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

Managed local SEO for a Vancouver service business generally runs $1,000 to $3,500 USD a month, depending on how competitive your category and service area are. Project work like a website is priced separately. The test that matters is whether one extra booked job a month more than covers the fee. Our full pricing is published, not quoted behind a call.

General SEO tries to rank a site for broad keywords nationally. Local SEO decides whether you show up in the Google Map Pack and on Google Maps when someone nearby searches for your service. For a business whose customers are in Metro Vancouver, local SEO is where the calls come from, so it is where the budget should go first.

Our office is in Surrey, and we work with businesses across Metro Vancouver and the rest of Canada and the United States. The method is identical wherever you are because the Map Pack works the same way. We hold dedicated market pages for the Metro Vancouver cities we know in the most detail.

No, and Google itself tells businesses to be wary of any SEO who guarantees rankings. What we commit to is measurable map-visibility growth over the 12 weeks when the roadmap is followed, verified against your baseline geo-grid scan. If the map does not move, you see that in the same dashboard you have had access to all along.

No. We take one client per industry, per area. Two businesses in the same category and city cannot both be moved to the top of the same grid, and an agency that takes both is charging two clients to compete with each other. When a Vancouver territory is taken we say so and decline.

Local SEO with Digital Handshake Media starts at $1,000 USD a month. That is our real starting price, not a vague quote. Most Vancouver plans cost $1,000 to $3,500 a month. The price depends on how hard your category and area are to rank in. Full pricing is published on our pricing page. You can see it before you ever get on a call.

A rank-tracking tool shows you the problem. It will not fix it. It can tell you that you are invisible three kilometres from your shop. It will not fix your Google Business Profile. It will not build your citations. It will not write your local content or manage your reviews. Digital Handshake Media is a done-for-you managed service, not software. We run the same kind of scan. Then we do the work the scan says needs doing, on a fixed 12-week roadmap.

Yes. Most of our Vancouver clients are service-area businesses. Think plumbers, roofers and HVAC techs who go to the customer, not a shop. Google lets these businesses hide their street address. They just list the towns they serve. Our geo-grid scan works the same way either way. It checks your rank from real points across the area you work in, not from a shopfront. See our guide on setting up a service-area profile the right way.

We work to a fixed 12-week roadmap. Week 1 is a full baseline geo-grid scan. Weeks 2 to 5 fix your Google Business Profile, the single biggest lever. Weeks 6 to 12 build prominence: we add reviews, clean up citations, and write local content that names your real neighbourhoods. Week 12 is a re-scan against the same baseline, so you see real movement, not a claim. We do not guarantee a ranking position, and Google itself warns against any agency that does. What we do guarantee is the process and the measurement.

You might be thinking, is this a real company or just a template site? The quick answer is yes. Digital Handshake Media has been founder-run since 2020 by Omar Alocozy, based in Surrey, BC. We hold a 5-star rating from 9 real Google reviews. You can read every one on our reviews page, not a picked few. Our phone number, 778-200-8644, rings a real person, not a call centre.

Expect a baseline before any work starts: a map of where you show up across your service area. Then a defined plan and timeline, results you can verify, and direct access to your data. Be wary of any company that guarantees a ranking, since Google says no one can pay for a better spot. A good one also takes one client per industry, so it is never working for two rivals.

Our engagements are built for businesses investing at least $1,000/month in growth. What you pay depends on how competitive your category is and how much of Metro Vancouver you want to cover. The pricing page shows what moves the number.

With us it runs on a 12-week roadmap: a baseline scan in week 1, Google Business Profile fixes next, then reviews, citations, and local content, and a re-scan in week 12 against the same baseline. We cannot promise a ranking or a date, because Google controls the results. What you get at week 12 is a clear read on how the map changed.

Not in BrightLocal's data. Google Maps named a tracked business in 66% of 200,875 local searches, versus 32% to 38% for ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews, and ChatGPT overlapped with Google's AI answers only 19% to 20% of the time. This is vendor research on a US, UK and Australian sample, not Canadian searches, so read it as a direction. Our post on how to get ChatGPT to recommend your business covers what to do about it.