This practice had been open and serving clients well for years. The work was good. The client experience was good. But online, they barely existed. A handful of impressions per month. No ranking keywords worth noting. No technical foundation that search engines could properly read or trust. The website was there, but it was invisible.
The business owner had tried a few things on their own over the years. Posted more consistently for a stretch. Updated some website copy. Nothing moved. They came in frustrated, not because they didn't believe SEO worked, but because they'd spent time on it and couldn't see what the problem was.
We started with the FOUND Report, which identified three significant issues pulling visibility down: crawlability problems that were keeping pages from being indexed properly, missing schema markup that prevented the site from appearing in enhanced local search features, and keyword targeting so broad it wasn't connecting to what actual people were searching for in their specific market.
The build covered technical cleanup first, then keyword-mapped content aligned to real search intent in the Denver area therapeutic massage space, then a Google Business Profile overhaul, then citation cleanup across directories that had conflicting or incomplete business information. Each layer built on the one before it. That's not a metaphor. That's how the compounding works.
"The calls started coming from people who had never heard of us before. That had never really happened. Someone would say they found us on Google and I would think, that's working? That's actually working."
Practice Owner / Therapeutic Massage / Denver Area