SEO & web development for US local businesses

More calls. Better clients. Less guesswork.

Code to Conversion is a US-based SEO and web development agency for local service businesses. We rank your business in the Google map pack, build fast websites that convert search traffic into booked jobs, and give you a weekly scoreboard that shows which zip codes are calling.

Local SEOWeb developmentGoogle Business ProfileAEO / GEO
Booked into Q1 2026 · Taking 2 new clients per month
Client inbox · live
128 leads this week
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Marcus L.
Roof leak repair, Charlotte, NC
Called4m
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Denise P.
Emergency HVAC, Austin, TX
Booked12m
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The Reyes family
Bathroom remodel, Sacramento, CA
Form27m
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Coldbrew Café
New site & booking, Portland, ME
Form42m
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Dr. Talia Weiss
Dental cleaning, Tampa, FL
Booked51m
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Northside Diesel
Fleet maintenance, Boise, ID
Called1h
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Karen O.
Landscape design, Raleigh, NC
Form1h
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Marco V.
Water heater install, Denver, CO
Called2h
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Bright Path Learning
Website redesign, Providence, RI
Form2h
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Sarah T.
Pediatric intake, Nashville, TN
Booked3h
The core loop

Search intent in. Booked work out.

Every month, thousands of people in your service area search Google for what you do. Most owners have no idea which searches they show up for, which ones the competition owns, and which ones convert to real revenue. We fix that.

Our local SEO process pulls the actual queries your customers type in Cypress, Tampa, Raleigh — the neighborhoods you care about — matches them to the pages and Google Business Profile signals that rank, and tracks each result down to the tracked call and booking that came out the other side.

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Sunset Ridge Renovations
4.7 · 218 reviews · Open now
2
Bayline Home Co. — your business
4.9 · 342 reviews · Open now
Qualified
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Gulf Coast Remodel Group
4.6 · 156 reviews · Closes 6 pm
4
HomeFix Contractors
4.3 · 94 reviews · Closed
Calls this week
29▲ +18
Cost per booked job
$41▼ $41
New booking
Bathroom remodel, Cypress
Coverage · Local pack rankings

One service area. Every nearby search.

We grid your city into 54 checkpoints and track exactly where you appear in Google's local pack when someone standing on that block searches for what you do. Below: what changed for a Houston HVAC client between month one and month five of local SEO work.

Before

Month 1 · Avg rank 8.2 · Visible in 22% of grid
Top 3 4–7 8–20 Not visible

After

Month 5 · Avg rank 2.4 · Visible in 94% of grid
"Air conditioning repair near me" — Cypress → Katy → Spring Branch
How it works

Our simple 4-step process.

No complicated onboarding, no month-nine surprises. Here is exactly what happens after you book the first call.

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1

Audit

A 54-point grid scan of your service area, a full technical crawl, and a competitor teardown. We measure where you actually stand.

2

Roadmap

A prioritized punch list — what moves the number, what to fix, what to leave alone. Plain English, ordered by impact.

3

Execute

Weekly on-page, technical, GBP and content work. Every change tracked, signed off before it goes live. Small consistent moves.

4

Show

A five-line Friday recap and a monthly call. Rankings, calls, forms and jobs booked — attributed by query and neighborhood.

Services

The full path from search to sale.

Six disciplines under one team, moving on one weekly rhythm. Pick the two or three you need most; the rest is here when the map starts moving in your favor.

On-page SEO

Keyword-optimized page titles, meta descriptions, H1–H3 structure, service-page copy that reads like a person wrote it, FAQ schema, image alt text and internal links tuned to the searches your customers actually make.

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Off-page SEO

Local citations across the sixty directories that still matter, chamber-of-commerce links, editorial mentions in outlets your customers read, and industry backlinks. No PBNs, no bought reviews, no cheap directory dumps.

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Technical SEO

Core Web Vitals under Google's thresholds, XML sitemaps that actually validate, resolved crawl errors, structured data that Search Console stops flagging, and page speed under two seconds on mobile 4G.

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Website development

Custom-built websites in Webflow or Next.js — no cookie-cutter WordPress themes, no bloated page builders. Fast, SEO-friendly, mobile-optimized sites your own team can update without opening a support ticket.

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Local SEO Strategy

Google Business Profile, local citations, review flow, on-page and local link building — run as one connected engagement. The full-stack local SEO service most of our clients start with.

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Conversion optimization

Call tracking with call recording, form heatmaps, session replays, and A/B tests on the two headlines and one CTA that move the number. No quarterly full-site redesigns dressed up as "conversion work."

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Industries we serve

SEO built for the way your industry actually works.

