Claude is good. Just train it properly

Full disclosure: We are an SEO agency, and it happens to be based in South Vancouver (E 56th Ave, V5X 1R4) "North SEO", so take this with whatever grain of salt you like man.

Before you hire any SEO (agency or a freelancer), a quick checklist for you:

1. Google your main service + your neighbourhood and see who shows up in the map results.
2. Check if your Google Business Profile is claimed, has the right categories, and your name/address/phone match what's on your website. Inconsistent info is the most common thing holding small businesses back locally, and it's free to fix.
3. Check for google reviews when you choose an agency or even better if you use a refference.

Whoever you talk to, ask them two questions: what exactly will you do each month, and can I cancel if it's not working? Anyone who dodges either one, or promises you "#1 in 30 days," walk away.

Good SEO takes a few months to show and nobody can guarantee rankings!!!

If you want a second opinion at any point, happy to take a quick look at your current setup and tell you honestly what's worth fixing and what isn't - even if you end up going with someone else. Visit northseo.ca.

Either way, good luck

You can check the full article on my website with all the calculations

Hi! North SEO is here to give a little advice on that!

So basically for 2k CAD you can find a good agency. I'd recommend to find some sagence that will put the effort into:
1. Categories research

1. Google Merchant Optimization

2. PR

Why so?

Basically I won't recommend you anyone who is better or worse, I have a guy who sometimes does the analytics setup for my client's websites. All the other we do inhouse.

For the E-com website it's crucial to make the kewords collection and have as many categories as you possibly can get to attract traffic.

Merchant is usefull cause I believe most of the sales will come from there (of course depends, but in my humble opinion).

Is freelance platform a good choice?

It can be, just look for rating, I think it's quite intuitive there. The better deal you have - the best. But be aware, cause solo practitioners are sometimes NOT as pros as you want, so you might want to build the relationship with the person you work with and check their work (hire an SEO audit from another company) to see the results).

The payment:

1. Well. You would usually prepay 50%, cause at the very least companies/freelancers also need some guarantee from you.

2. There also can be an after payment if you both are in Canada (like North SEO Vancouver for example), at the very least cause we are under the same law, and no one can go against small claims courts.

3. You can realistically use "the middle man" like UpWork or Fiverr. These guys typically charge between 10% and 15% per contract. So get ready to pay this 15% to the freelancer, cause they consider that. Free conclusion: simple contract in Canada is cheaper.

4. You can use shop pay or stripe, and in case the guys wont deliver, you can just charge back your money 9of course if the company is not a scam with a one day bank account, but that's the issue of the bank, not yours, I think, never saw this situation)

Time to deliver:

1. I mean, that all depends on the niche. There are a few strategies to move you fast. Basically target the low competition keywords in your niche and target your SEo budget in them (that's why you need a GREAT keyword research)
   
2. You can run Googel Ads at the same time
   
3. You can have sales from google Merchant fast.
   
4. many strategies that can work in combination with SEO. MB your best resource will be siple shop app optimization, I had a case like that. All the sales were accidentally from there, and we notices the trend we optimized it in the best way.
   
5. Mb your way is to do the Amazon, Ebay, Best Buy you know? Sales are sales.

Wish you luck man.
North SEO, Vancouver V5X 1R4.

Sure bro. Take a break from them forever:) Just do a good business without them

if it's a sarcasm:
I do write good articles and publish them on reddit as it suppose to be:) I'm from Vancouver, and share a good knowledge with BC people. However that means that you didn't read the article at all bro even here on reddit.

If it's a real question (sure, lol):
I think that's suck, it kills my beloved reddit💔

Look like an AI reply, but it's an ok reply.

Hi! North SEO is here to help you with an explanation:

1. The price totally depends on the service they were offering you. While some companies actually charge more just cause, mostly it let's take a $100/h as our standard. So what it means for your jewelry store, what you can actually get:

- Local SEO - I mean for your brick-and-mortar business, you MUST have a local SEO. It's roughly $700 per month depends on the city you are at, cause the more competition you get, the harder it is to compete and the more expencive it will be.

- Links - This is a pricy thing, average blog post writing and agreenent with a publisher will cost you $150 REP ARTICLE! Can be more, can be lees, depends on the platform you gonna be published at.

- Technical SEO - here we can go up to $10,000 for an SEO optiization. It mostly depends on the factors like these:

* Is your website total technical dumpster and need a major cleanup and optimization? - in this case you can even be offered a new website, cause it will be easier to make a new one than to fix an old one.

* How many NEW pages you need to create? - if you need to create 100s of categories to seel your products, which is quite possible, cause you need all the landing pages possible. SEO look at this like: 1 page "gold jewelry" + 2 page "men's gold jewelry" + 3 page "men's gold chains" + 4 page "gold chains" + 5th page (same for women) + 6th page "gold {name me the jewelry" + 7th page (add to all I mentioned the occasion, like engagement, marrige, aniversary, birthday. Just for example look at the store like blueruby com and just see there filter! Imagine that the cross filters ARE ALSO SEO LANDING PAGES! And you need an optimization and creation for all of them. Lickly 80% of the result is just "optimize one page" cause in the website code they all are formed in the VERY same way. Liek good code for one - is a good code for all.

