San Diego Local SEO Marketing Services

Rank Higher on Google Without Being an SEO Expert

With the one-stop-shop San Diego SEO Agency that understands how Google’s algorithms work.

Join dozens of companies that have grown their online presence with our San Diego SEO services. No SEO knowledge required.

Partnering with trusted San Diego SEO experts is crucial for companies that want to improve their website’s search engine rankings. We strategize to understand our clients’ unique goals and needs to create customized campaigns that increase organic traffic, generate more leads, boost brand awareness online, and generate sales. 

With our affordable local SEO services, your company can gain an edge over your competitors and establish a stronger business presence in local search results. Contact us today to learn how we can help your brand connect with more customers in San Diego and beyond.

Our San Diego SEO Services

You don’t need to be an SEO pro or a digital marketing expert to position your San Diego company on the first page of Google. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to search engine optimization today. That’s why we offer a range of SEO services to help grow companies.

From content marketing, keyword research to On-page SEO optimization, our San Diego SEO experts can coordinate all your search engine optimization efforts. 

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Content Writing

Answer the questions your potential customers already search for with informative, educational content that your clients can relate to. All are written and optimized by our experienced writers and San Diego SEO experts.

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Article Updates

Increase the value of your existing content with detailed article updates that give your site a competitive edge. From title tags to new sections, we update and improve your article after analyzing your competitors and what Google expects to see in the top search results.

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Content Briefs

Set your writers up for success with in-depth reports that include everything they need to write SEO-friendly blog posts. From title suggestions, links to include, words to write, and topics to cover, your writers will almost have their job cut out for them with our briefs.

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Keyword Research

Discover the best opportunities to rank higher in Google with valuable insights into what local customers and ranking websites are talking about. Our keyword research is how you find out which questions and topics to target, how popular these are, and how easy it is to rank with them.

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Link Building

Own your niche by investing in meaningful content links that increase your website’s credibility and set you as an authority in the San Diego industry. Zero spammy links.

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Content Plan

Make sure you’re producing content that a search engine recognizes as relevant and valuable with a data-driven content plan that increases website traffic and sales.

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Site Speed

From optimized images to making your web design more mobile responsive, get a competitive advantage over local businesses in San Diego by improving your site’s speed. This will result in lower bounce rates, higher conversion rates, higher ranking in Google, and, ultimately, an overall better user experience.

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Site Migration

Move your business website from one hosting provider to another without dropping your organic traffic or search engine results. No coding skills required. We recommend several hosting providers and content management systems that fit your needs. 

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Site Architecture

Lay the groundwork for a website that gives you the most significant results on your marketing investment. Let our SEO professionals design your site architecture from scratch or restructure your existing site to make sure it beats other San Diego companies.

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Site Audit

Optimize your site’s SEO performance and fix errors that keep your business from appearing in search engines.  Based on Google Analytics insights, we’ll run a site audit and identify the best opportunities and what needs to be done to increase your traffic, improve your engagement and raise the conversion rates of your website.

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Email Marketing

Build and maintain the meaningful relationships your business needs with highly targeted and engaging e-mail campaigns that keep your customers away from the unsubscribe button.

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Local SEO

Bring more customers to your door with local SEO tactics, from Google’s local pack to link building that increases your San Diego business’s online marketing visibility. We can find the best local keywords your website can rank for and your Google Business Profile so everyone in San Diego can easily find your company.

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Pinterest Management

Help paying customers find and remember your website without being a Pinterest pro. Promote your content, products, and services and break from the pack of your local market. We can handle every aspect of a Pinterest advertising campaign, from keyword research to writing compelling ad copy, and monitoring the results.

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Organic Social Media

Find and connect with your ideal customers where they are online. Increase engagement, expand your business reach, and build your brand’s online presence on the social networks your clients use. 

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Consulting

Access a wealth of search engine optimization knowledge and over 20 years of industry experience in business management and digital marketing. Have one of the best SEO companies in San Diego give you a consulting session.

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Product Reviews

Feature comprehensive product reviews on your website that thoroughly review each product, compares them to other products tested, include custom images, and have a high quality video showcasing their features.

What Makes 201 Creative The Right San Diego SEO Agency For You?

Understanding how search engines decide which relevant websites go at the top of the page and which go at the bottom can take a lot of time. You can’t fill your website with keywords and expect good results. You also need quality content that’s useful and relevant to your customers. 

