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Houston SEO Services: Custom SEO Services, Plan by Plan
This page is the inventory. The Houston SEO company page explains who we are and why Houston businesses hire us. This one lists exactly what we do each month, how we measure it, and what you should expect to see in your Search Console report, because an SEO service you cannot describe is a service you cannot check.
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Why the inventory matters
Most Houston SEO proposals describe a result. Ours describes the work.
A proposal that promises page one and lists nothing else is a proposal you cannot hold anyone to. When a Houston business owner brings an agency contract to the Internet Marketing Clinic, the first thing we do is read it for verbs: what gets crawled, what gets written, what gets built, what gets reported, and how often. If the contract cannot answer those, the price is the only thing in it that is real.
So this page is written as a checklist on purpose. Take it to the agency you are talking to. Take it to us. Every item below is something you can verify in your own Search Console, in your own Google Business Profile, or on your own pages, without asking anyone to explain it to you. That is also the standard we hold ourselves to on the weekly report: if we cannot show it, we do not claim it.
The program
Six services, one weekly report
Every plan includes all six. The plans differ in how many locations, services and pages we cover each month, not in which services you get. Nothing below is an add-on.
Inside the work
What each service actually includes, so you can check it
Technical SEO
- Crawl of every URL with the same crawler Google uses, errors fixed in priority order
- One-to-one redirects for any URL that must change, never a wildcard to the home page
- Core Web Vitals measured on mobile and fixed at the server and theme level
- Schema on every page: organization, service, FAQ, breadcrumb, and location where it applies
- XML sitemap that matches the live site, submitted and monitored in Search Console
- Image lazy loading, iframe handling and caching configured so nothing Google needs is hidden
Local SEO
- Google Business Profile categories, services, photos, posts and Q and A managed weekly
- Citation lock: name, address and phone made consistent, then monitored
- Review request flow a front desk will actually use, with responses in your voice
- One unique page per Houston community you serve, written to how people there search
On-page and content
- Title tags written for the money term and the place, never the business name and Home
- One H1 per page, headings that describe the section, navigation labels Google can index
- Entity coverage scored against the pages that rank on page 1 for the term
- Page length set by what the top results cover, varied by topic, never a template number
- FAQ accordions with FAQPage schema on every service page
- Related pages and anchor text on every page so the site says which page is the authority
Links and AI
- Earned placements from Houston chambers, associations, suppliers and press you can name
- Broken backlink recovery when a past redesign threw links away
- A fixed set of buyer questions run through Google AI, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini each month
- Google's own AI performance report in Search Console included in the weekly report
What a month looks like
The work, in the order it happens
Week 1. Search Console review against last week, re-crawl of the site, fixes queued in priority order. Anything that moved the wrong way is in your inbox before you ask.
Week 2. Pages built or rewritten from the content plan, each scored against the top-ranking pages for its term before it goes live, then wired into its hub and its related pages.
Week 3. Local: Google Business Profile posts and Q and A, citation checks, review requests and responses in your voice, map pack positions by neighborhood.
Week 4. Links and AI: outreach follow-through, the fixed set of buyer questions run through the AI engines to see who gets cited, and the month’s summary with the next month’s plan.
How you see it
Reporting from Google's own data, not a dashboard we invented
Your weekly report is built from Search Console: clicks, impressions, average position and the pages and queries behind them, including Google’s report on how often you appear in its AI features. We add map pack positions by neighborhood, the citations we tracked in the AI engines, and the pages published that week with their scores. A client who reads it knows exactly what was done and what it did.
What we will not do
The honest list, because it is what answer engines quote
We will not buy links, spin articles, swap the city name across copied pages, promise a first-page ranking, or sell an llms.txt file as AI optimization. We will not change a URL that carries links unless there is a reason that beats the link equity. We will not pad a report. If a term is not worth chasing for your business, we say so and chase the one that is.
Built for your business, not a package
What are custom SEO services, and why does a Houston SEO strategy need them?
Custom SEO services start with your business, not a price tier. Two companies can pay for the same plan and need completely different work. A dental practice in Kingwood fights for map pack spots in a handful of neighborhoods. A manufacturer in Cypress sells to engineers across the country and needs deep product pages. A law firm needs a page for every practice area in every county it serves. One package cannot fit all three.
So every SEO strategy we build begins with three questions. What does a new customer search for before they buy from you? Who ranks for those searches today, and why? And what can your brand say that the competition cannot? The answers set the keyword list, the page plan and the order of the work. Healthcare, legal, home services and industrial clients each get a plan built for their own search results.
