SEO Consulting for Agencies
Most creative, media and technology agencies—even some digital agencies—don’t consider search engine optimization during their own website design and development process. No matter the reasons, it’s a costly mistake—and the very reason I offer SEO consulting for agencies.
With a background in design, I understand that best practices in SEO and UX can feel counter to unbound creativity. But here’s the thing: you’re running a business. And that business should not rely on referrals alone; In fact, your new business streams should be incredibly diverse if you want your agency to grow and scale.
Organic search can be a powerful channel for business development, but your agency needs to show up in the search results. Ideally, you’d appear above your competitors for specific search phrases relevant to your niche category of service, industry and/or geography served.
Conversion Rate Optimization
Beyond SEO to pull prospects in, we’ll also tackle conversion rate optimization (CRO). That is, once they land on your homepage or interior page, how are we moving them along an intended path to take action? This could mean initiating a chat, filling out an interactive form, subscribing to your email list, or something else.
What are we offering online that your competitors are not? Are we giving prospects a reason to return? Thinking about the entire journey from the prospect’s perspective—not through your own agency’s lens—will uncover significant opportunity for improved rate of conversion from visitor to prospect to lead to opportunity.
My passion is in uncovering the gaps within an organization’s web presence—and providing solutions to address those challenges. Since selling my 14-year old digital agency, I have been the IA & SEO consultant to Facebook for its developer-facing web properties, as well as to NASA, and creative agencies throughout the country.
Rest assured that as part of our work together, we’ll optimize your agency’s site for organic search and conversion.
After 15 years of starting, scaling and selling my own digital agency in New York, I love helping other agency leaders to do the same. I work with established, mid-level agencies in the creative, media and tech industries, typically with $2-25M in annual revenue, looking to level-up and committed to investing in the significant growth of their organization.
White Hat SEO Consulting for Creative, Media + Tech Agencies
Competitive Research & Analysis
Let’s find out which keywords drive qualified traffic to your competitors first. Together we’ll develop a comprehensive SEO strategy to outpace and pull prospects away from them.
SEO Strategy & Execution
Clients are often surprised by my findings and the number of opportunities for improvement. By leaving no stone unturned—and bringing creativity to the optimization process—the white hat SEO results seen by business and nonprofit clients are rooted in the following:
- Competitive Research & Analysis
- Complete Website Assessments
- Keyword Research & Analysis
- Information Architecture (IA) / Sitemaps
- On-page SEO
- SEO Content Deck Development
- Copywriting / Copyediting
- Citation Cleanup
- Citation and Link Building
- 301 Redirects / URL Mapping
- Ongoing Content Development and Optimization
FAQs
While there is no way to guarantee results with white hat (or light gray) SEO techniques, the methodology I use as an SEO consultant has a proven track record and is sustainable because it’s rooted in best practices for long-term success.
Darker gray hat and black hat SEOs use tactics that vary in degrees of ethics and legality. However their “guaranteed results” cannot be sustained long-term, as Google will ultimately discover them and penalize your site—which will be very difficult from which to recover. In some severe cases, or in the case of “negative SEO”, there’s a good chance your site will fall out of rank and can even be taken down.
The timeline of each SEO project varies (typically 3-4 weeks for small projects and 2-3 months for large projects), while ranking on Page 1 for targeted keywords depends on numerous variables—including industry type, competition level, Google updates, browser type, user location and behavior, and more. Based on experience over 15 years, I’ve seen sites climb to Page 1 in as little as 48 hours or take as long as 6 months+. It’s important that we set our expectations accordingly at the onset or our work together—and remember that white hat SEO is a long-term initiative.
Transparency is paramount to a successful relationship, so I will educate your internal or external resources on on-page SEO, content development (length, frequency, etc.), link building and more.
The SEO Process
Once we decide to work together, we’ll collaborate every step of the way. I will be conscious of your team’s time and ensure that our reviews are efficient and productive. Low hanging fruit will be addressed first so we can get to work quickly on the critical elements.
Starting with keyword research and analysis, we’ll define which search terms to target—based on relevance, volume of monthly searches, industry competition and trends in long-tail search. We’ll discuss which terms might make great blog posts and other content pieces, which can be created by one of my resources, or by your in-house team.
Next, I’ll handle on-page SEO for every page on the site—and you can decide whether you’d like me to handle implementation, or if your in-house team has the bandwidth and capability (in order to reduce costs).
We’ll discuss citations and link building in order to define a link building strategy that makes sense for your agency.
Organic, Direct, Referral
Qualified prospects discover your agency online through various channels: organic search, paid search, social media, directories and other referral sites. Together, we’ll define KPIs (key performance indicators) that will keep all digital marketing efforts on track.
Kelly has become a trusted advisor as we take things to the next level. She’s been instrumental in helping to optimize agency efficiencies and in streamlining workflows within the firm, successfully implementing solutions, and developing new business and valuable partnerships. I’ve recently entrusted her to reposition our company and am excited about the limitless potential for which she’s helping to pave the way.
Are you looking to transform or scale your creative or tech agency? Do you want stronger positioning, more ideal clients, happier teams, and higher profit margins? Let’s hop on a call.
The reason I hired Kelly versus the hundreds of other consultants out there is that when it comes to scaling an agency, she’s actually done it. She built her own highly successful agency piece by piece, and that kind of experience is invaluable. But not only does she share her knowledge; she holds me accountable – and I’m already seeing results. If you’re an agency owner that’s looking to grow, I highly recommend her.