At 201 Creative, we believe in helping businesses grow by providing solutions that are helpful for customers and rank better in SERPs. We’re here to guide you through it all and take all the guesswork out of SEO and digital marketing so you can focus on what you do best for your business. We support all our SEO services with data and a research-intensive strategy aligned with your business objectives.  

That means not only writing great content but keeping it up to date with new Google updates. We often analyze Google Analytics to make sure the website content matches your business’s needs and reflects keyword trends. At our San Diego SEO company, we continuously analyze different approaches and methods to create a perfect mix with proven results to rank higher on Google.

Being smaller than most SEO agencies allows us to customize our services to better adapt to your needs. We have local experts born and raised in San Diego with experience ranking sites in Pacific Beach, Mission Bay, La Jolla, and Southern California. You can never underestimate having the chance to discuss face-to-face with your San Diego agency.

Unlike any San Diego SEO company, you’re not just another customer or number to us. We understand that behind all the data and the charts, there are real people with true stories. We begin every project by establishing a solid relationship with you and deeply understanding your specific requests. When you have questions, we’ll be available by call, text, or email as often as you need.

What to Expect: Our Search Engine Optimization Process

  1. Everything begins with an initial consultation over a call or video call. Our approach is to take the time to listen to you, what your company does, your business model, who your competitors are, and where you want your company in San Diego to go.
  2. We then analyze where your website is in terms of SEO to determine what direction your company should go with its digital marketing. We combine your needs and goals with an analysis of where your site stands to determine where to go.
  3. Since there’s no one-size-fits-all strategy for SEO, we lay out different solutions and recommendations based on our insights. Then, you can choose from these based on your digital marketing needs and budget.
  4. We begin working and regularly meet to touch base and provide you with a progress report and results. Your dedicated San Diego SEO Expert will provide you with full service and enough updates and interactions that you won’t need to reach out. 

Expert Local Insights: San Diego SEO Tips

Mastering relevant SEO strategies and best practices can help local businesses improve their brand visibility and gain more clients in the San Diego market. We use these SEO techniques to optimize websites for high-intent local searches, setting businesses apart online and establishing a brand as a leading local provider.

  1. Update content for local search intent: Clean up duplicate content to avoid dividing page authority. We repurpose and update old site content to retain fresh information while providing opportunities to rank. This can also help your page rank better in local search results.
  2. Focus on primary and secondary keywords: Make search engines understand your relevance by focusing on primary and secondary keywords related to your business and location. We strategically and naturally place keywords in headers, content, and metadata. This enables websites to rank for the right searches without getting penalized for keyword stuffing.
  3. Leverage Schema markup: You can leverage schema markup like LocalBusiness. This helps search engines better understand the specifics of your San Diego location and enhances the rich results displayed.
  4. Build local authority using links: We add internal links that connect relevant pages on your site, indicating relevance to search engines. Secure San Diego-specific backlinks from local sites to establish your business as an authoritative local resource and improve local SEO visibility online.
  5. Boost CTR: Crafting compelling titles and meta descriptions that grab attention helps boost click-through rates from local search results. We create concise, informative meta descriptions to give searchers a summary of the content, enticing them to click to learn more. Together, these on-page elements drive more qualified traffic from organic searches.
  6. Leverage graphics and other visuals: We also develop graphics, images, and videos relevant to local offerings and provide additional opportunities for optimization. Take time to create proper alt text for images and videos so search engines can understand their content.
  7. Optimize URL slugs: The goal is to create cleaner, more user-friendly paths for visitors to land on the right pages. To improve the user experience and provide SEO value, we optimize URL slugs by making them short and descriptive. Having keywords that match the content in URLs signals relevancy to search engines. 
  8. Incorporate CTAs: We strategically place CTAs that encourage clicks to align with keyword-focused content. Including clear calls-to-action (CTAs) throughout the website content benefits SEO and conversions. This increases the likelihood of gaining customers from organic traffic.
  9. Conduct regular site audits: We conduct comprehensive checks to identify new site issues or optimization opportunities. As a result, we can fix problems onsite and continuously improve search visibility, traffic, and conversions over time.

