S-02  ·  Search Engine Optimization

Rankings you earn. Traffic you keep.

Technical audits, on-page optimization, local SEO, and content strategy for businesses across Southern California. We optimize the sites we build and the ones we did not, working in Semrush, Moz, and Google Search Console every day.

Service
Search Engine Optimization
Sheet
S-02
Area
Southern California
Studio
DV Buildworks, Los Angeles

01/The work

Four fronts, one plan
A

Technical SEO

Crawlability, indexing, site architecture, canonical tags, redirects, XML sitemaps, robots directives, Core Web Vitals, and mobile usability. This is where most sites are quietly losing traffic, and it is usually the fastest thing to fix.

B

On-page & structured data

Titles, meta descriptions, heading structure, internal linking, image alt text, and JSON-LD schema for organizations, services, FAQs, and locations. Structured data is how you become eligible for rich results instead of hoping for them.

C

Local SEO

Google Business Profile optimization, consistent name, address, and phone data across directories, location pages, local schema, and review strategy. For a business that sells within a service area, this is usually the highest-return SEO work available.

D

Content & keyword strategy

Keyword research against real search demand, competitor gap analysis, a page map that gives each topic one owning URL, and briefs your team or ours can write from. One page chasing nine topics is how sites end up ranking for none of them.

02/Deliverables

What lands on your desk

  • A technical audit with every issue ranked by impact, not by count
  • A prioritized fix list separating what we do from what your team does
  • Keyword and competitor research tied to terms that actually convert
  • A page map assigning one owning URL per topic, ending cannibalization
  • On-page rewrites: titles, meta, headings, and internal links
  • Schema markup implemented and validated, not just recommended
  • Google Business Profile and citation cleanup for local search
  • Search Console setup, sitemap submission, and index monitoring
  • Redirect mapping for any migration or redesign
  • Monthly reporting on impressions, clicks, positions, and conversions
SemrushMozSearch ConsoleGA4 Screaming FrogLooker StudioSchema.org Core Web VitalsGoogle Business Profile

03/How we work

No black boxes

SEO goes wrong in two familiar ways. Either it becomes a monthly retainer with no visible output, or it becomes a 200-page audit nobody implements. We avoid both by working from a short, ranked list and reporting against the same numbers you can see in your own Search Console.

We also build websites, which changes what SEO can be. When a fix requires touching a template, changing a URL structure, or adding schema to a CMS, we do it rather than filing a ticket with whoever built the site. That closes the gap where most SEO recommendations go to die.

Local matters here. A search for a service plus a neighborhood behaves differently across Southern California, and the competitive set in Los Angeles is not the one in Riverside or Ventura. We work from your actual service area, not a generic national keyword list.

Q/FAQ

Search engine optimization
How long does SEO take to show results?

Technical fixes can move things in weeks: indexing problems, broken redirects, and page speed often show up quickly because you are removing an obstacle rather than building authority. Competitive rankings take longer, usually three to six months of consistent work. Anyone promising page one in thirty days is either targeting terms nobody searches or planning something that will cost you a penalty later.

Do you guarantee rankings?

No, and no honest agency does. Google's ranking systems are not ours to control, and a guarantee only tells you the terms were chosen to be easy. What we do commit to is a documented technical baseline, a prioritized fix list, and reporting that shows movement in impressions, clicks, and rankings for terms tied to your revenue.

What is local SEO and do we need it?

Local SEO is the work that gets you into map results and location-qualified searches. It covers your Google Business Profile, consistent name, address, and phone data across directories, location pages, local schema markup, and reviews. If customers find you by searching a service plus a city, it is usually the highest-return SEO work available to you.

Can you fix SEO on a site you did not build?

Yes, and most of our SEO work is on sites built by someone else. We audit what exists, separate what is genuinely broken from what is merely unfashionable, and give you a prioritized list. When a platform limitation makes a fix impossible, we say so rather than billing hours against it.

Will a website redesign hurt our rankings?

It can, and it frequently does, because redirects get skipped. Every URL on the old site needs to map to a destination on the new one, and that map has to be built before launch and verified afterward. We handle redesigns and SEO together for exactly this reason: the two decisions are not separable.

How does SEO fit with paid search?

They answer different questions. Paid search buys you immediate presence and clean data about which terms convert. SEO turns the winners into positions you do not pay per click for. Running them together means the ad data informs the content plan, which is faster than guessing at either one alone.

04/Next

What pairs with SEO

C/ Contact

Not showing up
in search?

Send us your domain and the terms you want to win. We will tell you what is standing in the way before you commit to anything.

Email the crew