Local SEO for a med spa is not the same as SEO for a general contractor. We specialize in five verticals where our local SEO, AEO and GEO process compounds fastest — each with its own playbook, its own metrics, and its own dedicated landing page.

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Recent work

Local businesses we helped rank.

Three quick reads on how the SEO and site work paid back in booked jobs. Full case studies available on request — most owners want a walkthrough on a call anyway.

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HVAC, Houston, TX

Bayou City Comfort

A twenty-year HVAC business that was invisible outside of two zip codes. Six months of local SEO and GBP work put them in the top-3 map pack across all of west Houston.

+184%
Tracked calls
$28
Cost per booked job
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Dental, Sacramento, CA

Park Family Dental

Rebuilt the website on Next.js, rewrote every service page for local search intent, and set up a review-request flow that added 240 verified reviews in year one.

+96%
Patient forms
4.9★
Google rating
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Landscaping, Phoenix, AZ

Márquez Landscape Co.

Fixed the mobile experience, wired the Google Business Profile to the booking calendar, and shipped location pages for every neighborhood in Maricopa County.

2.1×
Booked jobs
1.4s
Mobile load time
Why it works

Stop paying for busywork.

Most local SEO dashboards look like this: monthly reports full of impressions, keyword-rank screenshots and no phone number to point at. Here's the difference in what actually shows up on Friday.

A leaky presence

  • Impressions and "reach" numbers counted like they pay bills.
  • A Google Business Profile filled out once in 2021 and left alone.
  • A website that opens fine on desktop but drags on 4G mobile.
  • Reviews that never get a reply — good, bad or one-star.
  • A quarterly PDF full of jargon nobody on your team reads.
  • An agency that goes quiet the moment you ask what changed.

A clear path in

  • Tracked calls tied to the neighborhood and search query they came from.
  • A Google Business Profile updated weekly with new service photos.
  • A website that loads in 1.4 seconds on a parking-lot signal.
  • Every review responded to within one business day, no exceptions.
  • A five-line Friday recap that you actually read to the end.
  • A direct line to the humans doing the work on your account.

What changes when the system starts working.

Calls from organic search Median across 42 local business clients, month 1 to month 6
+147%
Keywords in the top 3 Local pack and organic search combined
+124%
Form submissions Contact, booking and quote requests
+96%
Google Business Profile actions Calls, direction requests, website taps
+64%
Cost per booked job Blended across paid and organic channels
−41%
Engagements

Pick the pace that fits your next chapter.

Two ways in, plus a build option. Both start with the same 30-minute call so we can figure out whether we can honestly help before you write a check.

Clarity Sprint

$1,850one-time

A three-week audit that leaves you with a plain-English roadmap you can act on — with us or without us.

  • 54-point grid rank scan of your service area
  • Full technical SEO audit and prioritized fix list
  • Competitor teardown of two direct rivals
  • 90-minute walkthrough with your team
Book the sprint

Build + Grow

Custom

A new website built to convert, followed by ongoing SEO. Scoped to your business — we don't quote a site sight-unseen.

  • Custom Webflow or Next.js website build
  • Copywriting in your brand's voice
  • Six months of Steady Growth included
  • Handoff docs your operations lead will thank you for
Scope a build
FAQs

Frequently asked questions.

Book a 15-min call.

If your question isn't in the list, book a short call and we'll answer it. No sales pitch, no proposal template.

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How quickly will I see SEO results?

Local pack movement usually shows in weeks three to six if your Google Business Profile is a mess (most are). Real revenue lift — the kind that changes hiring decisions — lands somewhere between month three and month six. Anyone promising faster is either paying for it in ads and hiding the receipt, or lying.

Do you work with businesses outside the US?

Not today. We stay narrow on purpose — US local search is a specific game with specific tools (Google Business Profile, Local Service Ads, review platforms your customers actually check), and staying inside it is how we keep the rate honest and the work sharp.

What if I already have a website I like?

Great. Nine times out of ten we can keep it. We'll audit what you have, fix the technical SEO issues that are dragging rankings, and add the conversion pieces that are missing. A full rebuild is a separate conversation only if the platform itself is fighting you.

Are there long-term contracts?

Three months to start — that's how long it takes for the SEO work to stop looking like effort and start looking like results. After that, it's month-to-month. Cancel with 30 days' notice and keep every asset we built for you.

Who actually does the work on my account?

Two people — a lead strategist (one of our two senior partners) and an SEO and web development generalist. No offshore content mill, no rotating juniors, no account manager who knows your name and nothing else about your business.

Do you take on paid ads or social media too?

