San Diego and North County
SEO agency San Diego businesses stay with because the numbers move, priced before we start. San Diego is not one market: biotech and research around Torrey Pines, defense and the Navy along the bay, tourism and hospitality on the coast, and home services spread from Chula Vista to Oceanside. Month one is $750 so you can judge the work before committing to anything else.
The questions that cost you money
Home services here run on inbound calls, and the call lands while your crew is on a roof in Encinitas. Our AI host answers every one, asks the qualifying questions, books the estimate and texts you the summary — in 13 languages.
La Jolla, Carlsbad, Chula Vista and Escondido are separate searches with separate competitors. One San Diego page competes for the whole county and wins none of it. We build for the areas you actually cover.
Most local sites list services and stop. We write the pages that answer what a buyer actually asks before they call — what it costs, how long it takes, what happens if it goes wrong.
The local question
Profile management, reviews and a page per area — $750 a month for three locations, $300 for a single profile and $100 for each extra location after three.
What we would actually do here
HVAC, plumbing, roofing, solar, pest and landscaping all live on the phone, and in San Diego that call often arrives while the crew is on site or stuck in traffic on the 5. The AI host answers every one, qualifies the job, books the estimate and sends you the details. It works evenings and weekends, which is when homeowners actually call.
See what it costsSan Diego buyers compare before they call. We write the service and area pages that answer the real questions — price ranges, timelines, what the work involves — in plain English rather than brochure filler. Content that answers gets cited by AI search; content that describes gets ignored.
See what it costsThe rest of what we sell
Nothing here is bundled to make the invoice look bigger. Pick the one costing you money.
Enquiries this month rather than next year.
See what it costsAuthority that holds its value.
See what it costsGet found by people already searching for what you sell.
See what it costsTurn the traffic you already have into enquiries.
See what it costsGet named in AI answers, not just ranked in links.
See what it costsOwn the map pack in your district, not just the city.
See what it costsThe San Diego market
Torrey Pines and La Jolla carry life sciences and research, with Illumina, the Salk Institute, Scripps Research and UC San Diego Health within a few miles of each other. The bay holds defense, the Navy at Naval Base San Diego, the contractors around them such as General Atomics and Solar Turbines, and Qualcomm's headquarters inland at Sorrento Mesa. Downtown, Little Italy and North Park are hospitality, food and professional services, and the health systems — Sharp HealthCare, Scripps and UC San Diego Health — are among the largest employers in the county. North County — Carlsbad, Encinitas, Oceanside — is its own market of trades, clinics and coastal retail, and the South Bay around Chula Vista and National City is another again, with cross-border trade alongside it.
What that means in practice is that a single San Diego page is competing with specialized pages in every one of those places and winning none of them. The buyers are not the same, the competitors are not the same, and the search terms are not the same.
We do not guess at any of it. The first month goes into your site, your competitors and your enquiry data, and the ongoing quote follows what that showed.
Where your customers are
La Jolla, Carlsbad, Chula Vista, Escondido and El Cajon are separate searches with separate competitors, and a Carlsbad homeowner is not shopping downtown. We build for the areas you actually cover.
How it runs
Tell us the district, the trade and what a customer is worth. We quote before any work starts.
$750, spent on the site and the evidence rather than on publishing volume.
At the end of month one we show you what we found and what the ongoing work costs. You decide.
Technical fixes, content and links. Reported every month, no minimum term.
What this normally costs
A full SEO retainer in the US is typically published at $1,500–$5,000 a month, with competitive and multi-location work at $5,000–$10,000 and enterprise programs from $10,000 up. Independent surveys put the average agency retainer at about $3,209 a month. Google Business Profile management alone runs $300–$600, and hourly consulting $100–$200.
Single-channel SEO from $1,500/month and the full program at $2,500/month. Month one is $750. Google Maps and profile management from $750 a month for three locations, $300 for a single profile and $100 for each extra location. Websites from $1,000. That is roughly what most people pay, minus ten percent.
We are fluent English speakers, and we work the way you do — WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or a plain phone call, whichever suits you. Most South African SEO and digital marketing specialists already work inside US agencies, so there is a fair chance you have been served by one without knowing it. We cut out the middle man: you pay for the work, not for the agency layer sitting on top of it.
Market figures are prices published by US agencies, gathered September 2026. They are ranges from public rate cards, not one company’s quote, and they move.
Straight answers
No proposal document and no discovery call to get a number. Ask directly and you will get a straight answer.
Ask about San DiegoRetainers start at $1,500 a month with month one at $750, so you can judge the work first. The full program is $2,500 a month. Local SEO and Google Business Profile management is $750 a month for three locations, $300 for a single profile and $100 for each extra location after three. Websites start at $1,000.
Yes. Carlsbad, Encinitas and Oceanside are separate markets with less competition than downtown, and often the easier win. We price by area rather than by one San Diego postcode.
Two things: local search so you show up in the areas you actually serve, and an AI host that answers every call, qualifies the job and books the estimate while your crew is on site.
If nobody can find you, SEO or local search. If they find you and leave, the website or the content. If you need jobs this month, Google Ads or the AI host. We will say which, including when the cheapest one is right.
There is no minimum term. You stop whenever you like and you keep the site, the content, the profiles and the accounts.
Get a price
One reply, with the package, the price and exactly what it covers. If we are not the right answer, we will say that too.