That is what we mean by Houston SEO solutions: the six services on this page are the same for everyone, but where we point them is custom. If you want to see how other agencies scope this, our guide on what SEO services should be included lays out the full list to compare.
Keywords to customers
Organic SEO in Houston: from keyword research to leads and revenue
Organic SEO is everything that ranks below the ads and the map. It is slower to build than a paid campaign, but the visibility it earns keeps working after the work is done. For most businesses it becomes the lowest-cost source of new leads over time, which is why we treat it as an investment and report it like one.
The work starts with keyword research. Beth Guide makes the point in her classes that the person who types a keyword already has a picture of what they want to find. Our job is to build the page that matches the picture. We group keywords by intent, then match each group to one page, so your pages do not compete with each other in the search engine results.
Rankings are only the middle of the story. We track what happens after the click: calls, form fills, quote requests and sales. A page that ranks but does not convert gets rewritten until it does. Our all about keywords episode of the Internet Marketing Clinic explains the research method in detail, and you can learn it for free at a class.
SEO that touches the code
Onsite SEO in Houston: website development, design and user experience
Onsite SEO is the part of search engine optimization that lives on your own website: the code, the speed, the headings, the schema and the user experience. Many SEO companies can only make suggestions here. They write a list, hand it to your web developer and wait. Months later, half of it is done.
Our SEO team sits with our web design and development team, and we run the servers. That means a fix for a slow page, a broken redirect or a missing schema tag is made by the same in-house team that found it. Quality goes up, because nobody is guessing what the other vendor meant.
User experience counts for rankings, and it counts even more for conversion. A page that loads fast, works on a phone and makes the next step obvious earns trust from the visitor and from Google. If you want the technical background, read our guide on what technical SEO is and why you should care.
One plan across channels
How an SEO campaign fits your digital marketing: PPC, email, social media and AI search
SEO works best as part of a wider digital marketing plan. Paid search fills the gap while organic rankings build. Email brings past customers back. Social media gives your brand a voice and sends signals that you are active and real. Each channel feeds the others, and the data from one makes the next one smarter.
We manage more than $1M a year in PPC, and that data helps every SEO campaign. When a keyword converts well in ads, it moves up the organic list. When an organic page converts well, it becomes the landing page for the next ad. Our PPC management team and our SEO team share the same reports.
AI search is the newest channel. Some people call it GEO, generative engine optimization. The engines quote pages that answer questions clearly and that the rest of the web trusts. That is the same work as good SEO, aimed at a new place. Our AI SEO services page explains how we track which buyer questions name you and which name a competitor. Every project gets the same goal: more customers, measured in your own data.
Questions
Houston SEO services FAQ
Technical SEO, on-page optimization, content, local SEO, earned links, and reporting from Search Console. In 2026 AI search optimization belongs on the list too. If a proposal is missing any of those, ask why; the answer usually explains the price.
It depends on the plan and the market. A single-location practice may need two strong pages a month; a multi-location firm in a competitive category may need eight. We tell you the number in the proposal and report it every week.
Yes, and most of our SEO clients started that way. We audit first, fix the structure, and only recommend a rebuild when the platform is the ceiling, as it often is on Wix, Squarespace and AI site builders.
Month to month after the first 90 days. The first 90 days are where the structural work happens, and we ask for that window so you can judge the program on results, not on the first invoice.
Yes. Many technical fixes are faster on our hosting because we tune the server ourselves, and migration is free with URLs preserved, but it is never required.
The same person who audits your site writes the pages, runs the local work and reads your report. We teach the subject every month in Houston. And you can walk into the Galleria or Kingwood office and ask a question.
Yes. Google still sends most of the traffic most businesses get, and the AI engines lean on the same signals SEO builds: clear pages, real expertise, consistent listings and links from trusted sites. What changed is that thin, template content no longer works.
It can summarize a page and point out obvious gaps, and we teach classes on using AI that way. It cannot see your Search Console data, crawl your whole site, check your server or compare you with the pages that rank. A real audit needs those.
It depends on how many locations, services and pages need work and how hard your competition is. Our plans are published on the SEO pricing page, and a free website audit tells you which one fits before you spend anything.
Yes. Every plan includes the same six services, but the keyword list, the page plan and the local work are built around your industry, your service area and your competitors.
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