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Most small businesses get sold "SEO" as a subscription to hope — a monthly report with numbers that don't move. I treat it as a structural problem: what the site actually says, what Google can see, and what a local customer needs to find before they call. AO Design Studio, an architecture practice, is the live proof — search performance built in from the first wireframe, not bolted on after launch.
Your website looks fine and gets almost no calls from it. You rank for your business name and nothing else — the searches your actual customers type ("[service] near me", your suburb, your category) show competitors, directories, or nothing you recognise. A previous agency "did SEO" for a few months and nothing measurably changed. You're relying on referrals and word of mouth because the website has never actually brought in a stranger.
I start with an audit most agencies skip: what's actually broken structurally — page titles, site speed, missing schema, thin or duplicated content — before touching a word of copy. Fixing the foundation first is why the AO Design Studio engagement treated SEO as a design decision from the first wireframe, not a retrofit.
Then content and on-page work targeted at searches with real local intent, not just national terms too competitive for a small site to win. Technical fixes get shipped directly rather than handed over as a to-do list.
Where it matters, I'll guide you through the parts I can't do for you — setting up or fixing a Google Business Profile, getting the first genuine reviews in — because for local search, that often moves the needle faster than anything on the page.
An initial audit (one to two weeks) sets the priorities. Most clients move to an ongoing monthly retainer after that — SEO compounds and erodes, so a one-off project doesn't hold a ranking against competitors who keep publishing.
How long until I see results?
Meaningful movement usually takes a few months, not weeks — anyone promising faster is either lucky or lying. The audit sets a realistic timeline once I've seen your specific market.
Do you handle Google Ads too?
No — this is organic search only. I can point you to the right kind of help for paid if you need it alongside this.
What if I already have a website I like?
Good — most clients keep their existing site. I audit what's there and fix what's actually wrong before proposing you rebuild anything.