SEO in Vancouver: rankings, calls and customers you can count
We help Vancouver businesses get found on Google, win the map pack and turn that traffic into booked work. Around 675,000 people live here, and the ones who need what you sell are searching for it right now. Vancouver is a crowded search market, so the win is in the services and neighbourhoods you can own first, then widening from there.
Where the Vancouver map pack stands
Vancouver is geographically tight and fiercely competitive, and the map pack radius is small enough that Burnaby and Richmond are effectively separate markets.
A Pacific-time market with its own competitive pattern: dense in Metro Vancouver, wide open across the Interior and the Island.
- Map pack first. For most Vancouver businesses the top three local listings send more calls than the website.
- Coverage beats position. One ranking number tells you nothing. We scan a grid across Metro Vancouver so you can see where you actually appear.
- Proximity is real. You will not beat a well run competitor at their own doorstep, but the space between you is winnable.
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SEO, web design and ads services in Vancouver
Most of it is local SEO services and Google Business Profile management, with SEO services for Canadian businesses, work from our web design company and paid ads management behind it, each reported to calls and enquiries.
Local SEO in Vancouver
Map pack rankings, Google Business Profile management and the local signals that decide who gets called in Vancouver.
See our local SEO serviceWeb design in Vancouver
Fast, mobile first websites that load quickly and make calling you the easiest thing on the page.
See our web design servicesGoogle Ads management in Vancouver
Paid campaigns targeted to Vancouver and the surrounding area, tracked to real enquiries rather than clicks.
See our ads management servicesIndustries we serve in Vancouver
Service businesses where a phone call is the sale. If your customers search in a moment of need, we have probably ranked someone like you: see SEO for plumbers or SEO for dentists, or browse SEO by industry.
Real local SEO results from clients like you
Real dashboards from accounts we manage, shared with the clients’ permission. Nothing here is a stock graph and nothing is rounded up.
Deck builders near me: 6 to 38 top-three points
A geo-grid scan checks your ranking from dozens of points spread across your service area and plots every one. Green is a top three position, amber is four to ten, red is eleven or worse. It is the only honest way to see how far your local visibility actually reaches, and it is usually the first thing that shocks an owner who thought they ranked fine.
What you are looking at: Geo-grid comparison for deck builders near me in Newmarket, top three rankings rising from 6 points to 38.
313 calls in four months, up 24.2% year over year
Calls, direction requests and profile views, taken straight from the client’s own Business Profile with Google’s own year over year comparison beside them. For most local businesses these numbers move before anything on the website does, which is why we fix the profile first.
What you are looking at: Google Business Profile performance showing 313 calls for a Toronto plumbing company, up 24.2 percent year over year.
16 months: 12,400 clicks, 5.17M impressions
Clicks and impressions from the client’s own Search Console. Impressions climbing first and clicks following a few weeks later is the normal shape of a campaign that is working. We show the flat months too, because a line that only ever goes up is not a report.
What you are looking at: Google Search Console over 16 months showing 12,400 clicks and 5.17 million impressions climbing steadily.
Toronto plumbing keywords moving to position one
Where specific search terms sit today against where they started. We track the ones that book work rather than the ones with the biggest search volume, which is why you will see plenty of low volume terms on these lists.
What you are looking at: Keyword rank tracking for Toronto plumbing terms showing multiple keywords moving to position one.
Where the traffic actually comes from
Which terms now pull an AI Overview, and whether the client is named inside it. Being cited in the answer is worth more than the position underneath it, and this is how we check it rather than guessing.
What you are looking at: Traffic sources broken down across paid, organic, direct, social and AI assistants.
Users up 25.7%, conversions up 110%
Form submissions, call clicks and conversions in Analytics. This is the number the whole campaign is judged on, and the reason we insist on call tracking before any work starts.
What you are looking at: Google Analytics dashboard showing users up 25.7 percent and conversions up 110 percent over 28 days.
The parts of Vancouver you need to show up in
Customers search by neighbourhood far more than they search by city. A single pin at your address will not reach most of these, which is why we scan and work the whole map rather than one postcode.
Places shown on this map: Kitsilano·Yaletown·Mount Pleasant·Gastown·Kerrisdale·West End·Dunbar·Marpole
8 neighbourhoods across Vancouver. We track rankings at points across all of them, not just at your address, which is the whole point of Google Maps SEO.
We work right across British Columbia, not just Vancouver. See every British Columbia market we cover, or browse the whole country. Our offices are in Mississauga and Barrie; see Mississauga SEO and our Barrie office.
SEO services in cities near Vancouver
Most of our clients serve more than one town. These are the markets next to Vancouver.
SEO across British Columbia
We work throughout the province and the rest of the country.
Vancouver questions we get asked
How long does SEO take to work in Vancouver?
Vancouver is competitive, so be realistic. Google Business Profile work usually shows movement in four to eight weeks, service page rankings build over three to six months, and the hardest city terms take longer. We show the movement every month.
Do you have an office in Vancouver?
Not in Vancouver itself. Our offices are in Mississauga and Barrie, and we work with Vancouver businesses remotely, which is how most agency relationships run now. If you would rather meet in person we travel.
Who am I actually competing with in Vancouver?
Usually two or three businesses that have held the map pack for years, plus national lead sites that rank for your best terms. The free audit names them and shows you exactly which parts of Vancouver each one owns.
What does SEO cost?
It depends on how many services and how much of the map you want to cover. We quote a fixed monthly figure after the free audit, once we can see the competition you are actually up against. No lock-in, and you keep everything we build. You can get a free SEO audit to start.
I run a service business without a storefront in Vancouver. Does local SEO still work?
Yes. Service area businesses rank differently but they rank. We hide the address, set the service area properly, and lean on the signals that are not proximity based: reviews that mention Vancouver, local links, and pages written for the areas you actually drive to.
Want to know where you rank in Vancouver?
Send us your website and your Vancouver service area. We will run a scan across Metro Vancouver and show you exactly where your Vancouver SEO stands today, where the untapped searches are, and who is winning them at the moment.