SEO for Vancouver businesses

Vancouver SEO that turns searches into sales while you sleep

Right now, somebody in your market is typing exactly what you sell into Google. Or asking ChatGPT who to call. Someone is getting that customer. Our SEO specialists in Vancouver make sure it’s you.

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Trusted by businesses across Canada and the US — from local trades to enterprise brands.

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Here’s the short version → Setsail is a Vancouver SEO and AI SEO (GEO) agency helping businesses rank in Google, local results and AI answers like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

For:: Local services · trades & construction · ecommerce · B2B · pro services · health · public sector · multi-location
What we do:: Technical SEO · local SEO · content · links · GEO / AI visibility
Pricing:: $2,500–$6,500/mo · no setup fee · month-to-month
How we work:: Benchmark → fix foundation → build pages + authority → track → compound · fixed timelines, deliverables and pricing
Where:: Vancouver, BC · Lower Mainland · Canada + US
Proof:: $100M+ generated · 500+ clients · 10 years · B Corp · weekly shipping · live portal

What we do

SEO specialists Vancouver: four ways your customers search.

Google, the map pack, the shopping results, and now the AI answers. We build for wherever your buyers actually look, not just the one that’s easiest to report on.

Near me

Local SEO for Vancouver businesses

When your buyer types “near me,” one business gets the call and the rest get nothing. Local SEO decides which one you are: proximity, category relevance, and how consistently your business shows up everywhere it’s listed, tuned to the way your customers phrase the search. We build the local layer for Vancouver, the Lower Mainland, and the BC and Pacific Northwest markets you actually serve, with your Google Business Profile managed end to end and every review answered within 24 hours. No exceptions, and no generic map pack.

Sample report showing site health after 90 days: speed score 94, crawl errors down from 214 to 3

Technical SEO services in Vancouver

Your site can read beautifully and still be invisible. The reason is usually technical: site structure and crawl paths that bury your best pages, indexation nobody ever checked, missing schema, page speed quietly bleeding rankings, internal links pointing everywhere except your money pages. Technical SEO is the unglamorous work that decides whether your good pages are ever seen. We audit it, fix it in priority order, and show you what each fix was worth. Not a 40-page audit that sits in a drawer: fixes, shipped, and verified live within 24 hours.

AI answers

GEO: get recommended by AI - ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

A growing share of your buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google’s AI before they ever click a result, and those answers recommend a short list of names. GEO, Generative Engine Optimization, is how you get recommended when someone asks ChatGPT or Google’s AI who to call: structured data, FAQ content written the way people actually ask, and answer-ready blocks the engines can cite, with your visibility tracked weekly across the five big AI engines: ChatGPT, Google’s AI results, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Mode. (SEO + GEO plans and up)

Sample search results for “trail running shoes women” with a store’s collection page in first place

Product search

Ecommerce SEO for Shopify and other platforms

As an ecommerce SEO agency, we work on the searches and catalogue structure that help shoppers find the right products. Most stores plateau because their SEO treats a 400-page catalogue like a four-page brochure site. Ecommerce SEO is its own discipline: collection and product page architecture, faceted-navigation control, structured data across the whole catalogue, and intent mapping down to the SKU. To a crawler, hundreds of your pages look identical until somebody makes them legible. We run it for Shopify and other platforms across BC and the Pacific Northwest, starting from which products your customers search for, in their words, at their moment of decision.

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Starting with Strategy: Imagine knowing exactly which searches your next ten customers will make.

The research

You’ve served your customers for years, and you know exactly why they choose you. Our job is to map how they buy: what they type into Google, what they ask ChatGPT, what they compare before they ever reach you. Ten years of that research go into your plan, and you see it before you commit to anything: every engagement opens with a Growth Strategy, and it’s yours to keep either way. The first keyword we chase for you already has a buyer standing behind it.

The partnership

Deliverables, timeline, and pricing are fixed and approved by you before we start, which means you never wonder, never chase, and never renegotiate mid-stream. From there, the work shows up in your portal as it ships, your report arrives every month, and the strategy adjusts as your data comes in. The July 2026 baseline recorded Setsail as an AI Overview citation for “SEO specialist Vancouver”. We track that visibility as search results change.

