Canada & the United States

An SEO agency for Canadian local service businesses, measured on the map.

We work with local service businesses across Canada from Surrey, BC. The method is the same in every market: a geo-grid map of where you are visible before you pay anything, then a fixed 12-week program measured against that baseline.

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Quick answer

For a local service business anywhere in Canada, the SEO that produces calls is local SEO: Google Map Pack and Google Maps visibility across your service area, reviews, consistent business data, and a fast, clear website. A good SEO agency measures that with a geo-grid across your real coverage area, works to a defined timeline against a locked baseline, gives you direct access to the data, and takes one client per industry per market. Digital Handshake Media does that for businesses across Canada and the United States, billed in CAD or USD. See the full method and the 12-week roadmap.

Why the method travels

Google’s local ranking works the same way in Halifax, Calgary, Winnipeg and Surrey: relevance, distance and prominence, with no way to pay for a better rank. So the work does not change city to city, only the competitive baseline does. What we run everywhere:

Geo-grid baseline scanning across 49 points in your service area, before any work starts.
Google Business Profile optimization: categories, services, attributes, hours and the strongest Local Pack signals.
Citation and NAP cleanup across Google, Apple Maps, Bing and the Canadian directories that feed them.
Review strategy built for a steady, recent flow, not a one-time push.
Local content per service and per service area, never templated city-swap pages.
Website and technical SEO: speed, structure and on-page signals that support the Profile.
AI search optimization so ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity can cite you as the local authority.
A monitoring platform with direct client access to live geo-grid data from day one.

What sets us apart from a typical SEO agency

Reports one city-level ranking number.
No baseline, so nothing to measure against.
Monthly PDF instead of data access.
Takes competing clients in the same market.
Open-ended contract, unclear deliverables.

Cities we hold detailed market pages for

We work nationwide, and we publish deeper market breakdowns for the areas we know best:

Not on the list? The method is identical. Book a market assessment and we will run your baseline first.

Sources

Google Business Profile Help, Improve your local ranking on Google: local results are based on relevance, distance and prominence, with no paid ranking, in every market.
Google Search Central, Do you need an SEO: be wary of SEOs who guarantee rankings.
Whitespark, Local Search Ranking Factors (2026 edition): Google Business Profile and review signals are among the highest-weighted Local Pack factors across North American markets.
BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey (2026): Canadian and US consumers weigh review recency and owner responses heavily when choosing a local business.
DataForSEO, SERP datasets (2026): local pack results vary by the coordinates attached to a query, so one national ranking check cannot represent a service area.

Figures are quoted from the published sources above and are directional.

Questions we get

Frequently asked questions

Do you work with businesses outside British Columbia?

Yes. We work with local service businesses across Canada and the United States. Our office is in Surrey, BC, and the method is identical wherever you operate because Google’s local ranking works the same way everywhere. We bill in CAD or USD.

How much does a Canadian SEO agency cost?

Managed local SEO generally runs $1,000 to $3,000 a month, depending on how competitive your industry and service area are. Projects like a website are priced separately. Our pricing is published rather than quoted behind a call, and the number that matters is whether one extra booked job a month covers it.

Is local SEO different in Canada than in the US?

The ranking system is the same. What differs is the directory landscape that feeds citations and a few consumer habits. Our citation and review work accounts for the Canadian sources; the core roadmap does not change.

Do you guarantee rankings?

No. Google advises businesses to be wary of any SEO who guarantees rankings. We commit to measurable map-visibility growth over the 12 weeks when the roadmap is followed, verified against your baseline geo-grid scan, with the data visible to you the whole time.

What if my city is not one of your market pages?

It does not matter. The market pages are just where we have published the most detail. For any city, we run your geo-grid baseline first, so the starting point is measured, not assumed, before you commit to anything.

Where to go from here

Next step

See your visibility map before you decide anything.

The free audit runs a geo-grid against your business, wherever you are in Canada, and checks the signals that count.

Book a free market assessment Get a free Map Pack audit instead

Or call 778-200-8661 · One client per industry, per area · No guaranteed rankings