Your Customers Are Searching. Are They Finding You?

Technical improvements like site speed can show results within 2 to 4 weeks. Ranking improvements for competitive keywords typically take 3 to 6 months as Google needs time to crawl, index, and evaluate your changes. Local SEO for Vancouver searches often moves faster, within 4 to 8 weeks, especially with Google Business Profile and citation work. SEO is a long-term investment but the results compound over time and do not disappear when you stop paying for ads.

Technical SEO is the foundation. It makes sure Google can properly crawl, index, and understand your site — site speed, mobile responsiveness, schema markup, sitemaps, and broken links. Without it, even great content will not rank. Content SEO is what is on your pages — keywords, internal linking, and answering what your customers are actually searching for. I focus on technical SEO because most Vancouver businesses already have decent content but their sites are slow, not mobile-friendly, or missing critical technical elements. Fix the foundation first.

It depends on your goals and competition. For some businesses a one-time technical overhaul is enough to hold rankings with minimal ongoing work. For competitive industries, ongoing optimization makes sense. I offer both: a one-time technical audit and implementation, or ongoing monthly work for businesses serious about search. Most Vancouver businesses get the best return from an initial technical overhaul followed by quarterly check-ins rather than expensive monthly retainers.