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SEO Consultant Vancouver

Get your Vancouver company recommended by AI assistants and found on search engines

Vancouver ranks ninth in North America for tech talent in CBRE's Scoring Tech Talent 2026 report, published in August 2026, and many of its software, cleantech, and life sciences companies sell far beyond British Columbia. Their buyers in Seattle, Toronto, or London shortlist vendors through AI answers and search results before any call. I handle both as an independent consultant, and you work with me directly from the first audit onwards.

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15+
years in SEO
4+
years, average client engagement
100%
consultant-led strategy
30 days
notice, month to month

The services

AI and SEO services for Vancouver companies

Vancouver buyers, and the out-of-province buyers your company sells to, check AI answers and search results before they reach out. Both rest on the same pages, schema, and third-party mentions, so I treat them as one programme.

  • AI visibility

    The aim of AI visibility work is a mention for your company when a buyer asks Perplexity, Copilot, ChatGPT, or Gemini for vendors in your category, in Vancouver or anywhere you sell. Bing Webmaster Tools records 45.2K Microsoft Copilot citations over the six months to October 2026 for a Canadian tax software site I work on.

    I make your company descriptions match across your site, LinkedIn, G2, and Clutch, connect those profiles with schema, and earn mentions on the sources these assistants quote.

  • Search visibility

    The target is rankings for your commercial pages on the searches buyers run once they have budget, such as "SOC 2 compliance software" or "[your category] alternatives". For a Vancouver company selling into the US, that means competing on American searches from a Canadian base, which takes deliberate site structure.

    I fix crawl and indexing problems, separate Canadian and US pages where it helps, and concentrate internal links on the pages that bring in demos.

The outcomes

What good Vancouver SEO should bring a B2B tech company

Many Vancouver tech companies sell well beyond BC, so Vancouver SEO for them is about winning North American searches from a West Coast base. Judge the work on these outcomes.

  • Enquiries from buyers, not readers

    The measure is demo requests, trial sign-ups, and sales calls from buyers in the US and Canada who searched for what you sell. Visits from readers of a general blog post seldom reach a Vancouver sales team's pipeline.

  • Your highest-margin services rank first

    The product lines and services with the best margins should hold the strongest rankings, at the cost of leaving lower-value pages alone for a quarter. Concentrated authority on a few commercial pages beats thin coverage of everything.

  • Named in AI answers

    When a buyer in Seattle or San Francisco asks an AI assistant for vendors in your category, a Vancouver company should be able to make that list. Every month I check a standing list of buyer prompts and show where you stand against named competitors.

  • Pages that make the decision easy

    Pages that make the decision easy answer what a buyer would otherwise raise on a sales call: integrations, security standards such as SOC 2, pricing context, and customer proof with sources. A buyer comparing three vendors picks the one with fewer unanswered questions.

  • Measurement you can check yourself

    Your analytics, Search Console, and Bing Webmaster Tools stay under your control, with AI referrals reported on their own line. Marketing and sales can both trace an opportunity back to the page that started it.

Who I help

Vancouver's innovation clusters, and the search problems in each

The City of Vancouver maps eight innovation clusters in central Vancouver. Six of them match the kinds of companies I work with.

  • Downtown

    Downtown is one of the eight clusters on the City of Vancouver's innovation economy map, and the global technology names keep offices here: Amazon took The Post on West Georgia Street. Mid-size B2B firms here go up against global brands on the same searches, so their service pages need depth and proof a global competitor cannot copy. I build those pages around sector results and the questions enterprise buyers ask.

  • Yaletown

    Yaletown is one of the City's digital and creative clusters, with studios, agencies, and software firms that often win work through referrals and portfolios. Their sites tend to show the work without ranking for the services behind it. I build service pages that pair each capability with the projects that prove it, so a buyer searching for the service lands on the portfolio.

  • Gastown and Railtown

    The City describes Gastown as a social innovation, creative, and start-up cluster, and neighbouring Railtown as a mix of industrial, creative, and start-up businesses. Early-stage teams here gain most from getting foundations right while the site is still small: one page per use case, accurate schema, and consistent company details across directories, so search engines and AI tools understand the business from day one.

  • Mount Pleasant

    Mount Pleasant is another of the City's digital and creative clusters, and AbCellera chose it for its headquarters campus, as BC Business reported. Software and biotech firms in the area sell to specialist buyers who search with precise technical terms. I map those terms to pages written at the level an engineer or scientist expects.

  • False Creek Flats

    The City lists the False Creek Flats as its green, emerging, and innovation cluster, which makes it a natural base for cleantech firms. Their buyers include utilities, municipalities, and industrial operators who research technology options for months before a pilot. I build explainer, comparison, and project pages for each stage of that research.

  • Broadway Corridor

    The Broadway Corridor appears on the City's map as a medical and creative cluster. Health tech, medical device, and clinic businesses here face Google's strictest quality bar for health content, so every claim needs a qualified author behind it. I build medically reviewed pages with author markup, drawing on years of SEO work for a healthcare clinic.

Industries

Vancouver sectors I support

My Vancouver work covers software, cleantech, security, health, property, and professional services firms.

  • B2B SaaS

    Vancouver SaaS companies selling into the US compete with American vendors for comparison, alternative, and integration searches. I work with SaaS companies in edtech, fintech, healthtech, HR tech, and proptech, and in each the pages that convert sit closest to a buying decision. I build those first, then the schema and third-party mentions that get the product into AI recommendations.