Real-World Triumphs: Case Studies on Local SEO Projects

Whenever we take on a project, we take time to understand the goals and problems facing a client’s site in order to create a custom plan that will lead to real improvements where it counts. 

We analyze the data, explore strategy options, and execute plans to achieve the best outcomes for your business.

Site Speed for a Local Church Website

Discover how we optimized a church website that skyrocketed with a 12,373% growth in total organic clicks.

Goal

A local church came to us to help them reach local searchers. After analyzing their site, we developed a content plan focused on bringing in traffic that aligned with their goals. We also focused on improving the site’s usability and speed, as there were numerous technical SEO issues, especially with their navigation.

Strategy

We found the website’s problems after conducting an extensive Site Audit. This led us to make the following fixes:

  1. Performed in-depth keyword research, uncovering topics that would generate quality organic traffic
  2. Removed custom fonts for better load times
  3. Fixed broken pages and links (404 error)
  4. Reduced and optimized image sizes
  5. Set up proper canonicalization for the site

Results

After making these fixes, the website’s total organic clicks saw a 12,373% increase. This also includes a 233% increase in total impressions and a 305% growth in organic Click-Through-Rate (CTR).

Google Analytics Organic traffic data for two months

Local SEO Optimization for a Professional Services Website

With very little organic search traffic, see how a niche-relevant website reached a 385% increase in organic traffic.

Goal

This business’ goal was to increase organic search traffic and conversions in the San Diego market. We prioritized working on finding the topics that potential customers were searching. We found that they needed to establish expertise, authority, and trust with Google.

Strategy

We optimized the website to rank well for organic traffic using the following steps:

  1. Updated the homepage
  2. Developed a content strategy focusing on topical silos
  3. Content was simultaneously created to build topical authority in the businesses industry
  4. Published keyword-optimized content
  5. Strategically updated old content for higher rankings following our proven methods
  6. Implemented a strategic internal linking system
  7. Created a backlink campaign focusing on high trust, relevant targets

Results

Organic traffic growth had a significant spike during the project’s second half. After 12 months, the website achieved 385% growth in organic traffic, leading to more sales for the local service business.

Organic traffic growth report for a website

Site Architecture for a Local Veterinary Website

Learn how we tripled the traffic for a local vet website in just six months.

Goal

The site’s speed was slow, so we prioritized cleaning up image sizes and creating a better site architecture to match search intent.

Strategy

After finding the problems, we implemented the following strategy:

  1. Split service pages and added new content building on the site’s topical authority 
  2. Built backlinks to the home page, service pages, and blog posts
  3. Continued publishing highly relevant content targeting industry specific keywords
  4. Built citations to local service directories

Results

The website saw 3.5x organic traffic growth in just six months.

Organic keyword report from AHREFS

Content Planning and Writing for an E-Commerce Website

See how we deleted content for an e-commerce website with declining traffic and sales, resulting in a 285% rise in traffic after a year.

Goal

The goal was to delete low-quality content to introduce new, quality content with topical authority.

Strategy

Our strategy involved using our expertise with Google’s algorithms to analyze the content on the site to ensure that only content that boosted its authority was kept live on the site.

  1. Gained backlinks from authoritative websites in our client’s niche.
  2. Used internal links and anchor text to manage relevance.
  3. Deleted old content and published relevant, in-depth content for our client’s products.

Results

In less than two months after starting the project, we saw an immediate spike in traffic. Following more keyword research and creating more supporting content with links, traffic increased by 285%, while sales were up 116% in just 12 months.

Google Analytics Organic traffic data for two months

Site Audit and Repairs for a Hobby Niche Website

Know how site repairs returned 40% of a niche site’s peak growth despite Google’s core update in 2022.

Goal

Following Google’s May 2022 update, this website had lost all its featured snippets. The site also suffered a 68% drop in organic traffic before coming to us for help. The goal was to recover from these massive losses and rank again.

Pageview graph analysis between May 2022 - January 2023

Strategy

To get the site back on the right track, our approach focused on updating and deleting articles and fixing links.

  1. Deleted around 200 articles that weren’t getting traffic before and after the Google update
  2. Updated 30 old articles and published 25 new articles
  3. Fixed internal linking and anchor texts
  4. Embedded more than 80 videos into any relevant articles
  5. Submitted a Disavow file
  6. Removed the redirected domain
  7. Added E-E-A-T signals

Results

While the website recovered from the Google Update, the organic traffic only returned to 40% of its peak. Despite that, the site repairs allowed the website to get back on track as we published new content.