A sample 90-day plan: foundations, build and launch, then optimize and report, agreed before work starts

The first 90 days

From we signed to → it’s working: your first 90 days, step by step.

This is the exact route between those two sentences, the same cadence our delivery team runs and the one your plan is written against.

Step 1
Days 1–5: We learn your business before we touch it
Generic SEO plans fail because they’re built from a software export, not from your business. So we start with a kickoff call and then a real person goes through your website the way a customer would. The plan that follows fits you, not a template.
Step 2
Days 3–10: We measure where you stand today
Agencies that never record a starting line can never be proven wrong, which is exactly why most don’t. We record yours before changing anything: rankings, traffic, AI visibility. From here on, every claim about progress is one you can check.
How it works
Step 3
Days 10–14: You approve the plan
No more signing a retainer on faith and finding out later what it bought. Your 90-day plan lands in your hands in plain English: what we’ll do, in what order, and why. Nothing starts until you’ve signed off, so you know exactly what your money is doing before it does anything.

Month 1, Foundations. The invisible problems get fixed
This is the month most retainers disappear into “we’re working on it.” Not here: the technical issues quietly costing you rankings get fixed first, and you watch each fix go live in your portal, dated. And honestly: we don’t promise ranking jumps in month one, because that’s not how search works, and you deserve a partner who says so.
Month 2, Build. Your pages start winning the questions that matter
The pages that make you money get rewritten to answer exactly what your customers ask, on Google and in AI answers (AI-answer work: SEO + GEO plans and up), and the first links from real, relevant sites start building your authority. Around weeks 7 and 8 the first movement typically shows on the quickest keywords, and you see it in your portal, not in a promise. The competitive terms take months, and we say so up front.
Month 3, Compound. We double down on what’s working
Most agencies coast here, re-selling you the same plan on a new invoice. Instead we push harder where your numbers are moving, refresh fading pages before they slip, and sit down with you around day 80: what moved, what didn’t, and a next-90-days plan built from your results. You never have to wonder whether continuing is worth it. The numbers answer that.

SEO. Turn searches into new business.

Business goals and buyer journeys guide how we help people find you in search, Maps and AI answers.

Google Search
Google Maps · local businesses
AI answers · SEO + GEO

01Align search with how your customers buy

We start with your goals, your main services and who your best customers are. We map the questions they ask before they buy, then find where you can show up on Google, Maps and AI search.

Your business-led SEO plan

Goals · buyer journey · priority pages
A focused 90-day plan

How your customers buy

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02Help buyers find you, trust you and act

Find you*

Be found in search and AI

We fix search access, internal links and mobile speed. For SEO + GEO plans, we also check access for relevant AI search crawlers.

Trust you

Earn trust where buyers look

We pursue relevant links and mentions. For local businesses, we manage Google profiles, listings and review responses.

Act

Turn searches into enquiries

We answer buying questions with your expertise and credible proof—helping buyers decide and search systems understand your pages.

03Measure results. Refine the plan.

We track changes, improve underperforming pages and build on what works. Each report sets the next priorities, and every 90 days the results shape your next plan.

Are more buyers finding us?: Search visibility + AI mentions*
Are they enquiring or buying?: Tracked enquiries + purchases, compared with your starting point.

Work follows your agreed scope. Local SEO applies where relevant. *AI search work and AI mention tracking come with SEO + GEO plans and up. Digital PR comes with the SEO + GEO + Digital PR plan.

How often we work on it: from daily checks to a 90-day plan refresh.

Every weekday: Monitor changes. Flag issues early.
Every week: Make improvements. Verify them live.
Every month: Results explained. Three clear priorities.
Every 90 days: Refresh your plan using the results.

How the work actually happens
— the full walkthrough video

Client portal & communication

Communication and reporting that make marketing the easiest thing on your desk.

From “is this even working?” to watching it work: live portal, monthly report, scheduled calls, or a quick message when something’s on your mind. However you like to work, we’ll match it. Inside the portal: your live SEO dashboard and anything that needs your approval.