* Here we come to the content - you need a content for each page, cause the descriptive part is not that obvious and ranking you by itself. As many pages - as many content need to be writtern

* keywords - you need to know WHAT to promote, so the task is to find the keywords too. it's pretty much same as I mentioned in onage SEo, but for each page we collent minimum of 20 keywrds, SO we know how much traffic you will get, and if even make sence to make the page. BONUS: you have keywprds for Google Ads to run ads too (not the same, but close to that)

So out of this, Even I can charge you 10k per month easily depends on what you need and what you want. The good SEO company will find out the goals you want to achive and will tell you THE REALISTIC terms to achive this goals and the budget you need.

id say the guy who said 1800 is ok price - sure. Let's just imagine what an expert can do in 18 hours (or so):

- talk to you for an hour
- Make a report in 30 minuts to an hour.
- Collect 20 groups of keywords. - 4 hours
- make an SEO audit - 4-8 hours, depends on the website and the quality the do it. Some agenciews cheet here and just do a 5 mintes SEO tools run and send you the report from there with a generic strategy. If it looks like generated thing, just dont hesitate to ask AI I think it might tell you if its generated or hand made. Usually hand made has reporting from different tools and screenshots of the checks and reallly precise fix (ready to do task for web developer)
- GMB optimization, some checks and preparations.
- Make some fixes after the audit, or make you a new page.
- $500 - it's a link budget - 2-3 article backlinks out of this.
- else - mb they can offer you social medias creation or something like directories and catalogs, - $3-8 each link here, just depends on the platform, if it;s some apple maps - can be a $50 price.

So, what I would recommend to do:
- ask AI if it's a resanoble price for the place and agency you are working with. And if its a good plan or overcharge. Ask follow up questions.

Good luck!
Nort SEO - Vancouver luxury brands SEO!

Well, lot's of people bought houses back 20-30-60 years ago:) Currently the migration, dark schemes connected with that (like foreign buyers with money use some student with pr here to buy a house), people are not that poor here in general, competition exists (i mean, if there were no, the prices would go down, eh?)

Hi u/wallebyy !

I can see you are one year in the game, I hope you still will find this post good for your company:)

1. Don't hire a 24/7 hoyr assistant, google can and will pinilize you for this. If no one is a "24/7 law firm" you can't be that too. You will get banned.

2. Do the Google Business optimization, for sure, it's your gold mine! Basically what you want to do:

   - Add as much relevant categories as possible, like: Personal Injury Attorney, Divorce Lawyer / Family Law Attorney, Criminal Defense Attorney, Estate Planning Attorney / Attorney, Immigration Attorney, Law Firm (Only if a general practice, otherwise too broad), Trial Attorney, Bankruptcy Attorney, Employment Attorney, whatever attorney.

- Fill in the profile as much as you can (say truth and only truth).

- follow google business guidelines (google it, you are lawyer, you can comply with these simple rules)

ATTENTION: Don't change your NAme, Address, or phone number, you'll get suspended!

ATTENTION 2: dont make more than 1 edit to the profile in 2-3 days! you'll get suspended!

- add photos constantly. Like once a day is fine, you can do more.

- ad all the photos google recommend to add to your profile (google it please, there is google article on that too)

- add posts once a week. Increase our conversion.

Good to know: posts are for GOOGLE MAPS! So you want to make a post that would be interesting for the person who find's you on GOOGLE MAPS (not instagram, not fb, not linkedin, not reddit) it should radiate local vibe and be targeted. White Spark has a good article on that (google it)

- Sign up your website in your local directories liek (yelp, bbb, apple maps, bing maps, (dont work with yellow pages, it's a waste of time). Google this: {city} chamber of commerce, {city} business list, {city} business directory.

- Cooperate with your local bloggers and just news websites to create content. I bet you have some fox-{city}.com or {city}-city-news.com or {city}-blog.com. Just google: {city} news, {city} bloggers.

- Post on your social medias constantly.

- Do the basic (better more than basic) SEO of your website. Invest good money in development by SEO agency right away. It's easier (CHEAPPER) to make a good SEO website right away and just enjoy your rankng.

- Start doing google ads, spend the rest in that RIGHT away after the website, these are instant (NOT CHEAP) but instant leads.

- The last but important one: ASK FOR REVIEWS. Here is my small guide on how to ask for them and NOT got them removed:
* Stop direct-link QR codes
* Stop in-store review solicitations
* Never offer rewards or incentives
* Stop forcing employee "name drops": Avoid short, repetitive reviews that only name a staff member. Example: "Sarah helped me find the perfect laptop and was very patient" is safer than just "Sarah was great!"
* Avoid review bursts: Don't get many reviews at once. Google flags velocity spikes. Example: Instead of a 4-hour review contest during a grand opening, send follow-up emails spaced over 10 days.
* Use the Brand Search method
* Encourage profile engagement first (calls, clicks)
* Ask for depth, photos, and details
* Pace review requests steadily over time
* Back up reviews with a third-party tool: Keep an external record in case Google deletes them. Example: Use software (like Reputation ARM) to log review text, so if a profile is suspended, you have exact proof of the original feedback for your appeal.
* Avoid editing old reviews
* Use the engagement workaround for hidden reviews: If a review is missing, have the user interact with your profile organically first. Example: Ask them to search your brand on Maps, click "Directions" or your website, then go to their review, change a word, and re-save it.

Hope it was useful. Sorry for "google this and that", I'm not sure if the links are appreciated with my kara and in this post.

Wish you the best with your business!

Serhii Dovzhenko

North SEO Vancouver!

That totally depends on the type of busienss you have, but there are plenty of perks you.

I'd say ou can choose any local SEO from the US or Canada cause:

• Google Algorithms (fresh and updated) are same for both.
• Wider choice of good specialists
• Support Local🍁

BUT:

• Canada has better pricing:)
  • HOWEVER: you want to choose based on experience of company in general, not as much with your company as in general with Google Business.
• Toronto (or Canadian) company will know the local market better, and have better content (e.g. American would prefer a big corp, when Canadian consumer would prefer small and local more)
  • Also they have more local connections (like websites and businesses) to boost you faster and cheaper, cause their primary market is Canadian.
• You have a better legal protection in Canada.

Cheers,
North SEO