at the top today and stop the day you stop paying, and some San Francisco clicks are very expensive: around $194 for a personal injury attorney and $86 for an emergency plumber. SEO takes weeks to build, then keeps bringing in leads without a bill for every click. Many San Francisco businesses run ads while SEO builds. Local SEO gets you onto the map, regular SEO gets your website into the results below it, and we can run either one or both.
AI SEO is included in every plan, and it works to get your business named when people ask Google’s AI or ChatGPT who to hire in San Francisco. EquityRich is cited in Google’s AI answers for “commercial mortgage Toronto”, and Angkorscape is 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, a ranking grid across the parts of San Francisco you serve, and 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.
Call our US line on +1 619 558 3888, 9am to 5pm Eastern, which is 6am to 2pm in San Francisco, or book a free strategy call. Every strategy call runs on Google Meet, and we check your rankings from San Francisco itself, neighborhood by neighborhood, so you see what your customers see.
Thirty minutes on Google Meet. We search your service in San Francisco live, in the neighborhoods you serve, and show you who holds page one and the top three spots on Google Maps, why they’re there and what it would take to pass them. You keep the plan either way. The call is for businesses doing $20,000 a month or more.
No. Every plan is month to month, and results keep you here, not paperwork. We work with established businesses already doing $20,000 a month or more. Very limited spots left for the month of October. We put a cap on clients we can take in to keep our promises.
Your trade, your city
Every trade searches differently and every city has its own top three. Pick your industry to see how we’d plan it in San Francisco, or see the other cities we rank businesses in.
All of them on our industries page.
Every city we cover is on our locations page. Working across the whole country? See our SEO agency for the USA.