A preview of the Setsail client portal with illustrative numbers: Google position climbing from #14 to #1, AI-answer citations against three competitors, and this month’s leads, cost per lead, ad spend and booked revenue

Day one: the starting line

We record exactly where you stand before touching anything: rankings, traffic, AI visibility. That’s the line every result gets measured against, so progress is provable, not a feeling.

Every week: tracked

You see movement, or the lack of it, while there’s still time to act on it. Live in your portal, never in a year-end surprise.

Every month: reported

The report shows the numbers moving, misses included. Five minutes to read, nothing to decode.

Every cycle: steered

Every 90 days the plan re-forms around what’s working, so your budget keeps flowing toward the work that pays and away from anything that doesn’t.

Our team

One person can’t be great at all of this. So you get a specialist for each part.

Strategy, weekly optimization, writing, design, development, and someone whose whole job is keeping it moving. Each one works your account for the hours their craft is needed, so every seat is filled by a specialist instead of one hire stretched across all of it. Here’s who does what.

Alex Semybratskyi

Account Manager

Your main contact. Runs your monthly strategy call, sends your monthly report, and always knows where things stand.

Carson Meyer

Head of Strategy

Owns the strategy. Keyword research, page priorities, link direction, AI-visibility work, all decided from your data.

Tom Richards

COO

Writes your pages and answer blocks, in your voice, to a quality gate AI engines actually cite.

Marco Pregonero

Design Lead

Graphics and page layouts for anything we build on your site.

Oleksandr Boitsun

Developer

Technical fixes, page speed, structured data, deployed and verified live within 24 hours.

Your account is watched every day, not once a month. If something significant moves, we’re on it the same day, usually before you’ve noticed.

Trusted by governments and 500+ businesses

10 years · $100M+ revenue generated · 500+ clients

Case studies

SEO that puts more dollar bills in your bank account

Somewhere below is a business that started right where you are now. Look at their numbers today. Trades and home services are where most of our work sits.

Organic traffic doubled: Microworks Handyman · Trades. Year over year, three months into a local SEO programme across Metro Vancouver.
+138% keyword visibility TQ Construction · Construction. In four months for a Burnaby design-build firm, after a full site revamp and SEO programme.
5 → 32 ranking keywords Ray Blinds · Home services. In two months, with 3 in the top 10, after we cleaned up 8,000+ broken pages holding the site back. Vancouver blinds retailer.
0 → 1,800+ organic visitors NovaDent Labs · Medical / dental. A month, in one quarter, built from zero for an international dental lab.
+331% organic traffic ScaleLabs · SaaS / tech. Over five months of SEO and a Webflow migration.
+28% organic traffic eBikeBC · Ecommerce. In the first quarter after a mobile-first rebuild of their ecommerce site, with +35% online conversions alongside.

Build better.Ideate faster.Grow quicker.

★★★★★

They say it better than we can

Dorthy Cheng
Executive Assistant, CleanDesign

10 Years in Business$100M+ revenue generated500+ clients

B Corp Certified
Google Partner
Channel Partner
Claude Partner

Plans designed to reach your goals, at a pace that matches your ambition

Every plan includes the live dashboard, a monthly report, a monthly strategy call, and month-to-month terms. No lock-in.

SEO

$2,500/mo

For businesses that need to win Google first.

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What’s included?

Your technical foundation fixed, so Google can find, read, and trust your site
2 money pages optimized every month, so the pages that pay you climb first
Developer hours included, so fixes ship instead of sitting in a ticket queue
Your local presence managed end to end, so “near me” searches find you
$300/mo of real link outreach, so your site earns the authority rankings require. Never bought links.

SEO is a hundred small jobs. Here’s every one we do.