Google Local Service Ads only, and only for existing SEO clients. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok — no. Not because they don't work, but because good social work takes a different team, and we'd rather send you to a specialist than pretend to be one.

Get in touch

Let's make your good work easier to find.

Tell us where you are on the map and what you're trying to move. If we're not the right fit, we'll point you to someone who is. That happens more often than you'd think.

Remote across the US · main studio in Austin, TX
hey@codetoconversion.co
(512) 555-0142
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A few details, then we'll take it from here

No sales calls. One reply from a human within one business day.
Notes from the field

The notes we'd send a friend.

Short essays on how local search actually works — written for owners, not marketing directors. New piece roughly every other Wednesday.

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Local SEO · 8 min read

The Google Business Profile signal that turns browsers into callers

It isn't reviews. It isn't posts. It's the one field owners keep skipping — and how it produced a 34% lift in direction requests in six months of paired-account testing.

Aug 12, 2025
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Web development · 6 min read

Your homepage — no one is reading it like you think

How to watch your own website's session recordings without wanting to redesign the whole thing. Six patterns worth watching, three worth ignoring, and one that always signals a bounce.

Jul 28, 2025
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Measurement · 5 min read

What to measure when traffic isn't the goal

Impressions are a vanity metric for anyone who has to answer their own phone. Here are five metrics that aren't — plus a spreadsheet you can steal for Monday's team standup.

Jul 14, 2025
What clients say

What it feels like when the system works.

Map pack was the game changer

★★★★★4 May

We stopped guessing. Within four months the right calls were coming from the right neighborhoods and we finally hired the second crew we'd been putting off for two years.

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Dana Ruiz · Ruiz & Sons HVAC, Houston TX

Finally a scoreboard I trust

★★★★★21 Feb

Three agencies before. Code to Conversion is the first team that showed me a scoreboard I actually understood in the first week — and the first that made changes I could point to.

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Michael Park · Park Family Dental, Sacramento CA

Booked jobs doubled by month four

★★★★★14 Sep

They fixed the mobile site and wired it to our Google Business Profile in three weeks. Landscaping jobs doubled by month four. We're already discussing year two.

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Elena Márquez · Márquez Landscape, Phoenix AZ

Cited in ChatGPT for our city

★★★★★8 Aug

A client mentioned they found us by asking ChatGPT for commercial designers in Denver. That's when the AEO work stopped being a talking point and started landing us jobs.

PR
Priya Ramanujan · Ramanujan Studio, Denver CO

Ranking held through a core update

★★★★★12 Nov

Our map pack position held even after a Google core update while two direct competitors slipped. That's the difference between hobby SEO and the real thing.

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Marcus Hollis · Hollis & Co Interiors, Austin TX

Consultations tripled from search

★★★★★27 Oct

Consultations tripled from organic search once the neighborhood pages shipped in month three. Referrals kept coming too — the two channels don't cannibalize each other.

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Lena Kaisa · Kaisa Design Studio, Nashville TN

GBP overhaul was the moment it clicked

★★★★★22 Sep

The Google Business Profile rebuild in month one was the moment I finally understood what an optimized profile actually looks like — and why ours had been leaking leads for two years.

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Dr Talia Weiss · Weiss Family Dental, Tampa FL

No jargon, just the numbers

★★★★★16 Jun

No SEO jargon. Just tracked calls, cost per booked job, and the neighborhoods they came from. Refreshing to work with a team that respects a small business owner's time.

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Marco Villa · Villa Plumbing, Denver CO

Real service photos moved the needle

★★★★★30 Apr

Turns out real service photos on the GBP were the missing piece. Direction requests up 34% in six months, without spending an extra dollar on ads.

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Denise Powell · Powell Air Conditioning, Austin TX

Best month came in month five

★★★★★28 Aug

Month five was our best month on record for direct-from-Google bookings. The compounding they promised at the intro call actually compounded — I have the receipts.

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Reese Park · Coldbrew Café, Portland ME

Rankings held through a Google update

★★★★★5 Jan

Rankings held through a Google core update while three competitors slipped off the first page. That's the number that mattered most to me.

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Karen Ostrowski · Ostrowski Landscape, Raleigh NC

Would recommend to any local business

★★★★★4 Jun

For a fleet maintenance shop in Boise, I didn't think local SEO would move the needle. Wrong. Six months in and we're turning down inquiries.

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James Thornton · Northside Diesel, Boise ID
Where we work

Local SEO services across the United States.

Code to Conversion serves local businesses in these metro areas and their surrounding suburbs. Don't see your city? We probably still work there — the map keeps growing, and every neighborhood in these regions is fair game.

Serving all 50 states with local SEO and website development. Ask about your city →