Testimonials & Success Stories

Join the ranks of clients from La Jolla to South Bay who have seen long-term exponential growth with our SEO services:

We had tried working with several SEO agencies previously, and none had been able to move the needle. Not only did 201 Creative dramatically increase organic traffic, but their customer service was unparalleled. They provide constant updates and interaction, never making you feel like just another number or customer.

Cole Humphus, ColesClassroom.com

I have watched my website continue to climb in organic ranking which has allowed me to reduce my total ad spend. Their wealth of data driven knowledge has helped our online reviews, custom automation projects, follow up email drip campaigns, and website improvements.

– Richard Harless, AZ Flat Fee

Prior to working with 201 we only did paid ads. Within 2 months of working with 201 on SEO, we’re top ranking for several of our keywords, and our phone is literally ringing off the hook, with everyone finding us on search.

– Jeff Youngren, The Youngrens

201 Creative has helped us reduce our monthly ad spend by increasing our organic website traffic. Jared and his team are truly a great group of trustworthy people who are organized, professional, easy to work with, and honest.

– Courtney de Craen, Paws into Grace

201 Creative has been an ultimate game changer in my business and SEO!! Their great team of extremely skilled and kind professionals made the complicated process easy-to-understand and produced incredible results!

– Dixie Dixon, Fashion Photographer and Nikon Ambassador

Almost immediately we saw our digital engagement go up and to the right. What sets 201 Creative apart, however, is that they understand numbers and lines on a chart aren’t just numbers and lines – they are real people, with real stories.

– Ian MacMaster, The Church at RB

Frequently Asked Questions

Why Should I Hire A San Diego SEO Agency?

You should hire a San Diego SEO company to benefit from the insights of experienced professionals specializing in SEO. Search engines are constantly rolling out a crazy amount of yearly updates, which are hard to keep up with for anyone who doesn’t specialize in SEO. Additionally, ranking on Google comprises different efforts that are too much for one person to handle.

A San Diego SEO Company can take all the guesswork from your hands and use its wealth of knowledge and range of different experts to make search engine optimization work for you. This could mean ranking higher in search results, reducing ad spending, getting more leads and traffic, or bringing more clients to your door. By trusting your SEO efforts to a San Diego SEO company, you free up more time to focus on yourself and your company. 

How Can I Choose A San Diego SEO Service?

To choose the right SEO service for you, look at where your company stands regarding SEO and Digital Marketing.

  • If you’re getting started, you might need to design your site architecture, work on your Local SEO, and position your business in the San Diego local pack.
  • If you struggle to reach out to your customers or get your business noticed, you must invest in paid ads, organic social media, and email marketing. 
  • If you already have some content on your website but do not see the results that you want or expect, you might need to update old articles, get some authoritative links to your website, or even examine your site speed.

Better yet, you can let an experienced professional help you find the best SEO service that fits your needs.

What Should I Look For In San Diego Seo Company?

Before you choose a any San Diego SEO company, do your research and consider the following factors before you select one: 

  • Read client testimonials to see what former clients have to say about the services and what they think of the company. 
  • Check their portfolio and success stories. They should have a proven track record of increasing traffic and helping companies in San Diego rank higher in search engine results.
  • Ask how they accomplish results and the tools or methods they use. Cheap SEO companies turn to less reputable SEO techniques that can tank your website rankings or make Google penalize your site. Stay away from these companies and instead choose a reliable agency that understands the industry in San Diego and only uses strategies with proven results. 
  • Take a look at their team members. Ranking higher on Google requires experience and expertise in different roles. Each team member must specialize in their particular area, so they won’t need to resort to freelancers and outsource their work. 

What Is The Price Of Your San Diego SEO Company?

Unlike other SEO companies, we don’t believe in cookie-cutter solutions that won’t fit your company’s goals. It’s hard to price SEO services without getting to know your company in San Diego, where it stands, what your goals are, and the best SEO solutions that fit these goals.

You can book an initial consultation entirely for free. Our San Diego team will meet with you, learn more about you, and present you with a proposal that fits your budget and SEO needs, along with pricing.

Meet a San Diego SEO expert and receive a plan with the best opportunities for your company.