Research & strategy
- Full technical SEO audit
- AI-search-readiness audit
- Keyword research mapped to specific pages
- Baseline snapshot: rankings, traffic, AI visibility
- Strategy workshop with your leadership team
- Tracking your share of the searches that matter vs. named competitors
On-page & content
- Sales-critical page copy optimized to rank and convert
- Full rewrites of revenue-critical pages, live within 24 hours
- Refreshing pages that are losing steam before rankings slip
- Trust signals Google rewards: author credentials, sources, proof
- Formatting that wins the highlighted answer box on Google
- Fixing your own pages competing against each other
- Topic clusters and cornerstone pillar pages
- New page builds
GEO / AI search
- The behind-the-scenes markup that helps Google and AI read your site
- FAQ sections written the way people actually ask AI assistants
- Content structured so AI assistants can lift your answers directly
- A weekly check on where the AI engines are recommending you
- Making sure AI engines know exactly who you are and that you’re current
- Getting you into the sources AI engines cite, with every new mention logged
Technical & local
- Monthly developer hours included
- Pointing your site’s internal links at the pages that make you money
- Title and description experiments
- Finding the technical issues that keep Google from seeing your pages
- Plain-English algorithm-update briefings
- Google Business Profile managed end to end, weekly posts minimum
- Every review responded to within 24 hours
- Getting your name, address and phone consistent everywhere online
- Location pages
Authority & digital PR
- Monthly link outreach budget: real outreach, never bought placements
- Content built specifically to earn links
- Original data studies and expert commentary
- Direct journalist outreach, placements on Domain Trust 40+ publications, every placement verified live
Reporting & partnership
- Live dashboard
- Monthly report
- Email communication
- Monthly strategy call, plus scheduled calls whenever you need one
- Quarterly business review connecting SEO to revenue
- Rolling 90-day plans, month-to-month

What’s included depends on the plan you pick.

SEO & GEO · Vancouver

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Revenue generated for clients: $100M+
Clients served: 500+
In business: 10 years

Who we’re for

If you catch yourself nodding at any of these, book the call

You want more business than you’re getting now, and you’re ready to do something about it.
You’re not happy with your digital presence, the site, the ads, the socials, and you believe it could be producing a lot more.
You’re already spending on marketing, and you can’t say for sure which part of it brings in work.
You’ve never hired an agency, and you’d rather see a plan you can hold in your hands than sign a retainer on faith.

You’ve worked with an agency before, and this time you want a full, well-thought-out strategy you can actually understand before anyone starts.
And once things are running, you want to see the data, read the reporting, understand the tweaks being made, and know someone’s on top of it, without having to chase anyone.
You’re a public-sector or B2B team that needs a documented, defensible strategy before budget gets approved.

Book a Growth Strategy call

30 minutes, free.

Start with a call. We’ll dig into your business, your market, and what’s holding your numbers back, and you’ll leave knowing exactly what to fix first. If it makes sense to go further, our strategists then build your full Growth Strategy and present it with the complete plan.

10 years · $100M+ revenue generated · 500+ clients

Before the call, we run a 200+ point audit of your full online presence, so we arrive already knowing your starting point. On the call, we’ll walk you through:

What we found and what it means for your business
Where your competitors are outperforming you
Your top priorities — what to fix first

Bring your goals and challenges. We’ll bring the data.

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Setsail is a digital marketing agency in Vancouver, British Columbia, with a 30+ person in-house team running paid ads, SEO, websites, email and social for owner-led businesses across Canada and the US.

Hiring an SEO agency? What to check first.

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Looking for an SEO consultant in Vancouver

Plenty of people search for a consultant when what they actually want is the work done. A consultant hands you a plan and leaves you to execute it. We do both: you get a named SEO specialist who owns your account, plus the writers, developers and outreach people needed to ship what the plan says. If all you want is an audit and a roadmap, say so on the call and we’ll quote exactly that, without the retainer.

Book a Growth Strategy call

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Comparing SEO companies in Vancouver

Compare on four things and the shortlist gets short fast. Ask who does the work and whether you can see it happening. Ask what they report on, and whether misses appear in it. Ask what happens to your content, rankings and accounts if you leave. And ask for the numbers behind a claim, with the client named. Our answers are on this page, and every one of them is checkable.

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Setsail Marketing

Vancouver, BC + Beaverton, OR

Clients across Canada and the US: 500+
Revenue generated for clients: $100M+

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What does Setsail’s SEO service actually include?

Technical SEO, local SEO, ecommerce SEO and commercial page architecture — built on a keyword and intent model of how your specific customers search, not a generic checklist. Reporting is monthly and runs on share of voice across your non-brand commercial terms, not vanity traffic.

