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SEO Services ยท South Africa & USA

Be found when customers are searching to buy

Search engine optimisation for businesses in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban and across the United States. We target the searches that bring buyers, not just traffic. Audits from R2,800, monthly plans from R3,800.

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Technical SEO

Speed, crawlability, mobile experience, schema markup and clean structure. The foundation Google requires before anything else works.

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Local SEO

City-level visibility for South African businesses: Google Business Profile, local landing pages, reviews and citations that put you on the map.

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Content that ranks

Pages and articles written around what your customers actually type into Google, with buying intent baked into every target keyword.

Our approach

Intent beats volume, every time

A keyword with 70 searches a month from people ready to hire beats one with 10,000 searches from students writing essays. We chase the searches with money behind them: near me, pricing, best, hire.

  • Month 1: full audit, technical fixes, keyword map for your market
  • Months 2 to 3: on-page optimisation, local pages, content production
  • Months 4 to 6: authority building, reviews, refinement from real ranking data
  • Every month: a plain-English report showing rankings, traffic and enquiries

Two markets, two playbooks

South Africans search by city, Americans search near me. Competition in SA is thin enough to rank in months. The US is a longer game with a bigger prize. We run both playbooks at once, so one content budget earns rankings in two markets.

Frequently asked questions

How long does SEO take to work?

Expect early movement in 2 to 3 months and meaningful results in 4 to 6 months for local searches in South Africa. Competitive US terms take longer. Anyone promising page one in a week is selling something else.

What is local SEO?

Local SEO makes you visible when nearby customers search for what you do, for example web design Johannesburg or plumber Cape Town. It combines your Google Business Profile, local landing pages, reviews and citations.

Do you guarantee rankings?

No honest agency can guarantee a specific position, because Google decides that. What we guarantee is the work: technical fixes, content, and monthly reporting that shows exactly what changed and why.

How much do SEO services cost?

Monthly SEO plans start from R3,800 per month depending on market and competition. A once-off full site audit with an action plan is R2,800.

Can you do SEO for both my South African and US customers?

Yes, that is our specialty. We run city-level local SEO for South Africa and national campaigns for the US from the same strategy, so the two markets reinforce each other instead of competing.

Free Proposal

Tell us what you need. We reply the same day.

Fill this in and it goes straight to our founders on WhatsApp. No call centres, no waiting, no obligation. You get a plain answer on what it would take and what it would cost.

  • Same day response during business hours
  • Honest pricing in rand, published right on the site
  • No lock-in contracts on monthly plans

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