  • Cleantech and climate tech

    Metro Vancouver has 260 cleantech businesses, and firms headquartered in the region raised US$5.4 billion between 2020 and 2024, according to Invest Vancouver. Many sell long, technical projects to utilities and industrial buyers. I build content that explains the technology to engineers and procurement teams, and go after the commercial searches once demand forms.

  • Cybersecurity and MSSP

    Vancouver security vendors and MSSPs sell to buyers who search by framework and service, such as SOC 2 readiness, managed detection and response, or PIPEDA compliance. Each needs its own page with proof, plus the company details AI assistants verify before naming a provider. Page-one keywords for a Canadian MSP client rose from 7 to 208 after a similar rebuild.

  • Health tech and life sciences

    Vancouver's life sciences sector includes companies such as AbCellera, and its buyers are researchers, clinicians, and procurement teams who search with precise terminology. Pages for these buyers need scientific accuracy and named experts, not marketing copy. My years of SEO work for a healthcare clinic carry over to health tech, where Google applies its YMYL standard.

  • Proptech and real estate

    Proptech platforms, developers, and property service firms in Vancouver compete for searches from buyers, landlords, and investors who compare options carefully before they commit. Each audience needs its own pages, from area guides to integration and pricing pages, with structured data that search engines and AI tools can read. I have run SEO for proptech SaaS and real estate clients in Canada and Dubai.

  • Professional services

    Referrals bring much of the new work to Vancouver law, accounting, and advisory firms, but the referred client still searches the firm before booking a call. What they find, thin practice pages or detailed ones, decides whether the referral converts. I build practice-area pages, adviser bios with schema, and plain-language articles on the questions clients ask.

The proof

Selected results, sourced

Three client results, each linked to a full write-up with numbers from Google Search Console, Google Analytics, or Ahrefs.

How it runs

How a Vancouver SEO engagement works

You get a usable output at every stage. Engagements run month to month and end with 30 days' notice from either side.

  1. Enquiry and discovery call

    Send a short note on what you sell and who buys it, and a reply follows within one business day. In a 30-minute discovery call we cover your sales cycle, the vendors you lose deals to, and which enquiries are worth chasing. If the work sits outside what I do, you will hear that directly.

  2. Proposal

    A written proposal follows within three business days, with scope, sequencing, timeline, and monthly cost. Work begins after your sign-off.

  3. Baseline

    Access to Search Console, Analytics, and Bing Webmaster Tools lets me capture day-zero rankings, sessions, and AI citations. The audit then works through site health, content gaps, competitors, and a standard list of buyer prompts in four AI assistants.

  4. Site structure and fixes

    One page per group of related searches stops your URLs splitting the same traffic. Crawling, indexing, template, and markup problems are fixed before new pages go live.

  5. Pages and links

    Service pages and articles are written or briefed around the searches your buyers run. Each link sits on a relevant, high-traffic page on a reputable site, arranged through a link partner of many years, and I approve each placement before it goes live.

  6. Review call

    Every month you get a report comparing rankings, clicks, demos, and AI citations with day zero. On the review call we agree what to push next and what to stop.

Consultant or agency

Choosing a consultant over a Vancouver SEO agency

Vancouver has a deep bench of SEO agencies, several of them strong. A consultant fits companies wanting one senior person accountable from audit to results, without paying for layers of account management.

Me Typical Vancouver SEO agency
Who you speak to Me, on every call Usually an account manager or strategist
Who does the work I run audits, strategy, and content planning; a link partner places links and I approve each one Depends on the account; ask who handles yours weekly
Commitment Month to month, 30 days' notice Ask about minimum terms before signing
Focus SaaS, cleantech, security, health tech, property, and professional services Often several industries at once
Limits Limited to what one person can do; bundled ads, social media, and design call for an agency More hand-offs before work reaches the specialist

Questions

Vancouver SEO questions, answered

Questions Vancouver founders and marketing leads raise before they bring in outside SEO help.

How much does SEO cost in Canada?

Canadian SEO pricing depends on how big the site is, how many products and markets it serves, and how much new content and outreach happen each month. My plans and their prices, in USD, are on my SEO pricing and plans page. Quotes are easier to compare once you line up what each provider will deliver, not just the fee.

Is SEO still worth it in 2026?

Yes, but the job is wider than it was. Buyers now meet vendors in AI answers and in search results, and both draw on pages that rank, structured data, and third-party mentions. Companies that work on both keep appearing on shortlists; those that stop at rankings drop out of the AI ones.

What should you look for in a Vancouver SEO consultant?

Look for sourced results, a clear answer on who does the work, and experience with companies that sell what you sell. Good case studies show where the numbers come from, whether that is Google Search Console, GA4, or Ahrefs, and give the before and after. Be wary of anyone promising a fixed ranking by a fixed date.

Can a Vancouver company rank in the US?

Yes, with a site structure that tells search engines which pages serve which country. That usually means US-focused service and comparison pages, hreflang where Canadian and US versions differ, and links from American publications in your sector. When a proptech SaaS client expanded into a new country, a domain migration and international structure grew search impressions 45.3%.

Do you work with companies across Metro Vancouver?

Yes. Everything runs remotely, so companies in Burnaby, Richmond, Surrey, North Vancouver, and the rest of Metro Vancouver work with me exactly as downtown firms do. Calls fit around your team's schedule, and an in-person meeting can be arranged on request.

When do Vancouver companies see SEO results?

AI answers tend to change first, usually four to six weeks after you ship entity and schema fixes. Commercial rankings in Canada usually start moving around month three, and US rankings take longer given the competition. Authority across a whole topic builds over six to twelve months.