How long does SEO take to produce results?

Nothing is promised in month one. First movement typically shows on the quickest keywords around weeks 7 and 8, meaningful compounding movement arrives over months three to six, and competitive page-one positions take six to eighteen. Anyone quoting faster is selling you traffic that will not convert. We report projection against actual every month, misses included, so you can see the trajectory rather than take it on faith.

What is technical SEO and does my site need it?

Technical SEO is the work that makes a site crawlable, indexable and fast enough to compete — site structure, schema markup, indexation, page speed and internal linking. If your pages are good and still invisible, this is usually why.

Do you do SEO for ecommerce and Shopify stores?

Yes. Ecommerce SEO is a distinct discipline — collection and product page architecture, faceted-navigation control, structured data and search-intent mapping across the catalogue — and we run it for Shopify and other platforms across BC and the Pacific Northwest.

What is the pricing for SEO services in Vancouver?

Our SEO plans are fixed monthly prices: SEO is $2,500 a month, SEO + GEO is $3,500, and SEO + GEO + Digital PR is $6,500. There is no setup fee, every plan runs month to month, and each one comes with a 100% money-back guarantee on your first 90 days. Published rates are on our pricing page.

How do I choose an SEO firm or SEO company in Canada?

Compare on four things. Who does the work, and can you see it happening? What do they report on, and do misses appear in it? What happens to your content, rankings and accounts if you leave? And can they show the numbers behind a claim, with the client named? Be wary of anyone who guarantees rankings: no one controls Google, and we never promise a position.

Do you offer local SEO for Vancouver businesses?

Yes, in every SEO plan. Local SEO decides which business gets the call when your buyer types “near me.” We build the local layer for Vancouver, the Lower Mainland and the BC and Pacific Northwest markets you serve, with your Google Business Profile managed end to end and every review answered within 24 hours.

What is GEO, and do I need it as well as SEO?

GEO, or generative engine optimization, is work to improve how your business is discovered and represented in AI search. It shares SEO’s foundations: accessible pages, accurate business facts, useful original content and credible evidence. We address buyer questions and track where your business is mentioned or cited; no markup can guarantee a recommendation. Our SEO + GEO plans include weekly visibility tracking across five AI engines.

Vancouver SEO that turns searches into sales while you sleep

Here’s the short version → Setsail is a Vancouver SEO and AI SEO (GEO) agency helping businesses rank in Google, local results and AI answers like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.

SEO specialists Vancouver: four ways your customers search.

Local SEO for Vancouver businesses

Technical SEO services in Vancouver

GEO: get recommended by AI - ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

Ecommerce SEO for Shopify and other platforms

Starting with Strategy: Imagine knowing exactly which searches your next ten customers will make.

The research

The partnership

From we signed to → it’s working: your first 90 days, step by step.

Days 1–5: We learn your business before we touch it

Days 3–10: We measure where you stand today

Days 10–14: You approve the plan

Month 1, Foundations. The invisible problems get fixed

Month 2, Build. Your pages start winning the questions that matter

Month 3, Compound. We double down on what’s working

SEO. Turn searches into new business.

01Align search with how your customers buy

02Help buyers find you, trust you and act

Be found in search and AI

Earn trust where buyers look

Turn searches into enquiries

03Measure results. Refine the plan.

How often we work on it: from daily checks to a 90-day plan refresh.

How the work actually happens— the full walkthrough video

Communication and reporting that make marketing the easiest thing on your desk.

One person can’t be great at all of this. So you get a specialist for each part.

Trusted by governments and 500+ businesses

SEO that puts more dollar bills in your bank account

They say it better than we can

Plans designed to reach your goals, at a pace that matches your ambition

SEO is a hundred small jobs. Here’s every one we do.

Research & strategy

On-page & content

GEO / AI search

Technical & local

Authority & digital PR

Reporting & partnership

Find Out Exactly Where Your SEO Stands

If you catch yourself nodding at any of these, book the call

Book a Growth Strategy call

Hiring an SEO agency? What to check first.

Looking for an SEO consultant in Vancouver

Comparing SEO companies in Vancouver

Questions about SEO with Setsail

How the work actually happens
— the full walkthrough video